(Thu 14th / 8pm / £4)

A concert inspired by the free and spiritual music of one of the most
charismatic and mythologised jazz musicians of them all.

In the era of Vietnam, civil rights, and hippy culture, Ayler rewrote the saxophone rulebook with his unhinged, free form, holy other kind of blues. Drawing on spirituals, folk song, marches and, as he saw it, the word of God Himself, he had become the catalytic force in free jazz by his death in 1970.
Tonight two specially commissioned performances from THE ALBERT AYLER PROJECT, a loose knit pool of leading musicians from the South West and London, bringing reworkings, improvisations and a little of their own cosmic transcendence to the Cube.

FIRST PERFORMANCE:
John Grieve (Tenor Sax)
Graham Mackeachan (Double Bass)
Roger Skerman (Drums)

SECOND PERFORMANCE:
Geoff Hawkins (Tenor / Soprano Sax)
Pete Judge (trumpet)
Diana van Loock (violin)
Graham Mackeachan (Double Bass)
Roger Skerman (Drums)

In memory of John Boulding, musician 1947-2005