Double bill :
Alex Ward – clarinet and guitar
Dominic Lash – double bass
Dag Erik Knedal Andersen – Oslo-based drummer
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Jamison Williams – soprano saxophone
Adrian Northover – saxes
Tickets: £7/ £5
Alex Ward was born in 1974. He is a composer, improviser, and performing musician. His primary instruments are clarinet and guitar, and he has also performed in public and on recordings on alto sax, piano/keyboards, bass guitar, and as a vocalist. He was based in Oxford from 1992-2000, and since then has lived in London. His involvement in freely improvised music dates back to 1986, when he met the guitarist Derek Bailey. As an improviser, he was initially principally a clarinettist (sometimes also playing alto sax), but since 2000 he has also been active as an improvising guitarist.
Dominic Lash is a freely improvising double bassist, although his activities also range much more widely and include playing bass guitar and other instruments; both writing and performing composed music; and writing about music and various other subjects. Based in Bristol, Lash has performed in the UK, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and USA. For nearly a decade he was based in Oxford and played a central role in the activities of Oxford Improvisers; much of 2011 was spent living in Manhattan
Knedal Andersen had originally planned to become an engineer, but at the age of 16 he discovered the dubious joy of jazz and improvised music, and hence there were no turning back. After buying all the records he could lay his hands on at that time, he soon found himself studying jazz at the Conservatory of Music in Trondheim. After his graduation in 2008, he moved to Berlin for a brief period of time, before moving to Oslo to do a masters degree in improvised music at the Norwegian State Academy of Music.
Jamison Williams
Soprano saxophone player specializing in experimental deconstructionism, and extended techniques; currently organizing and operating the Experimental Arts Union of Florida (www.EAUF.org), +SoLo Sound Gallery (www.sologallery.org), and founded the music publishing label, Vantage Bulletin (www.vantagebulletin.com). Resides in Jacksonville, Florida.
“In the technical tradition of players like John Butcher, and emotionally (most famously) Albert Ayler, Williams is a proponent of the extended techniques of the saxophone, spitting out harmonics, weeping ‘multiphonics’, the reed equivalent of a guitarist creating feedback and noise from an amplifier and effects pedals.” Dan Brown (Folio Weekly)
Adrian Northover has toured extensively in Europe and North America, with B Shops for the Poor, The Remote Viewers and Sonic Phonics (with Billy Bang). Recent CD releases include Crimeways, by The Remote Viewers with John Edwards and Mark Sanders, and a number of duo CDs with Adam Bohman, as The Custodians. As well as solo saxophone performances, Adrian can currently be heard playing on the London club scene with a wide range of musicians, John Edwards and Steve Noble in ‘Hard Evidence’ a trio playing the music of Thelonious Monk, The London Improvisers Orchestra, and Trip-Tik (with Catherine Pluygers and Adam Bohman). Adrian also works with Harvir Sahota (tabla) and Tasos Stamou in Jazz-Thali, playing Indo-Greek Jazz fusion.
