Andy Sheppard Quartet

Jedyny koncert w Polsce!

Jeden z najwybitniejszych brytyjskich saksofonistów i kompozytorów jazzowych ? Andy Sheppard, wyrusza w trasę koncertową po Europie promującą jego najnowszy album ?Surrounded by Sea? wydany nakładem, legendarnej już, wytwórni fonograficznej ECM.

21 lutego, na jedynym koncercie w Polsce, będziemy mieli przyjemność gościć kwartet Andy Shepparda, któremu towarzyszyć będą znamienici instrumentaliści: norweski gitarzysta ? ?mistrz elektronicznego krajobrazu? Eivind Aarset, wirtuoz kontrabasu Michel Benita oraz niezwykły, pomysłowy i żądny przygód perkusista Michele Rabbia.

Press quotes for Surrounded by Sea (Andy Sheppard Quartet):

?a soundtrack to getting lost in the stars? ????1/2 Downbeat
?translucently beautiful? ???? The Guardian
?career-defining moment for Sheppard? ???? Jazzwise
?poignant serenity? f f f f Télérama
?lyrical flair with an ethereal tone? Financial Times
?a quiet masterpiece? London Jazz News
?titanic power with ineffable beauty? Jazz Times
?beautiful crafts and a vision to capture the ineffable? Aftenposten
?lyrical magic? BR Klassic

Wykonawcy:
Andy Sheppard ? saksofony
Eivind Aarset ? gitara
Michel Benita ? kontrabas
Michele Rabbia ? perkusja

?Andy Sheppard ? tenor and soprano saxophones
A succesful recording artist, bandleader and composer (for film, TV and theatre), Andy Sheppard is one of a few Bristish jazz artists to have made a significant international impact. He has worked with an astonishing range of musical partners and is remarkably, one of a very few solists to have played in the big bands of all three of the greatest post-war jazz composers, Carla Bley, George Russell and Gil Evans.

?Eivind Aarset ? guitar and electronics
Eivind Aarset can be heard on ECM discs with Nils Petter Molvaer, Marilyn Mazur, and Arild Andersen ? and also appears on new albums by both Jon Hassell and Arve Henriksen, respectively ?Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street? and ?Cartography?. Aarest?s own discs include, ?Electronique Noir? (Jazzland, 1998) often instanced as a key document of electro-jazz, both for its deployment of club grooves and its swathes effects.

?Michel Benita ? double bass
Born in Algeria, Michel came to Paris in the early ?80s, where he made series of intense working relationships ? with Dewey Redman, Erik Truffaz and Rita Marcotulli among many ? and has worked closely with Hilton McConnino, the scenographer for fashion house Hermes, on fashion sjows all over the world. Steeped in jazz, he loves folk and country music, which has shaped his latest album Ramblin?.

?Michele Rabbia ? drums
Born in Turin, Michele travelled to the United States in ?89 where he had the opportunity to study with Joe Hunt and Alan Dawson. Back in Italy, he moved to Rome and began his career performing and recording with many collaborators icluding Andy Sheppard, Rita Marcotulli, Jan Bang and Eivind Aarset and many others. His Collaboration also extended to dance, literature, visual arts and architecture. He has performer in the most important European Festivals, China and the United States.