The Brunswick - JAZZ AT THE BRUNSWICK

Friday 28th March Examples of Twelve

£5 8.00pm Inhabiting a similar musical space to bands like Polar Bear, Led Bib and Acoustic Ladyland and part of our TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION series

"Crypt, LondonJohn L Walters Wednesday March 5, 2008 The Guardian

With two cult albums, The Way Things Were and The Way Things Are, composer-bassist Riaan Vosloo has created a moody, idiosyncratic soundworld all his own under the name Examples of Twelves. It is simultaneously futuristic and retro, wrangling electronics, improv, beats and swing within a contemporary jazz framework. His live sextet features three horns and two drummers, playing acoustic and electronic sets. Horace Tapscott's Desert Fairy Princess evokes the beatnik basement jazz of movies like A Bucket of Blood and All Night Long. Vosloo's own pieces, with inspired ensemble writing, maintain the mood, and the high bass lines of Part 3 of The Way Things Were tug the heartstrings. With no piano nor guitar, the compositional and improvisational nuances are easy to hear. Free Spirits, by Mary Lou Williams, and a strident, thundering version of Sun Ra's A Call for All Demons broaden the 60s jazz palette. Tenor saxist Mark Hanslip shines on the former, while Fulvio Sigurtà is outstanding on trumpet and flugel. Vosloo's The Way Things Are takes up all the second set. Sigurtà's muted trumpet emerges, Miles-like, from the electronic heat-haze, while the two drummers create polyrhythms against Vosloo's resonant bass. Delicate ensemble passages give way to intense solos, including Johnny Spall's ferocious alto sax. Vosloo uses the remaining horns in conjunction with the laptop samples to create background textures and harmonies. Sigurtà makes good use of electronics, too, to process his searing trumpet lines. The band shift from abstraction to grooves with an accomplished ease that make Cinematic Orchestra's live band sound like dabblers. If a nightclub band were ever needed for an extra-noir director's cut of Blade Runner, Examples of Twelves would be it............."

http://www.myspace.com/examplesoftwelves

Sunday 13th April Diego Parada Free 3.00pm Gypsy Jazz session in the style of DJango

Saturday 19th Fraud! £5 8.00pm

fraudmusic.co.uk

Fraud wins Ronnie Scott's Jazz Award for Best Newcomer!

Fraud are part of our Tomorrow is the Question series, featuring musicians that are pushing the boundries of modern music. Polar Bear, Led Bib and others have already played at The Brunswick and Fraud! are one of the most exciting acts around, in this genre.

'Fraud is, frankly, brilliant, your album is scary and thrilling and it swings.' John Gill. Wire Magazine Critic.

'Each time I listen to Fraud I hear something new. The saxophones, drums and keyboard combine to form an intrepid and intensely contemporary sound. Music this spontaneous, focused and robust is extremely hard to find.' Pete Wareham. Acoustic Ladyland.

'Fraud, a four-piece band characterised by their musically collective desire to explore and invent with a healthy respect and disrespect in equal measure for tradition. It is colourful and exciting music. At its heart though is a sense of honesty, four young guys who have taken on board a wealth of different musics playing what comes naturally without baggage or self-consciousness.' Brian Irvine. Composer.

www.fraudmusic.co.uk

James Allsopp - Reeds + Decomposer