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Chant/Edwards/Prevost w/ special guest N.O Moore.

Thu 09 January 2025, 7.45PM

Standard £15 / Vortex Members £7.50 / Students & UC beneficiaries £6

Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 set(s) of music

 

Line-up:

Tom Chant – Saxophone

John Edwards – Double Bass

Eddie Prévost – Drums

N.O Moore – Guitar (second set only)

 

About

Tom Chant (b. Dublin 1975) is a saxophonist and composer from London living in Barcelona. Tom focuses mainly on free improvised music which he has been involved in for 30 years.
In the mid 90’s Tom started attending Maggie Nicols’ Gathering sessions and continued for many years with Maggie giving Tom his first concert. He has worked with Eddie Prévost and John Edwards since 1997 and with them has recorded four records and toured festivals around the world. He has recorded with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Otomo Yoshihide, Angharad Davies, Sharif Sehnoui, Lê Quan Ninh, Susana Santos Silva, Ferran Fages and many others, while playing concerts with a host of well known and not so well known musicians. Tom’s current practice concerns the entropy of technique and the spaces that this leaves for new vocabularies and dialogues.

 

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, Roscoe Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Louis Moholo, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and countless others.
“I think John Edwards is absolutely remarkable: there’s never been anything like him before, anywhere in jazz.” – Richard Williams, The Blue Moment

 

Eddie Prévost “Prévost, meanwhile, was simply miraculous; it was fascinating to watch him and to compare his approach with that of a Kern or a Nilssen-Love. I can only say that he was possessed of an uncanny, burning intentness that navigated the ensemble through passages of stark, sculpted beauty, grave concentration and full-on, bristling energy.” ‘ Blue Tomato concert ‘— Richard Rees-Jones

‘An excellent release from one of the finest percussionists around, jazz or otherwise.’ review of Prévost; solo CD ‘Collider’ by Brian Olewnick — Squidsear.

“Prévost’s free drumming flows superbly making use of his formidable technique. It’s as though there has never been an Elvin Jones or Max Roach.” – Melody Maker

“Relentlessly innovative yet full of swing and fire.” – Morning Star
 

N.O. Moore is an electric guitarist with a parallel interest in electronics and drum machines. As an improviser, he has played with people such as Eddie Prévost, John Butcher, Rachel Musson, John Edwards, Sue Lynch, Alan Wilkinson, Steve Noble, and Steve Beresford. He can now be heard on a number of recordings, including Nous (with Prévost and Jason Yarde) on Matchless, and The Secret Handshake with Danger (with Henry Kaiser, Binker Golding, Olie Brice, and Prévost) on 577. He has recently launched the DXDY Recordings label to present improvised and electronic musics: dxdyrecordings.com

Moore is interested in the relationship between automation and autonomy, and how this affords fabrications of human sensibility and affect. His first album of purely electronic music will be released by Orbit577 later in 2021.

‘Moore shifts fluidly from argumentatively fractured jazz licks to spacey atmospherics to mad cat hisses; the appositeness of his contributions belies the sparseness of his recorded discography’ The Wire (Bill Meyer)

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