- Ticket price:
- From: £20
- Running time:
- 2 hrs 15 mins (incl interval)
This UK based group presents vibrant European Contemporary Jazz, played by a quartet of superb musicians.
Local jazz hero Jon Lloyd has enjoyed a remarkable creative, critical and popular resurgence with this superb ECM/European-influenced quartet. This atmospheric music is popular with jazz and non-jazz audiences alike, and the quartet’s album “Earth Songs”, on the prestigious Ubuntu label, received over a million streams in only ten months. Leader, composer and saxophonist Jon has been part of the UK jazz and creative music scene for several decades (groups with Mark Sanders, Paul Rogers, Phil Wachsmann, Tom Farmer, Asaf Sirkis), and has now turned his attention to European contemporary jazz, writing vibrant, melodic and emotionally engaging compositions. The quartet comprises the virtuosic John Law (Congregation, Art of Sound Trio with Asaf Sirkis and Yuri Golubev, Re-Creations) on piano, Nick Pini (Iain Ballamy Quartet, Laura Marling) on double bass and Alex Goodyear (Yetii, Re-Creations, Simon Spillett) on drums. The band has received critical acclaim for their beautiful music.
Jon Lloyd – soprano , tenor saxophone
John Law – piano
Alex Goodyear – drums
Nick Pini – double bass
“Lloyd’s tunes are steeped in the ECM aesthetic, and he and long-time collaborator John Law on piano make it sound like the only music you ever want to hear.”Jon Turney, Swanage Jazz Festival concert review, July 2023
“The interplay between the quartet members is magical, instinctive… creating music of often startling beauty.”Peter Vacher, Jazzwise magazine, March 2024
" An accomplished album characterised by emotion and beauty... offering inventive textures, dynamics shifts and a touch of magic."Neil Duggan, All About Jazz, 2025