Dave Storey Trio with James Allsopp and Conor Chaplin – “One of the best small live music venues in the UK” The Guardian

Date/Time
Sunday 9 June 2024
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Categories
Jazz

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These are exceptionally good players, doing a short tour down here in the South West. If you’re a jazz fan, this is definitely one that’s not to be missed! To quote London Jazz News audiences can expect “Twisty trips around post-bop topography, fuelled by high-octane virtuoso drumming”. On sax is James Allsopp: “perhaps the most gifted British saxophonist of his generation” (Underscore Music Magazine) and Conor Chaplin on bass of whom UK Jazz News commented, “He has a wonderful capacity to communicate the joy of having just landed on a new idea, a texture, line, a rhythmic kick, to produce endlessly the sound of surprise.”

They’ll be playing material from their third album Circeo (listen here on Bandcamp) featuring their signature quicksilver interplay honed over almost a decade of playing and touring together. The jazz tradition brought to life for the 21st century – communication with love, humour and fire.

Alongside Dave on drums are multi-award winning saxophonist James Allsopp (also heard with Kit Downes, Last Poets) and on double bass, Conor Chaplin (Dinosaur, Ari Hoenig). Circeo sees a venture into a more ethereal sound world; one that still retains a harmonious blend of soulful grooves, soaring solos and musical conversation.

“There is a sense of effortless empathy from the very first note, and the conversation is real.” London Jazz News

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