Pete Wareham is an old friend of the Vortex, his Acoustic Ladyland being the first band to play in our current venue in Dalston. Now best known as the leader of the amazing Melt Yourself Down.
Welcome to the world of a new jazz trio stretching out on tunes by Sam Rivers, Joe Henderson, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and many other classic jazz composers. This is a rare opportunity to see Pete Wareham (Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear), Tom Skinner (Matthew Herbert, Sons Of Kemet) and Ben Hazleton (Tony Kofi, Byron Wallen) playing the material they grew up with, exploring jazz with virtuosic abandon, and bringing their enormous experience of all kinds of music to an improvising jazz trio.
This is a band of original writers who have established themselves on the international jazz scene as some of the freshest musical thinkers on the planet. Here they relax, have fun and take classic and obscure jazz material to new levels.
‘Pete Wareham is probably best known for his work with Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear and Melt Yourself Down, ‘Bump’ is different from these. It is a standards project, in which Wareham deploys a more rootsy, mellow and maybe even traditional sound. It worked wonderfully from the off with his sax blending beautifully with Ben Hazleton’s bass intro for a rendition of Sam Rivers’ ‘Beatrice’.’ (Londonjazz, November 2014)