Regular Ensembles:
SCHH
with
Chris Hobbs - percussion/electronics/piano etc, Mike Hurley - piano and Walt Shaw - percussion/electronics
Coates/Hobbs/Smith
with
Chris Hobbs - Percussion etc. and Jamie Smith - Guitars.
Coates/Edwards/Ryan
with
John Edwards - bass and David Ryan - clarinets
sometimes with Tania Chen or Sarah Nicholls - piano.
Frimp house band: Coates/Dunmall/Lines/Sanders
with
Paul Dunmall - saxophones, Trevor Lines - bass and Mark Sanders - drums
augmented by at various times:
Tony Marsh, Doug Hough, Tony Bianco, Aaron Moore, Miles Levin, Tony Levin, Roger Telford - drums, Paul Rogers and John Edwards- bass, David Ryan - clarinets, Simon Picard, Pete McPhail, Gary Curson, Colin Mills, Dan Nicholls and Mole - saxophone, Jim Dvorak, Joe Egan, Phil Rowland and Ray Butcher - trumpet, Paul Rutherford - trombone ; Mike Hurley - keyboards, Jamie Smith, Barry Edwards and Phil Gibbs - guitar ; John Richards and Misterlee - electronics; Michael Curtis Oxtoby - violin.
The Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra.
Baby Bio:
Bruce Coates and Mike Hurley plus others.
Stet Lab takes place this coming Monday (May 11th 2009), upstairs @ The Roundy. (note: yes, we’re back on Monday!) The event will feature the return of saxophonist Bruce Coates, navigator of avant jazz and post-Cardew experimentalism, and the Irish debut of experimental vocalist and throat singer Jonny Marks. [Details…]
Also performing will be Stet Lab (ir)regulars including Han-earl Park (guitar) and Owen Sutton (drums), and the event will open with a performance by Paul Dowling (bass guitar), Vicky Langan (electronics), and James O’Gorman (guitar).
One of the highlights of the Vortex London Jazz Festival – TIME OUT
Featuring Fyfe Dangerfield (from Guillemots), Gannets posit an alternative jazz history in which 30's swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades.
Fyfe Dangerfield - keyboards + electronics
Alex J Ward - clarinet
Christopher Cundy - bass clarinet
Dominic Lash - double bass
Steve Noble - drums
A duo between two of the worlds Free Improvisation/Free Jazz greats! The Pauls have a long association though the incredible improvising quartet Mujician and have played just about everywhere with just about everyone! For me this promises to be one of the outstanding improvisation gigs of 2009!
The final Stet Lab of 2008 takes place in one week (Monday, December 8th) at 9:00pm, upstairs @ The Roundy. [Details…]
The event will feature Birmingham based saxophonist Bruce Coates—navigator of the boundary between avant jazz and after-Cardew experimentalism. Coates will be performing with composer-performer-installation artist Sarah O’Halloran, improviser-guitarist Han-earl Park, and double bassist Neil O’Loghlen.
The Coates-O’Halloran-Park trio originally kicked-off the first Stet Lab in November 2007. Check out audio recordings of the very first Stet Lab (including the very first six minutes and three seconds) for a sample of what to expect (or not).
Hope to see you there, participating as audience, performer or helper, and thank you for your continued support: we’ll be closing Stet Lab ’08 with a very high note (perhaps from a sopranino saxophone).
