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[The Beck Woolf Perez Trio ]
adam woolf – keys
mick beck – tenor saxophone
hervé perez – alto saxophone
sounds:
A gripping new trio, Beck Woolf Perez are improvising musicians with broad interest in jazz and contemporary music.
This group epitomises deep listening, fast musical exchanges, and intriguing harmonic structures. They play with spontaneous communication with high energy, and commitment to communal creation.
Top players in their fields, the trio aspires to creating music that is both engaging and challenging to audiences, alternating fiery melodic delivery with deep merging of soundscapes.
The music is rich with structures and intricate interactions; and yet free as birds, the players engage in fast and soulful movements, flexible and innovative interpretations, through evolving narratives that will transport the listener.
Biography
Adam Woolf (piano, keys)
Adam Woolf has been performing since the early 70’s, forming an experimental outfit with Cellist/Composer and Author Thomas Gardner. Throughout the 80’s he was a session musician, mainly on Piano and Reeds. In the 90’s he began collaboration with hip hop artists, particularly London based Kenneth Marx and presently, New York MC Frawstakwa.
He has been collaborating with Sheffield’s finest improvisors (present company included) John Jasnoch, Charlie Collins, Derek Saw, Beatrix Fernandez Ward, Nathan Bettany, Linda Kemp, Martin Archer and Neil Carver. Also with musicians from further afield such as Neil Brand, Graham Clark and Jim Denley.
He is also a composer and producer of several CD’s published under the name Tantric Doctors.
web – https://www.focusedsilence.com/artist/tantric-doctors/
http://dientedesierra.net/releases.htm#DDS003
Mick Beck (tenor saxophone, bassoon)
Influential in GB since the early 1980s as a powerful thought-provoking tenor player, and from the late 80s a pioneering improvising big band leader (Feet packets). In 1998 he took up the bassoon. He is one of the few to explore its contribution to experimental music using extended techniques with extraordinary results.
His solo album, Life Echoes (Discus 36 CD), is one of the best explorations of the scope of all his major instruments.
In 2013 a documentary film by Jonny Drury about his music, Mick Beck, Rather Different was released, and that is now available as a DVD. Since then he has released 2 further CDs – Beck Hunters (The Hunt is On, Discus 46CD), and Weavels (The Living Puzzle, Discus51CD), both well reviewed.
He is a brilliant soloist, has a variety of small groups with personnel drawn from all over the country. He is also a member of Martin Archer’s free jazz group Engine room Favourites, and the anti-choir Juxtavoices. In all his work he combines musicality with a quirky sense of humour.
Based in Sheffield, he has performed in several European countries, Canada and Australia, and continues to be an influential player on the UK scene.
web – https://mickbeckmusic.wordpress.com/
Hervé Perez (saxophones)
Hervé Perez is a composer and improvising musician from France who now lives in England.
He plays saxophones, shakuhachi and laptop in various groups and produces unique music inspired by jazz, contemporary and electroacoustic music, experimental, sound art and sound therapy.
He has released three albums with Inclusion Principle (Discus label) and many recordings in collaboration with artists from around the world, as well as solo work on various netlabels.
Live performances incl. Huddersfield Week of Speakers, Mantis festival Manchester, insubordinations microfestival in Switzerland, Sheffield festival of the Mind, mopomoso at the Vortex London, megapolis and dumbo arts festivals New York, Jazz à Luz, Manchester and Marsden Jazz festival etc.
web – http://www.spacers.lowtech.org/herve
sax – http://soundcloud.com/herveperez
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