JAZZLIVE and Second Life

JAZZLIVE @ The Crypt have received a lottery grant to broadcast some of our gigs into Second Life (a virtual world with millions of users worldwide). See www.secondlife.com. Due to technical delays it is now intended to broadcast the November gigs. Before then some gigs will be recorded and broadcast non-live. Those on the email list will be kept informed.

Friday 18th September
The Filthy Six

The Filthy Six are the most exciting, authentic soul jazz outfit in the country today and have established themselves as one of the finest live acts around. Their hip-shakingly powerful mixture of jazz, funk and boogaloo is in the finest traditions of 60's Blue Note artists such as Lou Donaldson, Cannonball Adderley, Grant Green and Jimmy McGriff. Equally at home playing the sweat-drenched dancehalls of club land or the more traditional jazz room setting, their music appeals to both dance floor groovers and chin-scratching jazz heads alike.

The sextet is comprised of some of London’s hottest young musicians who lend their
talents to a variety of top artists from home and abroad including Tom Jones, Amy Winehouse, Jill
Scott, Mark Ronson, Basement Jaxx, David Axelrod, 4Hero, JTQ, Bobby Wellins, Hard-Fi, Richard Ashcroft,
Ed Harcourt, Natalie Williams, Stacey Kent, The Heritage Orchestra, and Nostalgia77. 2008 was a great
year for the band which saw them host a six month residency at the world famous Ronnie Scott's Jazz
Club, London; headline the Jazz Lounge at Glastonbury Festival; and open the London Jazz Festival with
barn-storming effect at Cargo, one of London’s more discerning music venues. They have also been
invited to burn up venues and dancefloors all across the UK and Europe including shows in Stockholm,
Paris, Geneva, the Isle of Wight International Jazz Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
(receiving several 5 * reviews in the process).

"THEIR HEADY MIX OF SOUL JAZZ FLAVOURS AND BAD ASS BOOGALOO...WRAPPED UP WITH A VIBRANT ENERGY AND SENSE OF HUMOUR...KEEPS THE CROWD HOOKED FROM THE MOMENT THEY WALK ON STAGE...A SURE FIRE BET EVERY TIME" - Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45s / Shook) - London

Jazz Festival 2008 “A MUTHA OF A SOUL FOOD PLATE… KILLER HORNS AND COOKED JUST RIGHT ORGAN… LOVE ‘EM AND
YOU’LL NEVER LEAVE ‘EM!” - Hammond Beat

“(WITH) CONSIDERABLE POWER (THEY) PRODUCE UNCOMPLICATED, UNEQUIVOCALLY ENTERTAINING MUSIC…AND IN ETWELL IN PARTICULAR HAVE A FRONT MAN CAPABLE OF ELOQUENT, PUNCHY, HARD-HITTING SOLOS THAT HARK BACK TO AN ERA GRACED BY THE LIKES OF LEE MORGAN AND FREDDIE HUBBARD” – Vortex Jazz Club, London

"THESE GUYS HAVE GOT ALL THE LICKS. SOUL JAZZ
HOW WE LIKE IT, ROUGH, RUGGED AND PLAYED BY GUYS TOTALLY ON TOP OF THEIR GAME. A VERY EXCITING ADDITION
TO THE UK SCENE" - The Craig Charles Funk And Soul Show, BBC 6 Music.

For further information on The Filthy Six please contact: Nick Etwell Tel: 07976 354 703 Email: mailto:nicketwell@hotmail.com
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Friday 25th September
Tommaso Starace Quartet
With Tommaso Starace - alto and soprano saxophones; John Turville on piano; Laurence Cottle on electric bass; Chris Nickolls on drums
 
The quartet was put together with the idea of combining musicians that displayed different styles and that together would bring a distinctive, fresh and exciting sound to the music performed. Following the style of his previous group Tommaso continues to explore his own compositions with the addition of reworked jazz standards by composers such as Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk, and Cannonball Adderley

This gig will be the launch of Tommaso's new CD  'Tommaso Starace Quartet - Don't Forget '

Tommaso's previous CD launch took place at the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall on December 21st and was followed by a favourable review in the Evening Standard by jazz critic Jack Massarick:
- ' Signor Starace is a shrewd operator. He plays alto and soprano sax with impressive post-Parkerian felicity and Italian flair'. 
( Evening Standard - Dec 22nd 2005)
 
- ' Starace's melodious originals offer good blowing potential for alto and soprano solos delivered in a cleanly articulated post-bop style reminiscent of Phil Woods.... The quintet's collective sound is distinctive.  
   Whether or not you care for the pictures, this is a group to watch.' ( Jazzwise - April 2006)

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Friday 2nd October
The Charlotte Glasson Band

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Friday 9th October
Gorillasound
More info to follow

Friday 16th October
The Zheya Strigalez/Nick Ramm Quartet
With Nick Ramm - Piano; Zhenya Strigalev - Alto Sax; Dave Whitford - Bass; Gene Calderazzo - Drums

Nick's musical training took him from Blackheath Conservatiore to Keele University and then
finally to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Over the years he worked closely with
Byron Wallen, Marcina Arnold, Jade Fox and Jonny Philips. In 2006 he joined The Cinematic
Orchestra and toured all over the world for several years. With his heart set in London his
current projects are Zhenya Strigalev Quartet, Clown Revisited (his own circus-adventure
quintet), Finn Peters 'Finntet', Seb Rochford's Fulborn Teversham and the Clare Hirst quartet.
In the fall of 2008 he composed music for and directed The F-ire Collective Large Ensemble in
a short UK tour. Shortly after this he joined the Sir Tom Jones Band for a series of TV
appearances promoting Jones's new album '24 Hours'.

Currently director of music at Charlie Wright's International Bar, Zhenya Strigalev is a jazz
saxophonist with 15 years of professional experience playing from Jam sessions in grungy
holes of St Petersburg to Kremlin in Moscow and the Purcell Room in London. To date, he has
recorded 4 albums on German and UK labels. At 17 Zhenya was given “The Best Saxophonist”
award in a well known St.Petersburg competition and has since participated in many leading
European, Russian, and UK Festivals, and various gigs in Russia, Finland, Check Republic,
Austria, Poland, France and the UK. Four years ago, in recognition of his outstanding musical
talent, he was granted a full scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music, in London. While
being there he has been studying and playing with well known jazz musicians like Lee Konitz,
Peter King, Dave Holland, Jeff Tain Watts, Mark Turner, Jeff Ballard, Jean Toussaint….

. "You can hear the influence of east european folk and classical music colouring the melodies and rhythms but this is primarily a
piece of jazz in the American tradition played with a good deal of heartfelt passion." (jazzwise)


“…..superb Russian fusion saxophonist, Strigalev….”(Time Out)

“Ramm's compositions are pleasingly varied but cohere intelligently as album elements; his piano playing is percussive and forceful, fluent and imaginative as required; his control of the various musical elements at his disposal exemplary." Chris Parker

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Friday 23rd October
The Bob Martin Quintet
More info to follow

 “A stunning player in the neo-bop vein, with an apparently effortless flow of coherent ideas, beautiful time and a highly developed harmonic sense.” JAZZ GUIDE 

“one of the most vigorously compelling tenor players on the UK scene, and on this wholly enjoyable, powerful album, he nods to the great saxophonists – Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Dexter Gordon chief among them – who so clearly influenced him, without unduly compromising his individuality; In the Zone  is archetypal O'Higgins: unpretentious, accessible, no-nonsense acoustic jazz addressed with skillfully controlled energy.” CHRIS PARKER reviewing In the Zone (Jazzizit)