Jazz Breaking News: Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Phronesis, and Soweto Kinch added to London Jazz Festival Line-up
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The London Jazz Festival, held in association with BBC Radio 3, has just announced a number of new names to be added to the line-up for this year’s festival, which takes place from 12-21 November.
Included in the line-up are two performances by the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra; Phronesis; the première of Soweto Kinch’s new project The New Emancipation and performances of newly composed scores to Dracula and Spark of Being, a re-imagined version of Frankenstein.
On 14 November, trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg and percussionist Marilyn Mazur appear with Phronesis, led by Danish bassist Jasper Høiby, in the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
They will be followed on 15 November by the John Scofield Trio re-imagining Miles Davis’ late classics with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO), directed by Tommy Smith, at the QEH. Electronic producer Murcof and pianist Francesco Tristano will be performing a mix of acoustic improvisation and electronic processing in the QEH on 16 November, followed on 17 November by the SNJO’s second performance, this time with the Gary Burton Quartet.
On 18 November in the QEH, Soweto Kinch premières his latest project, The New Emancipation, which explores the modern relevance of the emancipation story, and on 19 November French pianist and singer Arthur H makes his London Jazz Festival debut. Finally, on 21 November is Frankenstein v. Dracula: Dave Douglas & Gary Lucas. Dave Douglas and his Keystone band have composed an original score to Spark of Being, a film by Bill Morrison that re-imagines the Frankenstein story, while guitarist Gary Lucas has composed a solo guitar score to Enrique Tovar and George Melford’s 1931 Spanish film version of Dracula.
The newly announced performances are in addition to the already announced London Jazz Festival line-up, which includes Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman, Esperanza Spalding, Sonny Rollins, Martial Solal, Paco de Lucia, and Hugh Masekela.
--Nivedita Sarnath
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