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Martin Speake Quartet at Herts Jazz Club
Courtesy of Stephen Hyde | Posted on May 19, 2012
Where
Herts Jazz Club
Campus West
Welwyn Garden City
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When
Sun, June 3, 2012
7.45-10.30pm
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Musicians
Martin Speake
saxophone, altoBarry Greene
guitar, electricDave Green
bass, acousticJeff Williams
drumsAbout
Martin leads a broad range of groups and he continues to be influenced by many musicians and styles of music. Apart from these projects of his own, Martin has also performed with Paul Motian, Bobo Stenson, Loose Tubes, Stan Tracey, Django Bates, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim and the Royal Shakespeare Company among others. He is saxophone professor and contemporary music co-ordinator on the Royal Academy of Music Jazz Course and saxophone teacher at Middlesex University. He has also composed music for the Associated Board jazz piano syllabus and a solo saxophone piece for Faber Music.
Citing Lee Konitz, Charlie Parker, Warne Marsh, Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, Steve Coleman, Rabih Abou Khalil, and Paul Motian as major influences, Martin has developed a personal musical voice that expresses a deep understanding of the history and language of Jazz with individuality as an improviser that is intelligent, melodic, cool, complex, direct, beautiful and profound....