This Spring, the Swiss/UK collaborative sextet MoonMot will tour in Europe to mark the release of their album ‘Going Down The Well’, out on 14th February on Swiss label Unit Records. LUME’s Dee Byrne worked with MoonMot trombonist Simon Petermann to book the dates, and the result is a fantastic twelve date tour:

17 February – NQ Jazz, Manchester
18 February – The Vortex, London | buy tickets
19 February – The Lescar, Sheffield
20 February – FUSE Art Space, Bradford
21 February  – The Bebop Club, Bristol
1 March – Liverpool International Jazz Festival | buy tickets
8 March –  Metropol, Arnhem (NL)
9 March – Hot Club, Gent (BE)
10 March – Amsterdam (NL)
12 March – Off Bar, Basel (CH)
13 March – BeJazz, Bern (CH)
14 March – Kiste, Stuttgart (DE)

You can pre-order the album from Bandcamp now, on LP, CD and digital download. See you on tour!

We’ve got a treat in store for you this week, with talented Welsh double bassist Huw V Williams playing two sets of improvised music with his quartet – featuring some heavyweight names on the UK scene.

Winner of the 2012 Yamaha Jazz Scholars Prize from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Huw draws on a rich combination of his Welsh roots, his training in Jazz and the contemporary creative music scenes in London, Brooklyn and Manhattan. With a fast growing CV lit up by the names of some of his heroes including Jim Black, Michael Blake, Jason Rebello, Neil Yates and long time mentor Huw Warren, Huw V Williams is building a beautiful bass filled world of free music and primal creativity.

Huw V Williams double bass
Alec Harper tenor saxophone
Dave Schulman clarinet
Simon Roth drums

See you there! 8.30pm £5 entry…

After an amazing gig last night for the EFG London Jazz Festival, LUME decamps to The Harrison for our last gig of the year. We are very pleased to welcome Alex Roth’s Otriad.

OTRIAD

In 1941, three Jewish brothers went into hiding in Poland’s Naliboki Forest to escape capture by the encroaching Nazi troops. By the end of the Second World War, they had led over 1,200 other Jews to safety, establishing a tight-knit community that resisted the Germans on one side and their co-operating Belarussian forces on the other. The Bielski Otriad, as the group became known, defied the fate of so many of their kind by refusing to give up hope even under the bleakest conditions.

It is this strength of community spirit that inspired the formation of Alex Roth’s Otriad, itself centred around three brothers of Polish-Jewish ancestry. Nick, Alex and Simon Roth (playing saxophones, guitars and percussion respectively) grew up to the sound of their mother’s violin and piano, quickly taking up the instruments that would eventually allow them to develop a unique musical understanding together. This three-way dynamic has been pivotal to each of their careers thus far, forming the core of several groups along the way (including the ten-piece electro-acoustic chamber ensemble Sefiroth).

Otriad is completed by two musicians whom Alex has met through studying for his MA at the Royal Academy of Music: James Opstad, who has been the bassist in Alex’s trio (with Simon again) since 2010, and saxophonist Joe Wright (half of the electro-acoustic improvising duo Wright/Roth, which has been active for over a year now).

Alex’s music for Otriad is an expression of the relationships that have formed between these five musicians, moving between folk-like melodies, free-form improvisation, electro-acoustic soundworlds, complex rhythmic structures and richly evocative harmonies.

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Support set with:

Nick Roth (sax)
Alex Bonney (trumpet)
Hannah Marshall (cello)

See you at the Harrison, 28 Harrison Street, Kings Cross, WC1H 8JF.

Doors 8pm, music starts from 8.30pm. Entry £5.

This week LUME is back at Hundred Crows Rising, 58 Penton Street, N1 9PZ… and we’re happy to present:

ACROBAT

Will Bartlett – organ
Pat Davey – drums
Kristian Borring – guitar

The warmth and presence of the classic organ/guitar groups are heard alongside new textures and stylish improvising. Compelling grooves and melodic clarity invite the listener inside one of the most exciting sounds in Jazz today.

Collective effort is the key in Acrobat. All members contribute compositions, before spending time arranging and work-shopping the material together to create a sound that is original to Acrobat. This subtle, supportive interaction allows the music to grow from sparse colours and intimate dialgoues to rugged sounds with electrifying solos: an evolving and involving experience.

Acrobat is closely connected with the newly formed SE Jazz Collective, indicating its position as part of the exciting and constantly evolving new jazz scene in London.

Recorded at Whippet Studio by Jules Jackson, the new EP showcases some of the original material Acrobat has been performing over the past year.

£5 entry. Doors 8pm.

Sam Gardner’s Art of Three have had to cancel their gig this Thursday… BUT we are please to announce that Rob Milne’s Double trio will be performing instead. That’s two trios for the price of one – pretty good deal we think!!!

The Double Trio is led by Rob Milne (bass clarinet/tenor sax/clarinet) and features Seb Silas (tenor sax), Jj Stillwell and Jamie Benzies (double basses) and Dave Story and Angus Bishop (drums).

The focus is free improvisation, full of colours, textures, interplay and powerful grooves inspired by Rob’s unusual, dark compositions.

See you at the Harrison, 28 Harrison Street, Kings Cross, WC1H 8JF.

Doors 8pm, music starts from 8.30pm. Entry £5.

This week we return to the Harrison with a very special gig: drummer Sam Gardner is bringing his trio ‘Art Of Three’ down from Leeds! Come along and give them a warm London welcome.

ART OF THREE

Krzysztof Urbanski – Sax
Sam Vicary -Bass
Sam Gardner – Drums

‘A fresh new trio featuring heavy riffs, grooves and swing with soul. The group draws inspiration from jazz legends such as Kenny Garret as well as more modern artists like Kendrick Scott and Terence Blanchard. They combine jazz with funk to create groovy music with a warm sound.’

This gig is half of a London/Leeds gig swap. For the other half, LUME’s Dee Byrne is taking her group Entropi up to Leeds to play at Sam’s jazz night at the Grove Inn. For more info on that, head over to the FB event.

See you at the Harrison on Thursday! 28 Harrison Street, WC1H 8JF. Five minutes’ from Kings Cross.