Gus Garside – double bass
Johnny Hunter – drums
Hervé Perez – saxophone
This bass drums and sax trio of experienced jazz improvisers play free flowing contemporary jazz with a distinctly reflective European feel. Each musician brings in a range of influences: Hervé’s work as a site specific, electroacoustic sound artist, underpinned with Gus’ concentrations on improvisation and contemporary composition and by Johnny’s accomplished jazz technique. They veer between fluid free play to more contemplative material, blending melody with extended techniques, an elaborate sense of harmony and rhythm that feeds the demands of both jazz enthusiasts and contemporary music lovers.
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Biography
Gus Garside – double bass
I have worked in a variety of musical settings – jazz, contemporary music, rock, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music.
I perform in a number of regular groups and one off projects as well as occasionally performing solo. I often use electronics and occasionally voice. I have enjoyed working with dancers, visual artists and films.
I also create structured improvisational compositions including The Star Field, The Sleepwalkers (featuring 10 of the leading improvising string players in the UK) and Collective Stories (a commission in Quebec with Grand Groupe Régional d’Improvisation Libérée).
I am part of the Brighton Safehouse collective, a collective of local improvising performers, which is now in its 13th year.
I’m also the national coordinator for Creative Minds, a project led by learning disabled artists and performers who wish to take their rightful place in the wider arts world.
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“… where he differs from the average jazz bassist is in the range of sonorities he conjures from his instrument” Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD.
“… a cornerstone of the Brighton’s improvised music scene” Jazz on BBC Radio 3
“… the audience were mesmerised by Garside’s dexterous flair, humble mastery and radical subversion” Kyle McAllum, Extra normal
Johnny Hunter – drums
Johnny Hunter is a northern UK-based drummer and composer who comes from a background of both the Avant-Garde and the more mainstream Jazz.
His own “chordless” quartet, set up to explore the freedom and limitations of having no chordal instrument, have been recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3, and have performed across the country in notable venues such as London’s Ronnie Scott’s, the Manchester Jazz Festival, Birmingham Jazzlines at Symphony Hall, Liverpool International Jazz Festival, among many others.
He also leads the piano trio Fragments, formed to research and develop new approaches to improvising and composing for improvisers, has written works for various other ensembles (Pale Blue Dot, Backlash, Manchester Jazz Collective).
Johnny performs across the UK in many other groups including with Misha Gray’s Prehistoric Jazz Quintet, Cath Roberts’s Sloth Racket; The Spirit Farm, John Pope Quintet, Nat Birchall, Engine Room Favourites, the Blind Monk Trio, Word of Moth, Beck Hunters, the Dub Jazz Soundsystem, Skamel.
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Hervé Perez – saxophone
Artist, composer and improvising musician from France who now lives in England.
He plays saxophones, shakuhachi and laptop in various groups and produces music inspired by jazz, contemporary and electroacoustic music, experimental, sound art and sound therapy.
He has released three albums with Inclusion Principle (Discus label), many recordings in collaboration with artists from around the world, and also solo work on various netlabels.
Hervé has worked as sound recordist and sound designer on a number of short films, and is currently carrying out residencies doing location recordings and concerts with Maja Bugge’s Northern.
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, Full of Noises, etc.
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