Paul Jolly
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Paul Jolly is a saxophonist, clarinettist and flutist working within the fields of contemporary improvised since 1969, when he joined the iconic People Band with whom he still performs.
Photo by Seán Kelly
Paul Jolly is a saxophonist, clarinettist and flutist working within the fields of contemporary improvised since 1969, when he joined the iconic People Band with whom he still performs.
Ivor Kallin plays viola with the London Improvisers Orchestra, electric violin with Electrio, bass and voice with the Glowering Figs, and hosts a weekly radio show on Resonance FM as Ambrosia Rasputin, and the last time he had his hair cut, it cost 30p.
British musician, trumpeter and flugelhorn player Charlotte Keeffe wears her love for free improvisation, jazz and experimental music on her sleeve. Whether performing regularly as a soloist (Sound Brush), or leading a variety of different ensembles, including her Right Here, Right Now Quartet, she carefully carves out spaces for the free movement of ideas and individual expression.
Caroline Kraabel has performed and recorded with improvisers including Robert Wyatt, Louis Moholo, Cleveland Watkiss, Hyelim Kim, Annie Lewandowski, Susan Alcorn, Mark Sanders and Veryan Weston (the trio CD – Playtime, and a duo CD project on Emanem - Five Shadows.
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Ross Lambert is an Irish free improvisation guitarist and “magnetic and vibrating sources” player. Visual artist. Writer. Designer.
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Dominic Lash is a freely improvising double bassist and electric guitarist who the Free Jazz Collective has called an “exceptional creative musician”. He also both writes and performs composed music and, as an academic, researches and writes about film.
Tracy Lisk is a percussionist who mainly performs on drum set, based in Philadelphia PA. Lisk’s history as a painter informs the substance of her improvisations which contain references to rhythmic structures while maintaining a fluid, suspended continuity.
Over the years Chris Hill, Alan Newcombe and James O'Sullivan have played as regulars at Eddie Prevost’s Workshop and as performers in their own right on the London improvisation and sound art scene. More recently pursuing their own brand of maximal improvisation as LUFT, the trio thrives on a no compromise approach that may lurch between cinematic rumblings, fractured keening, or melancholic disarray at the drop of a hat.
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Sue Lynch studied fine art at Coventry College of Art. She currently runs The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman and Adrian Northover.
Performs with Adam Bohman, Eddie Prevost, Anna Homler, Richard Sanderson, Steve Noble, Crystabel Riley, Caroline Kraabel, Sharon Gal and N.O.Moore.
Recently performed as part of Tarek Atoui’s Reverse Collection at The Tate Modern and performs with the Psychedelic Afro Beat Sudanese band The Scorpios.
Formed, Paradise Yard in 2016-an electro accoustic ensemble, featuring women improvisers, performing at Iklectik, Cafe Oto and The ICA.In 2018, performed at 3 Klange Tag Music &Word Festival, Switzerland with Hildegard Kleeb, at Womad BBC Stage and, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival (Utrecht) with The Scorpios. Solo performance at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre 2019.
British pianist Alex Maguire remembers improvising on the piano before he received any lessons, which started at age eight.