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Manchester Jazz Festival - The Impossible Gentlemen Album Launch at RNCM, Theatre
Courtesy of RNCM | Posted on March 23, 2016
Where
RNCM, Theatre
124 Oxford Road
Manchester
Map
0161 907 5200
When
Tue, July 26, 2016
20:00
Save the date
Musicians
The Impossible Gentlemen
band / ensemble / orchestraIain Dixon
saxophoneMike Walker
guitar, electricGwilym Simcock
pianoSteve Rodby
bass, acousticAdam Nussbaum
drumsAbout
The Anglo-American jazz supergroup, now joined by multi-reeds maestro Iain Dixon, are five unique talents, all superb players in their own right, joining forces to create sparkling, impassioned music with their trademark powerful and immaculate performances.
Their pieces effortlessly embrace jazz, raunchy blues and hard-rocking grooves with the elegance of classical music, delicate vignettes, soaring improvised lines and Pat Metheny-influenced guitar themes. The ensemble’s sound palette is rhythmically intense and harmonically adventurous and the addition of saxophone brings out the band’s melodic drive yet further....