Kate Williams Trio @ Dean Street
Tuesday 31st January 2012
Kate Williams Trio & Special Guest Bobby Wellins
£15
Originally from Glasgow, Bobby Wellins is considered to be one of the most exceptional figures in modern jazz. He featured on one of Britain's best-selling jazz albums, Stan Tracey’s “Under Milk Wood”, recorded in the late sixties. He has his own quartet featuring pianist Liam Noble, and recently toured with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra…"A masterful display of controlled sensitivity from one of the most original voices in European Jazz" – The Sunday Times.
Pianist/composer Kate Williams has released several albums to critical acclaim featuring her trio, quintet, and septet...“the expanded palette of sounds is a thrilling vehicle for her evolving and unusual musical imagination" – Mojo. “A superbly lucid and inventive pianist and composer” – Humphrey Lyttleton, BBC Radio 2.
Tonight will feature duo, trio and quartet tunes, including material from Bobby and Kate's forthcoming CD. They are joined by: Oli Hayhurst (double bass), Tristan Mailliot (drums).