Blended melodies & sound sculptures, imaginative explorations
Will Butterworth, piano
Mike McInerney, shakuhachi, humbox
Marcus Penrose, double bass
Steve Day, percussion
Will Butterworth, piano has worked extensively with many of the UK’s finest musicians including Dylan Howe, Asaf Sirkis, Andy Shepherd, Bill Bruford, Julian Siegel, and recently in a duo with Hadley Fraser. He was one half of the critically acclaimed ‘Stravinsky Duo’ with Dylan Howe, reinterpreting the works Stravinsky for drums and Piano. He has released 4 albums as band leader and his music has been heard on Radio 2,3 and classic FM. His latest quartet album ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ – a suite of original music based on Oscar Wilde’s Children’s story of the same name – was released on Jellymould jazz.
“Butterworth speaks in [a] lyrical and melodic fashion. There’s a wistful, almost elegiac quality about the music…” Ian Mann The Jazzmann
“UK-based Mike McInerney studied shakuhachi with Iwamoto… he sits patiently singing amid vast soundscapes, until he unleashes complex spirals of flute trills, looping contrails across the sky.” Clive Bell, The Wire, music magazine
Marcus Penrose is a double bassist and composer who has been a member of the London music scene for 25 years, heard regularly at the city’s major jazz venues (The Vortex, 606 Club and The Jazz Cafe). He's also played with a diverse range of artists at venues and festivals from the North of Scotland to Norway and Sweden and from the Swiss Alps to Cyprus to the Persian Gulf and many points between. He has recently collaborated with visiting international touring artists, Finland’s Olli Soikelli and France’s Adrien Moignard. He continues to write and perform with his trio, Aurelius which has received international recognition.
Steve Day “…in his jazz-formed music, the wild leap from a theme to [the] unexpected… is incontrovertibly the right one…” Roger Dennis, Wylde Publications
Will Butterworth, talking and playing with saxophonist Martin Speake (video on YouTube)
Doors and bar open at 7pm
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You may also like the following events from Ashburton Arts Centre:
- This Wednesday, 19th November, 07:30 pm, Bruce Adams with the Martin Dale Quartet in Newton Abbot
- This Saturday, 22nd November, 07:30 pm, Talking Faces Theatre: Tongues / Savage Love in Newton Abbot
- This Sunday, 23rd November, 04:00 pm, The Meaning of Life Revisited: Making Life Meaningful, with Prof Joe Foweraker in Newton Abbot
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