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| 0 | LONDON: Cafe Oto |
|---|---|
| P | Friday 20th August, 2010 |
| N | 8:00pm |
Sunny Murray: The Father of Avant-Garde Drumming
Sunny Murray was one of the early avant-garde's most inventive and influential drummers, doing a great deal to establish the role of the drums in free improvisation. Although Murray could swing as hard as anyone, he often abandoned the drums' traditional timekeeping role. Instead of playing a steady beat, he might punctuate and color behind the soloist's lines, or engage in dialogues with the rest of the ensemble, commenting and conversing with an open-ear sense of give and take.
LINKS
http://www.myspace.com/sunnymurray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwL4FXUTyPk
John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, John Wall, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, and many others.
Tony Bevan is an improvising virtuoso on Soprano, Tenor and Bass saxophones. He has appeared numerous times with Derek Bailey's international symposium of improvisers, COMPANY, released acclaimed CDs on Bailey's INCUS label (including the Mercury Music Prize nominated "Bigshots") as well as recording with Bailey himself (he is a member of Bailey's "Limescale" quintet). He has toured extensively in Europe and America. Writer Ben Watson has written of him as "one of the unsung heroes of modern British music".
Bevan has played and record with Derek Bailey, Sunny Murray, Otomo Yoshihide, Luc Ferrari, Fourtet, Matthew Bourne, Henry Grimes, Steve Reid, Bobby Few, J Spaceman, Sonny Simmons, Chris Corsano, Jeb Bishop, Michael Zerang and many others.
