Malcolm Atkins, Nick Benda, Chris Brown, Camilla Cancantata, Miles Doubleday, Helen Edwards, Jill Elliott, Trish Elphinstone, Julian Faultless, Bruno Guastalla, Darren Hasson-Davis, Julie Hamilton, Alexander Hawkins, Chris Hills, Dominic Lash, Pete McPhail, Paul Medley, Francesco Serpetti, David Stent, Chris Stubbs, Roger Telford, Pat Thomas, Sarah Verney Caird
Oxford Improvisers was established in 2001 to promote concerts and provide a source of relevant information and to continue the work begun by the Oxford Improvisers' Co-Operative in the 1980s.
We run concerts at a variety of venues around Oxford, including a residency at the Port Mahon on the second Wednesday of the month, featuring outstanding guests from all over the world as well as musicians from Oxford's thriving community of improvisers.
If you're interested in exciting and risk taking live music played by amazingly creative musicians, please come and check out one of our gigs!
We also run a regular informal playing session most Mondays at 7:30pm - interested musicians please contact us. We are also always interested in new musicians to join the Oxford Improvisers Orchestra.
Rod Poole 1962 - 2007
Rod Poole, pioneering acoustic guitar player and founding member of the Oxford Improvisers Co-Operative (the 1980s predecessor of Oxford Improvisers), has been senselessly murdered in Hollywood. A site dedicated to his memory can be found here.
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