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NeWt at The Rex Hotel Jazz and Blues Bar
Courtesy of NeWt | Posted on June 20, 2012
Where
The Rex Hotel Jazz and Blues Bar
194 Queen Street West
Toronto
Map
416-598-2475
When
Thu, June 28, 2012
3pm
At Door
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Musicians
About
The extraordinary instrumentation of guitar, trombone and drums make NeWt sound like no other group. The common languages are those of jazz and improvisation, however, elements of rock, ambient/electronic and folk/world music are also prevalent in the sound. NeWt's music has been compared to everything from ‘New York underground’ (Tim Berne/Jim Black's Alas No Axis), to ‘Lyrical Post-bop’ (Dave Holland's recent Quintet) and even Stravinsky. Their latest album ‘NeWt 2’ featuring Silke Eberhard from Berlin, has been released by London’s F-IRE Collective to wide critical acclaim. Building on the release of this album, the group toured the UK in the spring of 2011 and were broadcast live on BBC Jazz on 3...