Ah yeah, two brilliant brilliant large ensemble gigs back to back!! Special times!!
Menagerie @ Out Front, Derby
Menagerie at Baby People, part of Out Front’s The Week. Photo by Edward H Kitchen.
Out Front was brilliant! We had a great Menagerie gig, even though we had two deps (Alice Eldridge on cello, and Cath Roberts on bari sax depping for trombone) everyone rose to the music to great effect and the band felt like it really took a step forwards!
Cubitt arts picnic video!
FUNDAY CUBITT 2016 from Benjamin Owen on Vimeo.
Upcoming gigs Autumn/Winter 2016
September 17th – Cath Roberts Large Ensemble @ Lancaster Jazz Festival, The Round, The Dukes, Lancaster
Very excited to be playing as part of a great ten-piece ensemble, playing new music written by Cath as Artist In Residence at Lancaster Jazz Festival!
September 28th – Ti/om @ IKLECTIK Art Lab, Waterloo
Another outing for the duo with Tim Fairhall, supporting Sloth Racket‘s first album tour.
October 23rd, 5pm – Madwort’s Menagerie @ Baby People Studios, Derby
The incredible Corey Mwamba’s Out Front project is hosting an amazing week of music, very privileged to be playing as part of that with my strings & winds sextet.
November 14th – LUMEkestra @ IKLECTIK Art Lab, Waterloo
This new ultra-large ensemble collective collaboration takes off at IKLECTIK. Sharing the bill with Ripsaw Catfish & Entropi, should be a classic LUME night.
November 13th – Overground Collective @ The Vortex, London (EFG London Jazz Festival)
Paulo’s oversized big band gets another outing, back at the Vortex. This will be mega…
Ma/Ti/Om review by We need no swords
Very cool review of Ma/Ti/Om by We need no swords! Favourite quote “warty belch”…! 😀
Ma/Ti/Om review in The Wire
Ti/om live at V22 in Forest Hill
Yeah!!! Raw Tonk!!!
Ti/om: pic.twitter.com/rCVoHa0656
— Raw Tonk Records (@RawTonkRecords) August 5, 2016
Ma/ti/om review
Nice review of the Ma/ti/om review from Salt Peanuts:
“The tension between the three musicians, as the delicate balance, add a strange dramatic effect that deepens the dark, suggestive atmosphere of this piece. Impressive debut.”.
Manchester Jazz Festival 2016
Much fun to be had in Manchester, and sunnier than in London too!
Making the necessary preparations @ThePortico @AdamFairhall @ManJazzFest pic.twitter.com/azAAn9o3Y1
— Ƭom Warɗ (@themadwort) July 29, 2016
Improv and psychology in @ThePortico earlier today @ManJazzFest, with @AdamFairhall @themadwort @WilsonGraemeB… pic.twitter.com/p5NIHRZAjY
— Cath Roberts (@cathrobots) July 29, 2016
Improvisation time for @AdamFairhall & @themadwort @ThePortico #mjf2016 @ScienceCity2016 @WilsonGraemeB https://t.co/QnLPS2K31d
— Manchester Jazz Fest (@ManJazzFest) July 29, 2016