A very special night at The Crypt as pianist Adrian Reid brings a fine quartet to play for us. Adrian has featured at the club from its beginning, along with all the members of this band. It's going to be a great gig of the best original music and a few standards.
Features Adrian on piano, saxophonist Denys Baptiste, drummer Rod Youngs and bassist Larry Bartley
Guitarist and composer Jonny Phillips’ sextet combines Brazilian rhythms, modal jazz, art rock and an African blues aesthetic.
Quirky contemporary drum and percussion grooves contrast with spacious ambient textures, open improvisations and a distinctive sense of melody.
Featuring Jonny Phillips – electric guitar, Ruth Goller – bass, Idris Rahman – saxophone, Adriano Adewale – percussion, Dan Hewson – keys/trombone and Jon Scott – drums.
“Bandleader and prolific guitarist-composer Jonny Phillips seems to have tunes coming out of his ears.” — The Guardian
“Ravishingly beautiful” — Record Collector
Guitarist Archie Kidd’s ‘Some Kind of Gentle’ offers an insight into a drum-less quartet, with new compositions exploring a spectrum of texture and emotion.
Alongside Miguel Gorodi (trumpet/flugelhorn), Laurie Rich (piano), and Zaki Osahn (double bass), the group creates moments of soaring highs and intimate melancholy.
Jazz violinist Matt Holborn brings a cast of London's finest jazz musicians to Jazz Live, playing music from the Great American Songbook, compositions from his debut album as a leader, For Stuff ("this delightful album sheds a little sunlight on a rather neglected patch of jazz," Jazzwise, praised as "celestial" and "rapturous" by i newspaper), and other music inspired by his eclectic list of influences: Grappelli, Parker, Louis Armstrong, Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith.
Matt is one of the UK's leading jazz violinists. He has played extensively with musical comedian Bill Bailey, leads The London Django Collective, and is an avid educator, teaching jazz violin at summer camps across Europe as well as through his online Skool platform, Learning Jazz Violin.
He's joined by pianist and fellow Scot Fraser Urquhart (Stella Cole), and a dream rhythm section of Simon Read on bass and Joe Dessauer on drums.
Undoubtedly one of the leading harpists in the world today, Alina Bzhezhinska (a.k.a. AlinaHipHarp) is a one-woman powerhouse on a mission to bring harp to the forefront of contemporary sound.
Bzhezhinska is the creator of HipHarpCollective, who recently won the Parliamentary Jazz Award's Best Ensemble of the Year 2024. The group's double LP "Reflections" (BBE Music) won best album of the year 2023 by Preston Music and Alina Bzhezhinska's Quartet was nominated for Best Live Act of the Year at JazzFM Awards 2017.
Tony Kofi is a multi award winning saxophonists, a recording career that has seen collaborations with Donald Byrd, Cymande, Eddie Henderson, Abdullah Ibrahim and Ornette Coleman to name a few.
Kofi's solo work, in particular his 2020 album 'A Different Kind Of Soul' and his recently reissued 'Plays Monk' cement his reputation as one of the UK's most accomplished saxophonists.
