Date/Time
Thursday 10 July 2025
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Categories Jazz
Book here now: £15 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
Monsterosa emerged from a lockdown project to write songs and instrumentals for five jazz musicians based on Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo stories, using all their favourite instruments and genres.
The songs and tunes were inspired by moments of possibility finding the countryside in the city. The melodies are rooted in jazz, taking in a wider love for soul, folk, and latin music, and played with verve and precision by some of the UK’s leading performers.
Rebecca Hollweg, vocals
Graeme Wilson, saxophones & other woodwinds, piano, balafon
Andy Williamson, saxophones & bass clarinet
Ross Milligan, guitars
Andy Hamill, double bass, harmonicas
Tom Gordon drums, percussion
London Jazz News praised the album as ‘a beautiful jazz collection’:
“The band are terrific…crystalline vocals convey the joy and poignancy of these tales…the whole ensemble play with a deftness and sensitivity”
“A joy to listen to…There are no longueurs; the music drives forward with fascinating variety until its charming conclusion”
Full review:londonjazznews.com/2024/05/13/monsterosa-the-seasons-in-the-city/
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