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Thursday 9 September, 6.15pm & 7.30pm (also Sunday 12 Sept)
INDO BASS TRIO
Indo Bass Trio explores the relationship of rhythm and melody as an energetic flow between musicians, instruments and listeners. The double bass, well versed in Jazz and Groove, enters the Indian soundscape to explore sonic possibilities. Micro tones within tones create zones for the rhythm inside the rhythm of a heart beat.
Manjit Sing Rasiya – Tabla, Ben Hazleton – Double Bass, Clem Alfred – Sitar
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Friday, 10 September, 6.15pm & 7.30pm in the Atrium at Kings Place
ONE MINT JULEP
Led by vocalist Emine Pirhasan, One Mint Julep is a new quartet. It is made up of four of London's most talented musicians who have come together to rediscover the classic sound of jazz and blues from the early thirties. Emine simultaneously evokes the sound of smokey thirties jazz clubs and draws on contemporary influences.
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Saturday, 11 September, 6.15pm & 7.30pm in the Atrium at Kings Place
ROSANNA SCHURA TRIO
Vocalist and songwriter Rosanna Schura draws influences from artists such as John Martyn to create her unique sound and subtle
approach to jazz and blues. Her beautiful vocals weave together with piano and bass accompaniment. Her voice rises above sprawling jazz sounds, and, with impeccable phrasing, brings out the humour and hurt of
jazz and blues classics.
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Sunday, 12 September, 6.15pm & 7.30pm
INDO BASS TRIO
Indo Bass Trio explores the relationship of rhythm and melody as an energetic flow between musicians, instruments and listeners. The double bass, well versed in Jazz and Groove, enters the Indian soundscape to explore sonic possibilities. Micro tones within tones create zones for the rhythm inside the rhythm of a heart beat.
Manjit Sing Rasiya – Tabla, Ben Hazleton – Double Bass, Clem Alfred – Sitar
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Spitz Blues, 12 September
J.D. Smith is a London based solo Blues/Punk/Rockabilly slide player who has been trying to bring Rockabilly back from the brink and allow this amazing music to gain a larger audience. With an idea, a guitar and a heap of Punk rock thrown in J.D. is hoping to wake people up to the idea that a solo act doesn't have to mean folk, it can also be dangerous again.
"Sounds like an Elvis for the modern era" - The Music Magazine
myspace.com/stuartjamesdurdensmith and jukeboxriot.com
St Pancras Room, 7.30pm, £4.50
Book now through Kings Place
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Spitz Blues, 12 September
JOHN CRAMPTON
Having wowed the Kings Place Festival audience last year, John Crampton is back. Self-taught on guitar and harmonica, John creates a big and powerful sound of hard-hitting and danceable uptempo blues and bluegrass. John plays slide and bottleneck on a 1930's National Steel Guitar with fantastic harmonica and thumping stomp box to provide a driving rhythm. He is a one-man blues explosion.
" ...raucous but technically skilled blues mainly based around his flair on national steel (with and without bottleneck) or, on two tracks banjo and harmonica." Blues in London on Kings Place Festival, 2009
myspace.com/johncramptonmusic
St Pancras Room, 8.45pm, £4.50
Book now through Kings Place
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Spitz Blues, 12 September
After a year and a half in San Francisco, Parkbench is back in town with more 'darkly sophisticated slabs of lonesomeness' (Time Out). Be ready for brutal blues incantations with sudden musical u-turns and plenty of wall-of-sound Pink-Floydian improvisations. Frontman Martin Wissenberg is joined by a full line-up – David Villanueva (Starman); Franck Alba (ex-4AD outfit Piano Magic); Che Albrighton (Bikini Atoll); and Bhutan native Samanta Tamang on backing vocals.
