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Grand Union Orchestra

About Grand Union Orchestra

Grand Union, the UK's original and most diverse world/jazz orchestra was established in 1984.  Grand Union  is the acknowledged pioneer and leading exponent of original, cross-cultural music making. It assembles musicians from virtually every part of the world to create and perform new work drawing on their own experience, culture and musical background.

In Britain today it is more important than ever to bring people of all ages and cultures together to create work that reflects and responds to our country's ever-widening demographic, creating unity and healing division.

Carlos Lopez-Real

Carlos Lopez-Real sax Carlos’ involvement with the F-IRE collective includes recording and touring with Justin Quinn (featured on his award-winning album ‘Before I Forget’), Tom Arthurs’ Centripede, Jonathan Bratoeff’s Quintet, Barak Schmool’s Meta Meta and the F-IRE large ensemble. He has collaborated with Zoe Rahman, Gary Husband and the Nicolas Meier Group. Carlos studied Indian music and held the sax chair in John Mayer’s classic band Indo-Jazz Fusions. He also features with salsa king Roberto Pla and the Tito Puente orchestra. Carlos is the founder of ‘e17 jazz’, a new East London-based collective spawned out of both F-IRE and LOOP associations, whose members include Brigitte Beraha, John Turville, Adam Bishop, Will Collier and Dave Manington

Adam Glasser

Born: September 20, 1955

Originally from South Africa Adam Glasser plays piano & keyboards. Is also one of the UK's leading chromatic harmonica players, appearing on many gigs, sessions and recordings. some major gigs include... Joe Zawinul, Sting, the Eurythmics, BBC Concert Orchestra, Celebrate South Africa, Trafalgar Square Numerous pop and jazz session recordings include: Zizi Possi (Bossa for Universal Artists, Brazil), Dominic Miller (Second Nature & Fourth Wall), Carl Orr (Absolute Freedom featuring Billy Cobham), Incognito, Anita Wardell.

Anthony Everest

An Internet artist has held the No1 position on UK Jazz Charts ARTISTE for an incredible 15 weeks and No1 Global Jazz Charts Artiste for 4 Weeks, simultaneously; beating Jamie Culum (No4), James Morrison, James Blunt and was Higher than, Usher, Rhiannna and Madonna by at least 10 places, or more in the All Genre Charts between Oct 2008 to Jan 2009. Singer/songwriter Anthony Everest is relatively unknown except to his fans and the hundreds of people who have downloaded his track Follow Your Dreams, but it was doing just that which led to his change of fortune. “I learn from falling, then I rise, and rise and rise again...” Everest is an extra ordinary talented artiste (Songwriter) whose vocal dexterity stretches across Jazz, Folk, Pop, Blues, Soul music and even Motown

Jerry Wigens

Born: February 10, 1955

I was inspired to start playing in the late 60s/early 70s by British progressive bands such as Soft Machine and avant American jazzers and jazz rockers like Coltrane, Miles Davis and Chicago. Guitar has always been my main instrument but I have been involved in the London improvisation scene for nearly twenty years or so as a clarinetist in addition to playing guitar and mandolin. I worked my way through various bands in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s and now enjoy a varied and diverse range of musical activities from the free-jazz explorations of the band Glowering Figs (with Ivor Kallin (bass/vocals) and Dave Fowler (drums) to various stable combinations of improvisers, notably a trio with violinist Sylvia Hallett and flautist/vocalist Thomas Kumlehn, Esha Jotwe Teka

Philip Clemo

Born: August 3, 1964

Philip Clemo is a UK-based artist working in music, sound-design, film and live performance.

He has released 6 critically acclaimed albums, working with a diverse group of musicians and creating complex soundworlds that explore form, improvisation, sound-design, electronica and orchestration. His 7th album Through the Wave of Blue is released on November 1st, 2024.

Clemo performs internationally with his Dream Maps multi-media project with live band and mesmeric and interactive imagery. His work has been shown around the world, including at international film festivals and the V&A Museum and Eden Project in the UK.

Helen Petts

Visual artist and film-maker, working extensively in the field of free improvised and experimental music and live art both in still photography and video. Currently working on "Adventures in the House of Memory" - large collaborative film with visual artist Anne Bean and many musicians, live artists, pyrotechnicians who worked with Paul Burwell, percussionist, founder member of the London Musician's Collective and member of the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, who died in 2007 - for exhibition at Matts Gallery April 2009. See work in progress on www.vimeo.com/helenpetts More personal art practice involves extremely solitary abstract/landscape based work mainly in video and sound. Co-promoter (with guitarist John Russell) of Mopomoso free improvised music night at the Vortex Jazz Club

Adriano Adewale

Throw aside preconceived musical prejudices, abandon all attempts to catalogue: a rich chemistry of cultural influences is at work in when the Adriano Adewale Group stop onto the stage. Rooted in the musical traditions of Nigeria, Angola and Brazil and infused with contemporary European classical and jazz styles, their debut album SEMENTES is a colourful cocktail of infectiously funky rhythms and intimate soulful ballads peppered with free-jazz improvisation.

Sarah Moule

Born: August 5, 1961

During the 2020 lockdown Sarah Moule recorded her fifth studio album, Stormy Emotions. It is released on CD 19th March and Download 3rd May on 33JAZZ (33JAZZ285). The ten previously unrecorded songs by American lyricist the late Fran Landesman (Sring Can Really Hang You Up The Most) and British composer Simon Wallace, bring to 45 the number of Landesman/Wallace songs Sarah has introduced over her 5 albums. Her four previous albums are: 'Songs From The Floating World' (Red Ram Records 2014) 'A Lazy Kind Of Love' (Red Ram Records 2008) Something's Gotta Give (Linn Records 2004) It's A Nice Thought (Linn Records, 2002)

Gaetano Di Giacomo

Drummer | Composer | Educator Originally from Italy Gaetano Di Giacomo studied drums and percussion in Bologna before obtaining a degree in Drums and Music Performance from Trinity College after moving to the UK. In the early part of his career, Gaetano cut his teeth working on the jazz and pop scene travelling extensively and performing at festivals and venues in Italy, UK, Japan, Finland, USA, France, Norway, Denmark. ​ It wasn't long before Gaetano attracted the attention of the UK jazz scene's top players. A versatile drummer, Gaetano takes an active role in many aspects of the London Jazz scene