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Turner Sims International Jazz Day Online Broadcast at Turner Sims
Courtesy of Jo Roberts | Posted on April 26, 2021
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Fri, April 30, 2021
19:00
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Rebecca Nash – solo
Rebecca Nash piano
Denys Baptiste The Late Trane
Denys Baptiste tenor saxophone
Nikki Yeoh piano, keyboards
Rod Youngs drums
Larry Bartley bass
Kevin Le Gendre presenter
Join Turner Sims as we mark International Jazz Day 2021 with an exclusive double bill of British jazz talent presented direct from the concert hall and hosted by journalist and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre.
Saxophonist and composer Denys Baptiste is one of most celebrated and important jazz musicians in the UK. For this special broadcast Denys revisits music from his much heralded Edition Records release The Late Trane, named an Album of the Year by Jazzwise and at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, and nominated for a Jazz FM Award. In a strong musical statement, Baptiste re-imagines the late period music of John Coltrane, that balances the master saxophonist’s unique artistic vision with the visceral emotions and cosmic references that encompass Coltrane’s later work. The Late Trane is a reverent acknowledgement of this remarkable man and his music, by an artist with his own voice and his own sense of destiny....