Gilad Atzmon & Alan Barnes w/The OHE at Hen And Chicken

Atzmon and Barnes have collaborated often on differing projects over ten years but this is the first time they have toured with Atzmon’s band, ‘The OHE’. This promises to be an outstanding night of jazz with two of the most uncompromising exponents of the instruments they command, and they play a lot between them. Both award winners on saxes and clarinets in particular. Fireworks are sure to follow them wherever they go, and with that the great humour for which they both also known.

Gilad Atzmon is a multi-instrumentalist. He plays saxophones, clarinet and ethnic woodwind instruments, as well as accordion and practically any other bit of kit he can get his hands on. In 2000 Gilad founded the Orient House Ensemble (OHE) in London and started re-defining his own roots in the light of his emerging ethical awareness. He found that sound he had been looking for. Over the years Gilad Atzmon's music has moved increasingly toward a cultural hybrid. As a bandleader and reed specialist, he has been amazing his listeners with his powerful personal style that combines great bebop artistry and Middle-Eastern roots in a sophisticated, sometimes ironical manner. Influenced by Coltrane’s powerful approach on the sax, Gilad's live performances are simply breathtaking and overwhelming....

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Atzmon and Barnes have collaborated often on differing projects over ten years but this is the first time they have toured with Atzmon’s band, ‘The OHE’. This promises to be an outstanding night of jazz with two of the most uncompromising exponents of the instruments they command, and they play a lot between them. Both award winners on saxes and clarinets in particular. Fireworks are sure to follow them wherever they go, and with that the great humour for which they both also known.

Gilad Atzmon is a multi-instrumentalist. He plays saxophones, clarinet and ethnic woodwind instruments, as well as accordion and practically any other bit of kit he can get his hands on. In 2000 Gilad founded the Orient House Ensemble (OHE) in London and started re-defining his own roots in the light of his emerging ethical awareness. He found that sound he had been looking for. Over the years Gilad Atzmon's music has moved increasingly toward a cultural hybrid. As a bandleader and reed specialist, he has been amazing his listeners with his powerful personal style that combines great bebop artistry and Middle-Eastern roots in a sophisticated, sometimes ironical manner. Influenced by Coltrane’s powerful approach on the sax, Gilad's live performances are simply breathtaking and overwhelming.

Gilad Atzmon, the expat Israeli saxophonist/clarinetist, combines thrilling jazz musicianship with a maverick political intelligence ~ The Guardian ****

In British jazz, the young Alan Barnes was recognized – and hired – by the established greats of the time: Stan Tracy, John Dankworth, Kenny Baker, Bob Wilber, and Humphrey Lyttelton. But he is equally respected for his longstanding and fruitful collaborations with contemporaries such as David Newton, Bruce Adams, and guitarist Martin Taylor. Alan Barnes’s unique musicianship, indefatigable touring, and warm rapport with audiences have made him uniquely popular in British jazz. He has received over 25 British Jazz Awards in his career and still notching them up each year. He’s also worked with diverse artists from Jools Holland, Brian Ferry, Michel le Grande and Jamie Cullum to Westlife and Bjork.

Barnes plays music that was radical 50 years ago but he infuses it with so much passion and energy you could believe it was minted on the spot, which is always part of the story with jazz. ~ John L Walters, The Guardian.

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