DISS 2015 - Late Night Jazz in the Great Hall

Andy Sheppard: saxophone
Steve Lodder: keyboards
Martin France: drums

10pm Great Hall
£8 / Under 16s £5

An ECM recording artist, bandleader and composer, Andy Sheppard is one of Europe’s leading saxophonists, and a titanic figure in the jazz scene. He is a composer of more than 350 works that incorporate a strong and characteristic sense of lyricism alongside a very personal use of rhythms from Asia, Africa and South America. Andy has been described as a serial collaborator, playing recording and developing new music with artists as varied as Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, Indian violinist L.Shankar, folk musician Kathryn Tickell, singer songwriter John Martyn, and a myriad of leading jazz figures, including the rare hat-trick of three of the seminal composers in contemporary Jazz – Carla Bley, George Russell and the late Gil Evans.

Andy is joined here – for a scintillating concert of improv – by two immensely classy jazzers: the brilliantly inventive keyboardist Steve Lodder, and the coolest drummer around, Martin France (Spin Marvel, Human Chain, Loose Tubes).

Part of the Dartington International Summer School 2015 concert and events programme.

For more information visit https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/event/?id=88401