Doors 8:15 PM, Music 9:00 PM – 2 set(s) of music
Line-up:
Tony Kofi – Alto saxophone
Jonathan Gee – Piano
Ben Hazleton – Double bass
Winston Clifford – Drums
About
This quartet was formed in 2001 by Tony Kofi and Jonathan Gee which augmented into a 10 piece for the London jazz festival and became The Monk Liberation Front performing all of Monk’s 70 compositions at the 2003 London Jazz festival. Tony Kofi’s Quartet was voted best ensemble at the 2005 Parliamentary Jazz Awards and also won the 2005 BBC Jazz award for best ensemble. This quartet features three original MLF band members with Rod Youngs on drums.
The quartet augmented to an ensemble of 10 played the 2017 London jazz festival at Cadogan Hall, which also coincided the Monk’s 100th birthday, where they performed all of Monk’s compositions which included the Monk at the town hall orchestra, which was originally performed and recorded live in New York on the 1st of January 1959. For this ensemble the LJF invited the esteemed US trumpeter and composer Charles Tolliver to conduct the 2017 ensemble.