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Corrie Dick's "sun Swells" at Seven
Courtesy of JazzLeeds | Posted on March 29, 2023
When
Sun, April 30, 2023
13:30
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Musicians
Corrie Dick
drumsRebecka Edlund
vocalsNorman Willmore
vocalsTara Cunningham
guitarCaius Williams
bassAbout
To celebrate International Jazz Day we have a band led by the rhythmic epicentre of a new era of innovative British jazz is Corrie Dick, a musician and composer specialising in euphoric, sonically-inventive drumming.
He is lauded for his dynamism, his melodic slant and for his playfully subversive take on style and genre. His 2015 release Impossible Things which skilfully fused Celtic folk and contemporary jazz with new takes on African rhythms culminated in sold out touring and concerts across the UK.
Now an active participant in South East London’s evergreen arts scene, Deptford, the young master of contemporary drumming has studied traditional music in Ghana and Morocco where the grooves are rich and layered, and in his home land, Scotland, where rhythm and melody have melded for centuries....