Thursday 27th Sept 8pm
Bonington Theatre
Tickets - £9.00
£7 concs/£5 students/children
Featuring: Alcyona - Piano Mark Hanslip - Sax Robbie Robson ( tp) Paul Clarvis (drms) Steve Watts (pending) - bass
Alcyona began writing for quintet six years ago and debuted at Cheltenham Jazz festival in 2003. Upon receiving an award from the Royal Academy of Music, she recorded an album 'Around the Sun' her album was also nominated for a Parliamentary Jazz award earlier in the year.
A very sophisticated developer of the hard bop tradition adding material from both urban and classical music, with sparing but telling piano technique and an ear for the slinky horn harmonies of old Blue Note recordings
' * * * * ' - the Guardian, '07
'Alcyona has shortened the odds on becoming regarded
as one of the significant forces in the first decade
of the 21st century' - Jazz UK, '07
Music available on Alycona's Myspace web site here
