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.
DIATRIBES+JOAO PEDRO VIEGA+PAULO CURADO Travessia dos Respigadores freejazz/electroacoustic improv album on TEST TUBE netlabel music under CC by-nc-nd, copy & share it, thanks
DIATRIBES on tour: 01.10.2009, with dave kane (doublebass),..., Leeds, UK (TBC) 04.10.2009, with London Improvisor Orchestra, café otto, London, UK (TBC) 05.10.2009, with Hannah Marshall (cello) & Kay Grant (voice), st-leonard church, Shoreditch, London, UK 09.10.2009, with Jason Kahn (analog synth) & Christian Weber (doublebass),festival Musiques Obscures II, Spoutnik, Genève, CH 20.10.2009, with Emmanuel Scarpa (drums) & Pierre-Antoine Badaroux (sax), Grand-Guignol, Lyon, F 21.10.2009, with Daniel Monforte (doublebass) & Cutter_off (electronic), La Cave, Bourges, F 22.10.2009, with Daniel Monforte (doublebass), The Black Hawk, Tours, F 23.10.2009, with Jean Bordé (doublebass) + DR(DR)ONE, Café de Paris, Paris, F 25.10.2009, with suboku (trio), Molodoï, Strasbourg, F) 26.10.2009, with Jason Kahn (analog synth) , Tybolin, Bienne, CH 27.10.2009, with Jason Kahn (analog synth) , FIM, Basel, CH 30.10.2009, with jonas imhof (drums), sonarraum 64, Bern, CH
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!