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Thu-12-Aug (7:00pm) - £15.00
Nicolas Meier Album Launch
Show Time 8:30pm / Doors Open 7:00pm
London based Swiss guitarist Nicolas Meier is one of the rising stars of a vibrant British jazz scene, his trademark sound, as heard on his Naim albums, a mixture of jazz and spicy Turkish and world music rhythms. The Meier Group have toured extensively in Europe and tlast years extensive UK tour includes the London International Guitar Festival. While in 2006 Meier and his band won the prestigious Grand Prize Of The Jury and 1st Prize Jazz Guitar at Jazz a Juan Revelations 2006: A competition open to the finest new jazz musicians and bands in Europe and run by the legendary Jazz A Juan Festival. But he is becoming increasingly well known in his adopted country as well where his Meier group features brilliant Israeli world-bebop saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, bassist Tom Mason and drummer Asaf Sirkis where last year’s tour in support of his third album Silence Talks (the first Orient was released in 2006 and Yüz was released in 2007) saw Meier and co play again to packed house across the country.
Meier draws on a multitude of influences: Jazz, Flamenco, Latin and Middle-Eastern music are all passionately explored in a series of heartfelt acoustic modern jazz originals and all represent part of Meier’s musical and personal world. His wife Songul is Turkish and he has spent time there and in Spain and ‘Orient’ draws on the melodies and rhythms of both countries.
Nicolas Meier (Acoutic Guitars, Baglama and Glissentar), Asaf Sirkis (drums), Pat Bettison (Bass and Harmonica), Chris Jerome (piano), Mark Lockhart (saxes)
Artist Website
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Jazz Club Soho
10 Dean Street
Soho
London
W1D 3RW
0845 6027 017
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