Steve Fishwick - Trumpet; Osian Roberts - Tenor Saxophone; Olivier Slama - Piano; Dave Chamberlain - Bass; Matt Fishwick/Matt Home - Drums
Influences
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers; The Horace Silver Quintet; The Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet; Kenny Dorham & The Jazz Prophets; The Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Quintet; The Cannonball Adderley Quintet; The Miles Davis Quintet; Lee Morgan; Sonny Rollins; The MaxRoach/Clifford Brown Quintet; Stanley Turrentine; Cedar Walton; The 3 Sounds; The Red Garland Quintet + Trios; Dexter Gordon; Griff & Lock; Sonny Stitt; Gene Ammons; Lou Donaldson; Jackie McLean; Duke Ellington; Count Basie; The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra; The Heath Brothers; Grant Green; Hank Mobley; Duke Pearson; Charles Mingus; Wes Montgomery; Thelonious Monk; John Coltrane; Bobby Timmons; Kenny Drew; Tommy Flanagan; J.J. Johnson; Freddie Hubbard; Clifford Jordan; Tadd Dameron; Milt Jackson; Charlie Parker; Dizzy Gillespie; Johnny Coles; Joe Henderson; Fats Navarro...etc.
Steve Fishwick, his brother Matt, and Osian Roberts have been friends since 1994, when they met on the jazz course at The Royal Academy Of Music in London. Since then, the three have worked and rehearsed together on a regular basis in their own groups, as well as in the ranks of other bands (Mike Carr's Blue Note Quartet; The Matt Wates Sextet etc.). In 2001 they met a group of French musicians living in London who shared the same taste in music, and began to congregate weekly for an informal jam session, playing arrangements from their favourite records. Eventually, the group started to perform regularly on the London jazz scene (at the 606 Club, the 100 Club, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall etc.).
The line-up has changed since those early days - the only remaining Frenchman being the pianist Olivier Slama, who is joined in the rhythm section by bass virtuoso Dave Chamberlain.
In 2003, they recorded their first album on the Hard Bop Records label - “Too Much!”(HBR33001) - at Richard Dunn’s studio in Cardiff. Since then they’ve been touring (with support from Jazz Services) and performing regularly across the UK, as far a field as St.Ives, Lincoln, Southend and Cardiff, as well as making festival appearances in Brecon, Scarborough and Swanage.
Their latest album - On The Up And Up (HBR33003) - features the original compositions of Steve and Osian, and some unique arrangements of more familiar material. The album also introduces the talents of the band's newest member, drummer Matt Home, who's been performing live with the band since Matt Fishwick moved to New York (although Matt Fishwick is still very much a member of the group, and also features prominently on the new album).
Their third album (recorded in January 2007 at Nola Studios in New York) features two very special guests – Jazz Legend Cedar Walton and the great Peter Washington – and is due for release this summer.
Hi Osian, just to let you know we'll be down your way on the 18th Sept, we're playing at Porthcawl Grand Pavilion, Jazz in Stage Door - 8pm! Jamie (Brownfield/Byrne Quintet)
Hello to THE OSIAN ROBERTS/STEVE FISHWICK QUINTET,
Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends!
We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too.
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Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.
We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.
What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
Thank you for your friendship. Please check out the my flyer for the great lineup of musicians I’m going to be working with at the Iridium Jazz Club on June 16th. I am so excited! Peace, Pat Holley
By patholley at 2009-05-16
oi steve , oi osian . me and ivor are starting our own jam night , the first one is june the 1st at peter parkers rock n roll club on denmark street . starts at 9pm and 3 quid entry or less to really skint jazzers .... STEVE ASHWORTH and COLIN CAMPBELL on the first night ... everyone is welcome !!!! cheers , mike .
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