'There is jazz here, and blues, and country, and roots, and nothing that you can pin down to a genre or a style! But it's all good! Takes you in direction after direction.' - Blues Matters (2008)
myspace.com/parkbenchfromthechinamen
St Pancras Room, 10pm, £4.50
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Spitz Folk, 24 September in Hall Two
SONGDOG
"Terrific Stuff!" - Robert Wyatt
Songdog are a trio (Lyndon Morgans, Karl Woodward, Dave Paterson) who combine acoustic and electronic instruments to create soundscapes for singer/songwriter (and former award-winning playwright) Lyndon Morgans's vignettes on life, love and loss. New fans include Bruce Springsteen, who used their track 'Days of Armageddon' for "walk in music" on his last European tour and personally requested a copy of the last album.
"... Their music is dark and sinister and beautiful and Lyndon's songs are by turns sexy, scary, funny, creepy, heartbreaking and usually always brilliant." Allan Jones (Editor), Uncut
"Building otherworldly lovesongs with acoustic guitar, a jagged drawl and lush accordions, Songdog's album unfurls with grace" Rock Sound
"One of those life-changing albums where you'll remember forever where you were when you first heard it" RocknReel (5*)
songdog.co.uk/us.htm
Hall Two, £9.50
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Spitz Folk, 15 October in Hall Two
PARKBENCH
After a year and a half in San Francisco, Parkbench is back in town with more 'darkly sophisticated slabs of lonesomeness' (Time Out). Be ready for brutal blues incantations with sudden musical u-turns and plenty of wall-of-sound Pink-Floydian improvisations. Frontman Martin Wissenberg is joined by a full line-up – David Villanueva (Starman); Franck Alba (ex-4AD outfit Piano Magic); Che Albrighton (Bikini Atoll); and Bhutan native Samanta Tamang on backing vocals.
'There is jazz here, and blues, and country, and roots, and nothing that you can pin down to a genre or a style! But it's all good! Takes you in direction after direction.' - Blues Matters (2008)
myspace.com/parkbenchfromthechinamen
Hall Two, £9.50
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Spitz Folk, 3 December in Hall Two
CELLOMAN
The phenomenon that is Celloman comprises a genre-defying and highly unorthodox, yet virtuosic, radical approach. Ivan Hussey attacks the electric cello with true rock 'n' roll fury, yet the band's highly dynamic sound springs from a range of traditions, from Middle-Eastern to ambient, funk and Western classical. Perhaps the best testimony to this is Celloman's extraordinarily diverse history of collaborators – Mick Jagger, Duran Duran, Soul II Soul, etc.
celloman.co.uk
Hall Two, £9.50
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Spitz Jazz, 9 October in Hall Two at Kings Place
UNITED VIBRATIONS
United Vibrations - 'United Vibrations' means 'out of many comes one' - everything feeds into the music. Their music is 12tone. A multi-synthesis of Rock, Afro Beat, Punk, Funk, Hip-Hop, Drum 'n' Bass, Jazz and much, much more. UV play unique music that draws on the rhythms of the world to form a highly infectious sound that knows no boundaries.
Yussef Dayes (drums), Kareem Dayes (bass/vocals), Wayne Francis (sax/vocals), & Ahmad Dayes (trombone/vocals).
"London has given rise to some of the most influential musical genres over the years, but nothing will have prepared you for, arguably, its freshest and most vibrant yet .... United Vibrations' band of multi-instrumentalists is behind the city's liveliest new sound." - LIME MAGAZINE
United Vibrations "mix ska with raw punk energy and blistering jazz harmonies" - TIME OUT
myspace.com/unitedvibrations
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Spitz Jazz, 27 November in Hall Two at Kings Place
JIM MULLEN AND FRIENDS
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS IN JAZZ
Feat. Ben Hazleton (bass), Shabaka Hutchings (sax)
Glaswegian jazz guitarist Jim Mullen has one of the most distinctive and recognizable styles of his or any generation – both within the U.K. and beyond. Picking exclusively with his thumb in the tradition of Wes Montgomery, yet reaching dizzying heights of precision and tempo, Jim Mullen is a truly astounding live performer. On this special occasion — the day after his 65th birthday — Jim will be sharing the stage with some of the new-comers of the London jazz scene, setting us up for a fascinating musical 'meeting of the minds'.
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