Corrie Dick 'Impossible Things'

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Last Show: Tuesday 6 th June 2017

PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)

At the rhythmic epicentre of a new era of innovative British jazz is Corrie Dick, a musician lauded for his fluency, touch and euphoric abandon at the drum kit as well as his prolific body of work.

Tonight he performs with his star-studded 'Impossible Things', a band comprising THE young musicians on todays burgeoning London jazz scene. 

Today more than ever we need music as a release from life’s challenges. Corrie and his 'Impossible Things' band do this and so much more with their set; glorious anthems surge from emotional landscapes awash with exciting grooves and textures. Lose yourself in the sophisticated, triumphant sounds of 'Impossible Things'.

 

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“a bold fusion of Celtic folk music, African percussion subtly, and muscular postbop”

The Guardian (UK)

At the rhythmic epicentre of a new era of innovative British jazz is Corrie Dick, a musician lauded for his fluency, touch and euphoric abandon at the drum kit as well as his prolific body of work. He is an essential component of any project lead by Laura Jurd, provides the intricate and fluent sick work in the Elliot Galvin Trio, and brings intense, free colours to Danish powerhouse bassist Jasper Høiby’s exciting new project, Fellow Creatures. He also leads his 9-piece supergroup Impossible Things, releasing his debut album with the ensemble in November 2015 to great acclaim with sell-out concerts across the UK throughout 2016. The album display’s Corrie’s striking abilities as composer/lyricist by skilfully fusing Celtic folk and contemporary jazz with new takes on African rhythms.

Since his graduation as a gold medal student from Trinity Laban’s prestigious jazz course, Corrie has honed his playing and composing within the ranks of London’s renowned Chaos Collective - an organisation and record label set up by Corrie alongside his closest collaborators; BBC New Generation Artist Laura Jurd and European Jazz Artist of the Year 2015 Elliot Galvin. The young master of contemporary grooves has studied traditional music in Ghana and Morocco where the rhythm is rich and layered, and also in his home land of Scotland where rhythm and melody have melded for centuries. 

A winner of no shortage of accolades - Corrie picked up BBC’s ‘Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year 2013’ prize, Scottish Jazz Awards ‘Up and Coming Artist’ in 2012, countless others during his time at college and has attended countless other award ceremonies as a nominee for the likes of Jazz FM’s ‘Jazz Act of the Year’, and the UK Parliament’s ‘Best Newcomer’ and ‘Album of the Year’ - Corrie owes his talents to the myriad supportive communities he has himself been crucial to. He is an alumni of both Tommy
Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and has been mentored by the likes of Mark Guiliana and Kendrick Scott as well as Ghanaian kpanlogo master Saddiq Addy, nephew of the legendary Mustapha Tettey Addy. He has also studied the traditional and modern music of Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Benin and DR Congo alongside his prodigious
creative companion, guitarist Rob Luft. 

Corrie is an original, open-minded, questing talent who is destined to extend the parameters of what it means to be a drummer. 

 

Band Lineup

Alice Zawadzki (vocals/fiddle)
Laura Jurd (trumpet)
Joe Wright (saxophone/whistle)
George Crowley (saxophone)
Matt Robinson (piano)
Joe Webb (organ)
Conor Chaplin (bass)
Corrie Dick (drums/percussion)