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Performance / Tour

Made In The UK Jazz Concerts Open With Get The Blessing In Rochester And Liane Carroll In Ottawa

Source: Jazz Services UK
June 22, 2012

2012 is the 5th year of the British jazz concert series, Made in the UK, which has brought more than 30 UK jazz groups to Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival since 2008. This year will see many of the groups performing in Canada for the first time starting tonight with the award winning singer-pianist Liane Carroll's appearance at Ottawa Jazz Festival. This evening will also see the first of nine nights of Made in the UK concerts in the Christ ...

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Performance / Tour

Phronesis - USA/Canada Tour: June-July 2011

Source: Jazz Services UK
June 8, 2011

June 14: Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival June 18: Chris' Jazz Café, Philadelphia, PA June 21: Jazz Standard, New York, NY July 1: Montreal Jazz Festival July 2: Ottawa Jazz Festival Described as ..."the most electrifying experience to be had in British jazz" by The Telegraph and"the most exciting and imaginative piano trio since EST" by Jon Newey, Editor of Jazzwise, London-based Danish bassist Jasper Høiby's Phronesis have become the ...

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Performance / Tour

Martin Taylor and Soweto Kinch hit USA as part of "Made in the UK" concert series 2011

Source: Jazz Services UK
June 2, 2011

'Made in the UK,' America's largest series of British Jazz, will showcase four English groups, three Scottish and one from Wales at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (10-18 June 2011). The exciting line up from England includes the Soweto Kinch Quartet, Jason Yarde and Andrew McCormack, Ronnie Scott's All Stars and John Escreet. Martin Taylor and Alison Burns, the Fraser Fifield/Graeme Stephen Duo and Alan Benzie's trio will represent Scotland. Martin Taylor will also perform solo. Representing the Welsh ...

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Recording

"Alive" By Phronesis Released in USA and Canada

Source: Jazz Services UK
August 27, 2010

Phronesis have the ability to excite, inspire and move people in a way that few bands are able to do. Since the release of their second album Green Delay in 2009, Phronesis, led by Danish doublebassist Jasper Høiby, have captured the hearts and minds of British audiences and have developed a fierce reputation as one of the most formidable trios in the UK. With recent acclaimed performances at the Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris and the North Sea Jazz Festival ...

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