2012-05-06 21:28:30

I appear to have had no news for 2 years

...so here is some from London Jazz...

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 2010-09-27 14:39:33

Jazz On 3 Broadcast

On October 4th there'll be a broadcast of a new piece I wrote for a new quartet featuring myself, Chris Batchelor on tpt and electronics, Dave Wickins on drums and, from New York, cellist Okkyung Lee. I also play a duo with each player (including "Peace Warriors" by Ornette Coleman with Dave) and we also improvise as a group. We all had a great time.

 2010-04-19 19:56:11

BRUBECK NOMINATION AT PARLIAMENTARY JAZZ AWARDS

Liam's album Brubeck has been nominated for Best Album at this year's Parliamentary Jazz Awards to be held on 19th May 2010 at The Houses of Parliament.

 2009-05-28 10:57:32

Salfaaden festival, August 28th, Big Air

If anyone's in Austria in August.....I'm depping for the marvellous Myra Melford in Chris Batchelor's Big Air band....I love this band, great writing and amazing improvising.....with Chris on trumpet, Orren Marshall on tuba, Jim Black on drums and Andrew D'Angelo on alto.
Details will be here eventually...http://www.jazzsaalfelden.com/2009/ViewPage.asp?Site=JAZZ-SAALFELDEN09&PageID=177&lang=199

 2007-06-16 17:28:58

Brubeck Trio Record

Following the success of the trio's tour in Spring 2006, a new trio record featuring various workings and re-workings of the music of Dave Brubeck is to be released on Basho soon. Myself, Dave Whitford and Dave Wickins are to record at the end of this month, egged on by Mr. Brubeck himself who has said he is "honoured" to have us record his music yet. Needless to say, he hasn't heard it yet.

 2007-06-16 17:25:34

Nomination for Best Instrumentalist, BBC Jazz Awards

Liam has been nominated for Best Instrumentalist in the BBC Jazz Awards. The other two nominees are a couple of musicians I've never heard of.

 2006-10-06 19:52:12

OCTOBER TOUR LIAM NOBLE AND JULIAN ARGUELLES DOUBLE BILL

This tour will promote two albums – Liam Noble’s Romance Amongst the Fishes (SRCD13-2), released on Basho Records and launched at the Purcell Room in London at the 2005 London Jazz Festival, and Julian Arguelles’s Partita (SRCD 17-2) released this autumn.

Both albums were recorded in New York and continue a constant theme at Basho of collaborations between British and North American players. Liam Noble’s Romance Among the Fishes, recorded in August 2004 (with Phil Robson, Drew Gress and Tom Rainey), came out of a commission for the 2004 Cheltenham Jazz Festival. The music demonstrates Liam Noble’s highly original approach to composition. Tom Rainey’s highly original percussive style and Drew Gress’s virtuosic and responsive bass playing were Liam’s inspiration for the work. With his long-term associate guitarist Phil Robson, whose versatility complements Liam’s inventiveness as an improvising pianist, the quartet have created pieces that demonstrate a strong musical empathy between players whose backgrounds and influences are very diverse. The music has developed a style and energy of its own since its original airing at the Cheltenham Festival where John Fordham described it in the following way:
'The sharp-end American bass/drums duo of New York downtowners Drew Gress and Tom Rainey were mixed into another cocktail on Monday, playing the music of the British pianist Liam Noble, with Phil Robson on guitar...the percussively algebraic finale Jitters brought inventive collective jittering of a clarity, focus and density that sounded like the music of regular partners'. John Fordham, The Guardian
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