To mark the release of his new album Wu Hen, British keyboardist Kamaal Williams performs live this Thursday in the company of saxophonist and clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings – another pillar of London’s vibrant jazz scene – as well as soul singer Lauren Faith and harpist Alina Bzhezhinska. Donations can be made to fund the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, an organization that works with youth.
Here’s a tantalizing preview of what awaits the audience:
The potent pairing of Duncan Eagle’s saxophone and Max Luthert’s modular synths, U.K. duo Million Square impressed with the effective electro-jazz of their recent EP “Spirit Bloom”. They square off live this Friday, June 12, 2pm EST, a free stream care of British arts agency Serious. More info here.
On Monday, June 1 at 1:30pm (EST), a concert by the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, originally scheduled for early April, will be broadcast live.
Raising the curtain, the IEMA ensemble promises Quintette pour hautbois et quatuor à cordes (2007) by Vienna’s Friedrich Cerha. That will be followed by Framed (2011), a piece by Slovenian composer Vito Zuraj, and Acid Rain (1986) by American composer Michael Gordon. co-founder of the Bang on a Can ensemble.
The main course of this programme will be a nearly half-hour-long piece by the spectralist Tristan Murail, one that’s never been recorded: Liber Fulguralis, for instrumental ensemble, electronic and video synthesis (2008). Inspired by the art of interpreting lightning flashes among the oracles of antiquity, the work is a creation whose musical and visual components were developed simultaneously by Murail and visual sequence designer Hervé Bailly-Basin.
After the live broadcast on Monday, the video of the concert will be available until Friday, June 5.