Out Front at The Beaver

A UK super group is next up at North Devon Jazz Club in The Beaver, Appledore on 1st June. Called Out Front the band will perform music from their album Buried Webs which is inspired by two of jazz’s greatest ‘inside-outside’ masters; Booker Little and Andrew Hill. Drawing on a wealth of fabulous compositions and featuring a rich line-up of three horns, drums and bass, the band explores the vast possibilities of this music, from joyous straight ahead time playing to the most open of improvisation.

Led by trumpeter Nick Malcolm the band includes alto saxophonist Jason Yarde, tenor saxophonist Jake McMurchie, bass player Olie Brice and drummer Dave Smith. Nick Malcolm has been praised by Bebop Spoken Here as ‘a supremely gifted musician…a trumpet player for the 21st century’. Jason Yarde is one of the UK’s top saxophonists who has, according to The Guardian ’quietly blossomed to World Class’, while fellow saxophonist Jake McMurchie is the key driving force behind the award-winning band Get The Blessing. Jazz writer Brian Morton commented that bassist Olie Brice ‘makes the entire body of his bass sing’ while drummer Dave Smith, best known for his work with Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters, exhibits, according to the LA Times, ‘a mastery of irresistible rhythms’.

The gig starts at 8:30pm and is hosted by the North Devon Jazz Club.

This event has been booked by The North Devon Jazz Club who have kindly agreed to include it in the Appledore Music Festival programme.