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| 0 | LONDON: Cafe Oto |
|---|---|
| P | Tuesday 5th June, 2012 |
| N | 8:00pm |
Different solo/duo and then trio configurations with Steve Noble super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed drumming, Alex Ward's heady leaps of logic and frenzied bacchic ritual on Clarinet and the ever inventive Oren Marshall on Tuba.
STEVE NOBLE / Drums
Steve Noble is London's leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O'Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more.
In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90). He was featured in the Bailey's excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book ‘Improvisation; its nature and practise’. He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins).
ALEX WARD / Clarinet
Alex Ward seems to be very busy at the moment playing loud, skronking electric guitar in groups such as NEW (with Steve Noble and John Edwards), Dead Days Beyond Help (with Jem Doulton, where he sings as well), and with the ecstatic agonies of his own free jazz quartet Predicate (with Tim Hill, Dom Lash and Mark Sanders. H can also be spotted on clarinet in duos with Steve Noble and Dom Lash...
Perched precariously on top of a bar stool, Ward's intensely concentrated clarinet playing draws deep on his own immersion in free improvisation and reference the whole history of his instrument, invoking the experimental extensions of John Zorn and Anthony Braxton, the studied elegance of Jimmy Guiffre, the Ellingtonian rubato of Harry Carney, the classicism of Mozart, and even the prehistoric pipes of frenzied bacchic ritual.
OREN MARSHALL / tuba
A pioneering player of acoustic and electric tuba Oren Marshall crosses between the classical-jazz-improvised-world music and has collaborated with the likes Of Bobby Mcferrin, Derek Bailey, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Moondog, the Pan African Orchestra and the London Philarmonic.
