FRED THOMAS - 'DICK WAG'. A REWORKING OF MUSIC BY RICHARD WAGNER

Presented by: Vortex Jazz

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0	LONDON: Vortex
P	Monday 5th February, 2018
N	8:00pm

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Fred Thomas turns his fertile mind to the music of Richard Wagner. He himself plays bass and includes clarinettist and saxophonist Ewan Bleach, known from many of our Gypsy/East European nights.

Pianist tbc

‘Dick-Wag: a Tribute to Richard Wagner’ is a new jazz trio dedicated to a notorious Bavarian composer many idolise and more despise. Comprised of the most unlikely collaborators, this tribute band attempts to reconcile itself to opera’s most depraved, politically divisive and love-hated little man. With huge dramatic scenes boiled down to discreet miniatures, each expressed on a single piece of paper and treated like found objects as a jazz musician might, the resulting improvisations teeter surreally between the playful lyricism of swing and the abstraction of modernist prepared piano grooves.