Killer Shrimp, Jazz for Free, Lon Jazz Fest, Nov 21st.
aaamusic | On 11, Nov 2010
KILLER SHRIMP
with
JAMES MORTON’S PORKCHOP OMAR PUENTE
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Barbican Free Stage
From 3pm Sunday 21st November 2010 As part of the London Jazz Festival in association with BBC Radio 3 |
Co-led by trumpeter Damon Brown and saxophonist Ed Jones, two of Europe’s leading jazz musicians and composers, Killer Shrimp kicks of an afternoon of high energy performances as part of the London Jazz Festival’s Jazz for Free programme.
Killer Shrimp perform tracks from their recent release, Whatever Sincerely; Tales from the Baltic Wharf, which, as Jazzwise magazine says is “an impressive piece of work with an abundance of great themes and impressive improvisation”. And of Brown’s solo on the closing track, the Guardian points out it “could trade phrases with Wynton Marsalis without blinking”.
Both are forceful, creative players and deliver expressive, powerful playing akin to the hard bop swing tradition of the 50’s, yet with a thoroughly 21st Century approach. An exciting live band, Killer Shrimp’s dazzling compositions take in funk, Latin, reggae, and drum’n’bass as well as driving swing jazz.
The temperature stays high with the punchy, hard hitting soul jazz of dynamic saxophonist James Morton and his fiery band of Bristolians.
Providing the climax to an afternoon of UK jazz with a band featuring pianist Alex Wilson is virtuoso violinist, Omar Puente whose solos fire the imagination and move the spirit.
The Barbican Centre
Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS