A night of musical improvisation from performers Brandon Lopez, Mark Sanders, and Tom Chant.
Doors 7pm
Tickets £10-14 Sliding Scale
Brandon Lopez is a bassist and composer living in New York City. His work deals with improvisation, finding new sonic possibilities on the double bass. Collaborations with the likes Fred Moten, Gerald Cleaver, John Zorn, The Mat Maneri Quartet, Nate Wooley’s knknighgh, Satoko Fuji, Zeena Parkins, Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey, Standing On The Corner, Cecilia Lopez, Ash Fure, Joe Morris, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others. Playing with the New York Philharmonic 2019 season as a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic in the premier of Ashley Fure’s Filament under the baton of Jaap Van Zweden. His solo work has been featured at the Met Museum in a live collaboration with silent films by directors Stan Brakhage and Germaine Dulac. His collaborative work with Fred Moten and Gerald Cleaver was critically acclaimed by publications of note and won Best of Jazz 2022 in the NYTimes. His most recent solo recording won best of 2023 in the NYC Jazz record. He’s been awarded the Van Lier Fellowship (2018) and Jerome Artist in Residence (2020) at Roulette Intermedium, The Artist in Residence at Issue Project Room (2018), commissions from the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation for the recording of SUN BURNS OUT YOUR EYES (2022), 2023 NYSCA grant for the multimedia piece NADA SAGRADA premiered at the Vision Festival, and an award in 2020 from the Doris Duke Charitable Trust. He is currently an instructor of improvisation and double bass at the New School for Jazz and has taught master classes and lectures at Eastman School of Music and Harvard University.
Mark Sanders is a drummer/percussionist who has had a career taking in many musical styles and genres, this history informs his now mainly free improvisation and free jazz based work. He has played with many renowned improvising musicians, including Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp and Myra Melford. He is a member of many working groups including those with Nicole Mitchell, John Butcher, Paul Dunmall, John Edwards and also Neil Charles' Dark Days with Cleveland Watkiss and Pat Thomas. Mark has played concerts and festivals around the world, including South Africa, Mozambique, Japan, Australia, Russia, USA, Canada, Turkey and Morocco. Teaching free improvisation, he is Visiting Lecturer at The Royal Academy of Music, was Lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire teaching his own improvisation module for seven years, and has taught individual students at many Universities around the UK. Mark is a recipient of the 2024 Paul Hamlyn Award.
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.
This event has been organised by Mayssa Fattouh.