Dave O'Brien's Electro-Acoustic Trio

Dave O'Brien has always had an itching desire to explore the unfamiliar and likes to invite audiences and band-mates to join the quest. In demand as a pianist, double bassist, bass guitarist, he has spent most of the last two decades working in a huge variety of settings - jazz (Alex Curtis Quartet) , classical (Aurora Orchestra), M-base (F-IRE collective), soul (Shadow Wiritng), swing (Man Overboard Quintet), rock (Thidius), Cuban, Brazilian and various fusions involving other influences such as south-Indian, Gambian, flamenco and cabaret).

Tonight however, he will, for the first time in a long time, be leading a brand-new band of his own, which includes the six-string bass phenomenon Kevin Glasgow (Asaf Sirkis, Joe Locke, Preston-Glasgow-Lowe) with the drum chair shared by Gapsar Sena (Maria Chiara) and Jamie Murray (Zhenya Strigalev).

The set will include some brand new music, as well as re-workings from his old Peter-Whittingham-Award-winning band Porpoise Corpus, but he will also be returning to possibly his greatest early influence, the distinctive and incomparable Chick Corea, reflecting on both his acoustic and electric periods.