Mornington Lockett &
David Gordon
with The Spin Trio –
‘A Tribute To Michael Brecker’
(an Oxford Jazz Festival gig)

Thursday 1 April – £10 conc £8 Stud £6

Our final gig of this season sees two great contemporary players join the Spin Trio as part of the Oxford Jazz Festival.  On this gig, we remember the playing and composing of the great Michael Brecker who died so tragically in 2007.  Brecker has been one of the most influential players of the last 25 years and we hope to bring to life his contribution to so many different bands and styles within jazz. On this gig, we feature two great soloists, Mornington Lockett and David Gordon, both of whom are well known to jazz audiences throughout the UK.

Mornington has been at the forefront of UK jazz since joining Ronnie Scott’s Quintet in 1990.  From  that time he was worked with just about every significant player on the scene but highlights include his playing with the extraordinary Cuban trumpeter, Arturo Sandoval, and of course his playing in the New Jazz Couriers, which since 2001 has been gigging round just about every serious jazz venue in Britain.  On keyboards, David Gordon is almost unique in his playing at astonishingly high level within both Baroque music and jazz.  As a harpsichordist, David works reqularly with Baroque violinist superstar, Andrew Manze and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.  The other half of his musical life, jazz piano,  has taken him from Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London to the Red Sea Jazz Festival and the Copenhagen Jazzhouse, with any number of smoky dives on the way. He has toured international jazz festivals and appeared on four critically acclaimed CDs with the Theo Travis Band. He tours, and has made recordings, with a trio of his own as well as with the Christian Garrick quartet and works in a duo with jazz singer Jacqui Dankworth.

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Dave Gordon website