Thu, 12 Dec
|The Chintz
245 - Larry Stabbins' Free Jazz Trio
FREE ENTRY During a long and varied musical career saxophonist Larry Stabbins has worked with most of the important figures at the cutting edge of European Jazz and Improvisation from Mike Westbrook to Keith Tippett and Germany’s Peter Brotzmann as well as working with Robert Wyatt and Jerry Dammer.
Time & Location
12 Dec 2024, 21:30 – 23:30
The Chintz, The Dental Surgery Old Brewery Yard, Falmouth TR11 2BY, UK
About The Event
Alongside this he played in the seminal pop group Weekend and formed a key writing partnership with its guitarist Simon Booth. This became the basis for Working Week, a project that took a melange of latin, soul and jazz into the world of pop and dance music. Born out of the burgeoning Latin Jazz Dance scene in London clubs such as the Electric Ballroom and the Wag, the new band mixed jazz with modish Latin dance rhythms and vocals by singers such as Juliet Roberts, Julie Tippetts ne Driscoll, Robert Wyatt and Tracy Thorn. They became a dominating force in the 80s British jazz revival, the movement that made jazz fashionable again, introducing it to a new young audience and instigating a great upsurge in new talent onto the British Jazz Scene. The band toured extensively in Europe and Japan, performing at most of Europe’s major Jazz Festivals, recording fi…