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He founded Wild Card and recorded/produced his debut album "Mixity" in 2008.
Clement Regert is Broadly travelling the same nu-Jazz path as Italy's Nicola Conte but takes a better solo." Evening Standard.
Sophie Alloway is one of the most in demand drummer in the UK.
She has toured the UK, Australia, and new Zealand with Roots Manuva, As well as performing on later with Jools Holland, Mercury Music Prize, BBC Introducing and playing festival such as London Jazz Festival, Glastonbury and Bestival. She has also toured with the Michael Jackson musical "Thriller".
Recording session for Roots Manuva, Wild Card, Hazel O'Connor, Wagga Man/Theo Gordon (producer), John Hogg as well as numerous recordings as a jazz drummer.
Originally from Australia now residing in London since 2004. Andrew Noble performs across town with a variety of jazz groove and Latin projects.
During his time he has performed with saxophonist Derek Nash, Roberto Manzin, Renato D'Aiello, Christian Brewer, Simon Spillet, Ed Jones, Toni Kofi and Gary Plumey, conger Robin Jones, Guitarists Jim Mullen and Carl Orr, singer Ola Onabule and Kenny Thomas and nine degres below zero.
He has also performed at Edinburgh Fringe Fest, London Jazz Festival, Royal Albert Hall, Goodwood Fest of speed, The British Jazz Fest, Music live at Birmingham NEC, All out Guitar Fest, Marlborough Jazz Fest, The Teignmouth Jazz Fest and The Isle of Wight Int. Jazz Festival.
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Wild Card: Cabin 19 Fever
by Mike Jurkovic
Cabin 19 Fever lifts from its lilting opening notes into one of those fun, poppingly good discs aimed to satisfy jazz purists and sceptics alike. Crackling with a jubilant, Euro/Afro/Cuban/Latin flare, London-based guitarist Clement Regert's Wild Card picks up where it left off on 2019's heady and exuberant Beast from the East (Top End Records) Sticking with his winning modus operandi of importing guest musicians into the Wild Card core of drummer Sophie Alloway and Australian organist Andrew ...
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by Chris May
The impact of Jimmy Smith's organ trio in the mid 1950s was by all accounts massive. Nothing quite like it had been heard before in popular music. Smith unleashed a wailing, high decibel (for the era) monster which was also capable of expressing gentler moods. Audiences and record buyers went ape and Smith's label, Blue Note, got some sustaining cash-flow. Other labels could not get on the bandwagon fast enough and dozens of similar lineups emerged. But like many sensations, ...
read moreWild Card: Life Stories
by Jerome Wilson
When British youth started picking up on the music coming out of America in the Fifties and Sixties their tastes were widespread. While some kids loved the early rock & roll of Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly or the blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, others grabbed onto the jazz played by the likes of Mose Allison and Jimmy Smith and saw nothing wrong with combining all three. That concept evolved over decades, scooping up other types of music ...
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by Mike Jurkovic
Two things I'll readily admit about Clement Regert's Wild Card and its new offering, Life Stories are: 1--wild isn't the right adjective. A more fitting descriptor is fearless, because this feverish ensemble isn't afraid to bring on the funk, the bop, the pop, the swing or Afro-Blue when they want to; and 2--the spoken word “Intro," even if they are words used by Martin Luther King, Jr., comes off as a sort of jazz manifesto, which isn't necessary given the ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
Wild Card is, at its heart, an organ trio--guitarist and composer Clément Régert, organist Andrew Noble and drummer Sophie Alloway-- joined on Life Stories by a series of guests including trumpeter Graeme Flowers who was also an ever-present guest on the band's previous album, Organic Riot (Top End Records, 2015). Life Stories boasts a similar mix of instruments, voices and tunes to the previous album (although most of the guest players are new to the line-up) and, as before, funky ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
Music can signal rebellion, initiate change, influence the thoughts of an entire generation. Or it can cause thousands of disparate individuals to get up and dance and generally have a good time. Organic Riot, the third album from London-based funksters Wild Card, may not signal incipient revolution but it's certainly got the good-time, get up and dance bit sorted. Guitarist and composer Clement Regert leads Wild Card: drummer Sophie Alloway and Hammond organist Andrew Noble complete the core ...
read moreThe French Horn, That Wild Card of the Orchestra
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Michael Ricci
The modern French horn, with its complex tubing and finger keys at the center, has come a long way from its hunting party origins. Orchestral instruments don't come more treacherous than the French horn, either for the musicians who play it, or, when the going gets rough, for the listeners who find themselves within earshot. Sometimes you wonder how the instrument found its way from the hunting lodge to the orchestra. At the Mostly Mozart Festival in recent weeks, the ...
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