Next Stet Lab will be on Tuesday, February 10th 2009 (note: Tuesday,
not Monday!), upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland [see
map below…].
[Note: performers who want to sit-in, if possible, please contact us
in advance of the event. There are a number of performers this month,
and this is likely to be one of the most complex Labs logistically. As
we’ve stated elsewhere, although we’d like to give as many people an
opportunity to perform, in practice, this may not be feasible. Get in
touch, and we’ll do our best.]
Stet Lab with saxophonist-improviser Paul Dunmall
Tuesday, February 10th 2009 (not Monday!)
9:00 pm (doors: 8:45 pm)
Upstairs @ The Roundy
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland
€10 (€5)
Up to date info at:
http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet/diary/
Cork’s monthly improvised music event, Stet Lab, presents an
extraordinary musical encounter between veteran improviser-saxophonist
Paul Dunmall, Cork-based improvisers, and special guests. This musical
meeting and performance takes place upstairs at The Roundy, Castle
Street, on Tuesday, 10th February 2009 at 9:00 pm.
A virtuoso saxophonist, Dunmall has been described as a “robust and
heavy-hitting performer who has gone on to concentrate largely on free
improvisation without sacrificing a rigorous melodic logic, a sparing
lyricism and the technique to drop in on bebop occasionally” (John
Fordham, The Guardian). He is a groundbreaking innovator within the
international jazz and improvised music traditions, and “a musician
who can wail convincingly without abandoning his intellect” (All Music
Guide).
A sensitive and endlessly inventive collaborator, with a career
spanning thirty years, Dunmall has performed with many musicians
including Alice Coltrane, Barry Guy, Tony Levin, Paul Rogers, Danny
Thompson, Keith Tippett and Johnny Guitar Watson, and as part of
ensembles such as Mujician, London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the
Elton Dean’s ensembles.
“I’m very, very excited to have Paul performing with us,” says Stet
Lab curator and founder Han-earl Park. “I don’t think anyone will
disagree that Paul is our highest profile guest to date, and I have no
doubt that this encounter will have a lasting impact on all our musics—
a transformation!” He adds, “this is the kind of event that Stet Lab
has been preparing for over the last fifteen months—a meeting between
an international saxophone colossus and local improvising musicians—
and I think we’re ready.”
Performing with Dunmall will be a gathering of local improvisers
including vocalist Veronica Tadman, guitarists Kevin Terry, and a trio
of very different bass players—Paul Dowling, Tony O’Connor and Neil
O’Loghlen. The evening will open with a duet between visiting English
guitarist Jamie Smith and the Cork-based guitarist Han-earl Park.
The event will begin at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45 pm) and entry is
€10 (€5).
Stet Lab will return in March with more left-field, real-time musical
interactions.
[Paul Dunmall will also be performing at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery,
UCC, Cork on Wednesday, 11th of February 2009 at 1:10 pm. As part of
the UCC Concert Series (
www.music.ucc.ie), that event will feature
Dunmall with guitarists Han-earl Park and Jamie Smith, and drummer
Mark Sanders.]
further information:
Stet Lab:
http://www.busterandfriends.com/stet
Map to venue:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113338067607923775514.000457912aadfb5a6a529&ll=51.898502,-8.47504&spn=0.003204,0.006856&t=h&z=17