LONDON: Ryan's Bar

Wednesday 8th January, 2025

8:00pm

Event information

A new collaboration presenting original music and favourites by Sun Ra, John Zorn and more..

Alex Paxton (trombone)
“a Brit who defies every conceivable genre boundary…an extremely modern and future-oriented style.”
Paul Hindemith Prize winner 2023
"a highly innovative...of exceptional creative imagination and musical energy, packed with life force unlike anything else.”
Ivor Novello British Composer Awards. Winner 2021
“Unbridled joy…sophisticated, passionate music full of pulsating energy and stylistic diversity.“ Ernst von Siemens Composition Prize 2023
https://alexpaxtonmusic.com/work

Sam Eastmond (trumpet)
Sam Eastmond’s “artful arrangements lurch from Ellingtonian swing to colliery brass band, laced with fragments of Hollywood scores, surf rock and klezmer music.” (The Guardian), Eastmond is known for his avant-garde big band The Spike Orchestra with works “that explore musical spaces in multiple dimensions – instrumentation, textures, dynamics, and style.” (Avant Music News) and his collaborations with John Zorn.
Eastmond has created “something of a niche as a big band arranger for John Zorn, a quite unique position” (Peter Slavid) he has recorded albums in Masada Book Two, Masada Book Three, and The Bagatelles book, as well as his own compositions for Zorn’s Tzadik Label.
https://www.sameastmond.com/single-project

Fergus Quill (double bass)
Double bassist, bandleader and composer, Fergus Quill, is the Musicians’ Company 2022 Tina May Jazz Award winner – an award given to an exceptionally talented young British jazz musician following an audience vote. A Leeds Conservatoire graduate and founder of avant-garde jazz ensemble, Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band, and equally experimental The Fergus Quill Trio, Fergus also arranges and performs with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) and the NYJO Jazz Exchange.
https://fergusquill.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-lancaster-jazz-festival