8.30 - 11.00pm
£6 on the door
The last album from Denys Baptiste ‘Identity By Subtraction’
attracted some very positive reviews: "London saxophonist Baptiste won a
raft of prizes - a Mercury, a Mobo and a British Jazz award - and much
deserved acclaim for 2003's ‘Let Freedom Ring’. Given that head-start,
his seven-year absence from the recording studio has been surprising.
But the traditionally swaggering tenor-sax tone with a soulfully
imploring contemporary edge is still fully functioning on this new
quartet set...There's plenty of Coltrane-driven orthodox-postbop that
largely avoids the rhythmically byzantine nu-jazz challenges of recent
years" - John Fordham, The Guardian. "Baptiste puts all the pieces
together with rare dedication, imagination and emotion. Nine mature
originals complete a multi-faceted suite of straight-ahead contemporary
jazz that repays repeated listening" - Jack Massarik, London Evening
Standard.