Jazz In The Round

Barrier-busting jazz/ contemporary music binge with Jazz on 3 presenter Jez Nelson. Every last Monday.

Jazz In The Round continues on June 25th, starting at 6pm, with a DJ set in the bar.

Troyka headlines, Howard Riley to play an exclusive solo set, and we begin the night with Sack O' Woe Qnt.

Troyka
Chris Montague (guitars & loops), Joshua Blackmore (drums) & Kit Downes (Organ)

London-based Tryoka join Polar Bear & Portico Quartet to explode from the capital’s fertile jazz scene. A multi-textured trio with a febrile imagination where no role is pre-defined, their music twists and mutates in an ongoing dialogue inspired by a shared love of Aphex Twin, the angular world of iconclastic New York saxophonist Tim Berne and the blues-jazz-rock groove of legendary Steely Dan and Billy Cobham guitarist Wayne Krantz.

Howard Riley
(piano)

Riley's career has seen him work frequently in a duo context, notably with John McLaughlin, Elton Dean, the American pianist Jaki Byard (whose previous duo partner was Earl Hines), and Riley's only serious rival as the leading free jazz pianist of the 1960s and 70s, Keith Tippett. He featured regularly in groups with prominent avant garde musicians of the 1970s including Trevor Watts, Tony Oxley and John Stevens. Riley has performed and recorded his own trio, often with Oxley and Guy, since the 1960s. As a composer, he contributed works to the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra as a founding member, and for the Nash Ensemble and New Jazz Orchestra. Riley was an early exponent of jazz education and has taught at Goldsmiths College since 1975.

Sack O' Woe Quintet
Mark Crown (trumpet), Lucas Dodd (alto sax), Leon Greening (piano), Adam King (bass) & Steve Brown (drums)

“This night is the sort of thing I've wanted to be involved in for a long time,” says MC, Jez Nelson. “The idea is to bring together bands and artists from different scenes, genres, cultures and generations. Our only watchword is quality. We considered calling the night ‘Jazz Snobs Eat Shit’ but decided it might limit our PR. But you get the idea. The whole thing happens in the round, so there's a real intimacy between musicians and audience. Every night we have 3 acts - a headliner, a brand new act, and a one-off solo spot. I talk to the artists about whatever is on their mind - and dust down my Blue Note and impulse collections for a DJ set in the bar at the end of the night.”

NEWS: Trio VD, Robert Mitchell and Valerie Etienne are all confirmed for July.