Coming up
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Gilad Atzmon and Strings
Gilad Atzmon Quartet:
Gilad Atzmon saxophones
Frank Harrison piano
Yaron Stavi double bass
Asaf Sirkis drums
Sigamos String Quartet:
Ros Stephen violin
Emil Chakalov violin
Rachel Robson viola
Laura Moody cello
One of the great jazz albums Charlie Parker with Strings is 60 years old and changed Gilad Atzmon’s life – ‘more organic, poetic, sentimental and yet wilder than anything I had ever heard before … the moment when I fell in love with jazz’ he writes.
In his latest album the versatile, richly talented saxophonist and clarinettist pays tribute to the iconic ‘Bird’ but is no slavish imitator.
Atzmon’s band and the Sigamos String Quartet blend classics by Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael with sparkling original material that seems to recreate Parker’s pioneering free spirit.
‘Maybe because he’s such a wild card himself, saxophonist Atzmon plays Charlie Parker with a perfect mix of bluster and vulnerability.’ - The Independent
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
7.30pm
Tickets £16, £13, £10, Prom £6
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Gilad Atzmon
'Gilad Atzmon's marvelous evocation of Charlie Parker's legendary 1949 Verve recording with strings somehow succeeds in conveying Bird's mercurial genius, as well as accurately re-presenting what counts as some of the most profoundly beautiful music ever made ...'
'As his bluesy bebop improvisations on alto sax shoot across the bows of the supremely composed Sigamos String Quartet ... it's as perfect a jazz marriage as you could wish for.'
- Independent on Sunday
