This coming Friday night, Quays Arts Centre in Newport will play host to the rather excellent Robert Mitchell Trio and are offering two tickets for the price of one.
The Robert Mitchell Trio have developed a real signature in this traditional jazz trio format, honing its mix of influences of song, odd metre, freeform jazz, broken beat, hip-hop and folk music with older and more modern jazz/ electronica /rock.
This Friday night they’ll play new material and songs off their highly acclaimed album, Greater Good which features arrangements of tunes by Massive Attack (Teardrop), and the famously sampled Galt MacDermot (composer of Hair), along with five Mitchell originals, a tune each by Tom and Richard, and the rarely played Dance Cadaverous, written by Wayne Shorter for his 1964 album Speak No Evil.
Robert will be appearing on BBC Radio Kent tonight at 9.15pm and you can listen online to get a flavour of what Robert has to offer.
What others have said
“Accompanied by the metronomic but awesomely complex drummer Richard Spaven and the ingenious electric and acoustic bassist Tom Mason… Mitchell improvises in Herbie Hancockish sweeps but with more input from free-improv and contemporary classical music.”
The Guardian
‘Robert Mitchell creates chamber jazz of astonishing beauty. His music communicates rapt attention, inquisitiveness, high intelligence and refined feeling. Mitchell can be lightning-fingered but usually favours subtlety, his melodies moving seemingly at will through a silence broken by silken cymbals and dark, rhythmically flawless bass. Mitchell is a lyricist and a thinker, and British jazz is far richer for his presence.’
Mike Butler, Metro
“Robert’s had a big hand to play in the development of jazz in the UK, back in the days of Quite Sane, Panacea”¦a very important influential musician, a massively popular record, and a great live performer whose gone from strength to strength. A great composer he’s also made the connection with a lot of new listeners by choices of covers, like Massive Attack, Radiohead, 4Hero..”
Gilles Peterson, BBC Radio
Bits and Bobs:
Performance Date/Time: Fri 6 Nov 8pm Doors 7pm £10 / *£9
Location: Anthony Minghella Theatre, Quay Arts
Ticket Price: £10 / *£9 (SPECIAL OFFER: Now buy two tickets for the price of one)
Box Office 01983 822490
Image: (c) N.Dracoulis
