Gilad Atzmon and the OHE - Album Launch Tour
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 10:17AM Songs Of The Metropolis – Album Launch Tour
Maverick, award-winning saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble are back on the road with their latest album Songs Of The Metropolis. For the last 12 years the quartet have been touring all over the world, stunning audiences with their firebrand performances packed with drama, pathos, luscious harmonies and wit. Atzmon's latest compositions are a sweeping homage to our great cities, from Moscow to Buenos Aires and beyond. Each tune is at once reminiscent and hopeful; in a time of great uncertainty and turbulence Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble deliver melodies that provide an anchor to wherever it is that we call home.
‘A subtle blend of East and West, that’s brutal and beautiful’ BBC.
‘A formidable improvisational array...a jazz giant steadily drawing himself up to his full height...’ The Guardian.
‘The best musician living in the world today’ Robert Wyatt
Gilad Atzmon - clarinet, sax, Yaron Stavi - bass, Eddie Hick - drums, Frank Harrison - piano.
January
12 Plough Arts, Great Torrington, Devon / www.theploughartscentre.org.uk
16 Grimsby Jazz, Grimsby / www.grimsbyjazz.com
17 Seven Arts, Leeds / www.sevenleeds.co.uk
18 Sheffield Jazz, Sheffield / www.sheffieldjazz.org.uk
19 Hideaway, London / www.hideawaylive.co.uk
20 With Roger Odell @ The Cherry Tree, Knowl Green, Belchamp St Paul, Suffolk / www.jazz-nights.com *
24 With Pete Oxley's 4tet @ The Spin Oxford / www.spinjazz.com *
25 The Victory Club, Cheltenham / www.cheltenhamjazz.co.uk
27 Hen and Chicken, Bristol / http://jazzata.com/Venues.html
31 with Graham York's trio @ The Blue Vanguard, Exeter *
February
1 Fleece Jazz, Suffolk / www.dovbear.co.uk/fleece
2 The 606 Club, London / www.606club.co.uk
5 Brook Theatre, Chatham / www.tickets.medway.gov.uk
8 St Mary's Church, Wivenhoe / www.wivenhoeevents.blogspot.co.uk
9 Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth / www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk
10 The Swan Hotel, Abergavenny (lunch time) / http://bmjazz.tumblr.com/
10 Chapel Arts, Bath (evening) / www.chapelarts.org
14 The Boat House, Broxbourne / www.broxbournerowingclub.org/jazz
15 The Verdict, Brighton / www.verdictjazz.co.uk
20 Old Brown Jug, Newcastle Under Lyme / www.oldbrownjug.com
21–23 Album Launch Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London / www.pizzaexpresslive.com
24 Jagz, Ascot / www.jagz.co.uk
26 With Terry Collie's trio Retro Bistrot Restaurant. Teddington, London, TW11
27 Y Theatre, Leicester / www.leicesterjazzhouse.co.uk
28 With The Power Cats South Holland Arts Centre, Spalding / www.southhollandcentre.co.uk *
March
1. With Jon Thorne's Trio, Isle of White / www.jonthorne.co.uk *
2 Posk Jazz Cafe, London / www.jazzcafeposk.co.uk
5 The Stables, Milton Keynes / www.stables.org
7 Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottingham / www.jazzsteps.co.uk
8 Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle on Tyne www.starandshadow.org.uk
10–12 Town Hall, Shetland Island (+master classes)
13 Jazz Bar, Edinburgh / www.thejazzbar.co.uk
14 Art Club, Glasgow / www.glasgowartclub.co.uk /
15 The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria / www.breweryarts.co.uk
16 Band on the Wall, Manchester / www.bandonthewall.org
17 Herts Jazz, Welwyn Garden City / www.hertsjazz.co.uk
* not an OHE's concert
