After an absolute corker of a double bill last week to a packed house,  LUME opens its doors once again this Thursday to Cath Roberts’ amazing septet: Quadraceratops!!

Cath formed Quadraceratops while studying for a Masters at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011. In June 2013 the septet played at Jazz In The Round @ The Cockpit. They supported Get The Blessing at Camden’s Jazz Cafe as part of the 2012 London Jazz Festival, and have appeared at numerous London jazz nights including Jazz at the Salisbury, Jazz at the Waterline and SE Collective at the Amersham Arms. The band briefly left the capital in June 2012 to visit Efpi Records in Manchester and perform at Freedom Principle. The current set of music is inspired by insects, fairground rides, underground tunnelling machines and fictional serial killers.

 

Cath Roberts (alto sax)

Henry Spencer (trumpet)

Tom Ward (tenor sax)

Magnus Dearness (trombone)

Kit Massey (keyboards)

Olly Blackman (drums)

We are excited about the third gig in our series of original and improvised music… which is only a few days away!

We asked Olie to write a few words about his quartet:

‘The Olie Brice Quartet came about through my desire to combine my love of playing freely improvised music with my love of playing swing and melody. As a composer I’m interested in how much freedom I can leave for the improvisers in my band while still providing enough information to make the piece of music a definite ‘song’.

For this concert I will be joined by 3 of my favourite musicians – George Crowley on tenor sax and clarinet, Alex Bonney on trumpet and pocket trumpet and Tim Giles on drums’.

“Brice makes the entire body of his bass sing. He has the ability to deliver a fractal line that is as purposeful as any by the great jazz bassists, but to do so within an entirely abstract setting” – Brian Morton, Point of Departure