greenroom : Mark Lockheart Group

Manchester Jazz Festival

Mark Lockheart Group

£10/£8 concessions

Sat 25th July, 7:30pm

Mark Lockheart
soprano & tenor saxophones
Chris Batchelor
trumpet
Ivo Neame
piano
Jasper Høiby
double bass
Dave Smith
drums

Mark’s brand new group is at once a departure from and a rounding up of his many and varied projects to date: from his early days with Loose Tubes to his more recent projects (Scratch Band, Perfect Houseplants, Robert Wyatt’s Soup Songs and a guest appearance with Radiohead), perhaps most notably with Seb Rochford’s Polar Bear.

Here, the music– taken from his new release In Deep – is open, the compositions freer, and it evolves with extensive improvisatory contributions from the band members. It moves from spacious, free-jazz tinged grooves to the more pastoral, reflective compositions for which Mark is perhaps more widely known.

Mark’s approach to music-making veers away from dazzling displays of technical virtuosity, instead opting for a personal, expressive tone (Dexter Gordon and Wayne Shorter are heroes) in pursuit of a voice that says something different – one that is instantly recognisable and one which connects not only with his collaborating musicians, but with the listener too.

www.marklockheart.co.uk

Advance booking is strongly recommended.

Concerts start 7.30pm prompt; latecomers will be asked to wait for a suitable break in the performance.