7:30 PM
Positive Knowledge feat. Oluyemi Thomas bass clarinet, voice, movement & Ijeoma Thomas voice, percussion
8:30 PM
Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey duo (NY)
Tom Rainey has played with American jazz saxophonist and composer Tim Berne, and also with Simon Nabatov. A prolific session musician, he has appeared on close to eighty recordings over a career spanning some 25 years.
In the summers of 1998 and 1999, Ingrid studied with renowned saxophonist and educator David Liebman in the USA.
She was nominated as ‘Rising Star of the Year’ in the BT Jazz Awards for 1999.
Also in 1999 Ingrid completed the postgraduate jazz course at the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama.
During that year she studied and performed with David Liebman, Kenny Wheeler, Billy Cobham, Stan Sulzman and Jean Toussaint.
2004 Ingrid was awarded the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation as part of the F-ire Collective and in 2005 she was nominated for the BBC Award as 'Rising Star'
In January 2006 Ingrid was awarded the prestigious Fellowship for Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation.
Ingrid has been interested inworking in different fields and has worked with contemporary classical group 'The Continuum Ensemble'
and and theatre director Annabel Arden as well as with dancer/choreographer Frauke Requardt who choreographed a show to Ingrid's music.
Performed with: Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker, Norma Winstone, David Liebman, Billy Cobham, Jean Toussaint, Stan Sulzman,
Django Bates’ Human Chain, Guinga, Jazz Jamaica Allstars, Lol Coxhill, Verywn Weston, US cult procucer David Axelrod,
soul singers Dina Carroll and Gabrielle, Souxie And The Banshees, Seb Rochford’s Polar Bear, Jason Yarde,
Grand Union Orchestra, Roberto Pla, Sharon Wrey’s Jazz Xchange, The Continuum Ensemble, Frauke Requardt's dance company,
Tom Arthurs and many more.
Oluyemi & Ijeoma Thomas known as Positive Knowledge has recorded & performed together for the past two decades, composing and sharing their joyful Creative World Music Systems with lovers of music and poetry around the world.
Ijeoma Thomas - Wordsmith, spoken word artist, poet vocalist and teacher believes "all art is a gift of the Holy Spirit."
Composer, teacher & multi-reed musician (bass clarinet, saxophones) Oluyemi Thomas brings elements of life and work to the flow & he believes: "The musician's art is among those arts worthy of the highest praise..."
As a great enhancement to their compositional approaches, Positive Knowledge continues to perform throughout the United States, Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, Israel, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands which has resulted in a rich multifaceted
vocabulary to date.
They have recorded or performed with such artists as Cecil Taylor, Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Alan Silva, Peter Kowald, Henry Kaiser,William Parker, Miya Masaoka & Gino Robair, "Kidd" Edward Jordan.
Cost: $10/$8