+ Jookla Duo

(Tues 20th Nov / £7adv / 8pm)

Presented by Qu Junktions

Wild show featuring the incredible saxophonist and legend that is Sonny Simmons, all the way from the USA playing alongside the Tight Meat threesome feat David Keenan (saxophone), Alex Neilson (drums) and George Lyle (bass). Plus from Italy comes the all-out Jookla duo

Huey ‘Sonny’ Simmons is one of the key figures to come out of the 1960s free jazz scene and his CV locates him at all the major epicentres, with recording sessions alongside John Coltrane’s rhythm section, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison, as well as players like Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and Don Cherry. In 1966 he led his own group through two absolutely flattening LPs for the legendary ESP-Disk label, then home to Albert Ayler and Sun Ra. The historic hook-up with Tight Meat sees him connecting with a whole new generation of musicians who have accelerated the advanced modes of 1960's fire music as laid down by Simmons, Ayler et al by applying a punk-primitive post-noise mindset to their instant compositions for saxophone and drums. Unbelievably enough, this is Sonny’s first ever UK tour.

http://www.sonnysimmons.org
http://www.boweavilrecordings.com/tightmeat.html
http://jooklo.tk/