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MONDAY 14TH / WEDNESDAY 16TH / FRIDAY 18TH NOVEMBER
Wednesday 16th November 7.30 p.m. Tickets: £15/£12 (students)
Available from www.jazzcds.co.uk or 0207 724 2389
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| 16TH NOVEMBER 2011 |
LONDON VOCAL PROJECT WITH KENNY WHEELER |
£15 CASH ON THE DOOR |
£12 CASH ON THE DOOR |
Pete Churchill's London Vocal Project
 Kenny Wheeler (trumpet and flugelhorn), Norma Winstone (voice), Mark Lockheart (saxes) backed by the Nikki Iles Trio ( Nikki Iles, piano, Steve Watts bass, James Maddren drums).
MIRRORS SUITE by Kenny Wheeler
plus the world premiere of a new commission for the choir by Gwilym Simcock featuring the stunning new vocal talent Kwabena Adjepong
plus support from
 Christoph Stiefel - solo piano
Brilliant, exciting, rhythmic Swiss pianist explores isorhythms.
"The richness of variations of Stiefel’s music is immense and the rhythmical shifts that evolve like a kaleidoscope are never mechanical but rather like a breathing organism.” Jazzthing
A unique opportunity to hear Kenny Wheeler's extraordinary settings of poems by Stevie Smith, Lewis Carroll and W. B. Yeats. First commissioned for a performance in Italy over fifteen years ago, the 'Mirrors' suite was subsequently featured at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1998.
“Rooted in the gospel tradition, this is an outfit with exceptional potential — the hushed harmonizing was a delight… more please!” Clive Davis The Times ****
"Iles is one of the most refreshing and promising figures to have emerged in the UK in recent times, with a liquid sound and supple, obliquely resolved phrasing as an improviser" The Guardian
Directed by composer, arranger and educator Pete Churchill, the London Vocal Project is composed of students and alumni from the various jazz courses at London's Conservatoires.
From a solid foundation in Gospel and Groove music, the London Vocal Project has developed into an impressively versatile ensemble with a constantly expanding repertoire. Since its inception in January 2008 it has rapidly become recognised as the leading contemporary jazz-vocal ensemble in the country.
A unique and welcome addition to the Jazz scene, the London Vocal Project has not only a clear identity but the requisite vision and diversity to attract a new vocal repertoire from jazz composers. In addition to regular concerts in venues around London, recent highlights for the group include singing with Bobby McFerrin at the Barbican in 2010 at the British premier of his album, VOCAbuLarieS, Dame Cleo Laine and the late Sir Johnny Dankworth at the London Jazz Festival in 2009
Tickets: £15/£12 (students)
Available from www.jazzcds.co.uk or 0207 724 2389
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