ALEC BACZKOWSKI + GUILLAUME VILTARD+ MARK SANDERS + Veryan Weston solo piano
Doors 8pm – starts 8.30pm – £8 / £5 – BUY TICKETS ( fees apply )
24 year old Alek Baczkowski, born in Chicago and now living in Poland, had never touched a saxophone until six years ago. Alek turned his back on college jazz training when he was told that Ornette Coleman was an example of how not to play. Instead he continued to hone his technique, studying privately with Leszek Nowotarski and Ryszard Krawczu in Krakow. He plays lead sax in the Polish group Tenpasten. One of his favourite musicians is the world renowned British drummer and improvising percussionist Mark Sanders, so it is appropriate that Alek makes his London debut in a trio that includes Mark alongside bassist Guillaume Viltard. Viltard, an intensely physical double-bassist has played with musicians as diverse as Otomo Yoshihide and Kan Mikami, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Ken Vandermark and Evan Parker. Mark Sanders is a musician of extraordinary sensitivity. Every touch is imbued with delicacy, musicality and inventiveness. Veryan Weston will play the solo piano work, Music in Black & White. The title relates to the black and white keys of the piano, using the keys to generate sound where space, counterpoint and rhythm connects with line, illusion and geometry.
