2015

The Mopomoso Xmas Xtravaganza is a cross between a party and a celebration of all things improvised, celebrating the music in a series of 5 – 10 minute cameo sets: Lynch / Thompson Nortey / Ren / Bennett Martin Vishnick Casserley / Hackett Stoddart / Ross Hallett / Hutchinson / Sands / Wang / Pignon Bohman / Northover Eastley / Beresford / Solberg Mackness / Minton / Blunt / Bennett Brie / Gurung / Day Chapman / West / Hutchinson Panton / Day Grant / Weston Chen / Wang / Hallett / Morris / Russell Tomlinson / Wilkinson / Tucker / Solberg The Mopomoso Team (Chondros/ Eyles/ Grant/ Russell/ Tucker)

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• Chefa Alonso, Barbara Meyer & Cova Villages
• Gianni Mimmo, Gianni Lenoci, Cristiano Calcagnile & Ove Volquartz
• Phil Marks, Rex Casswell & Paul Obermayer
• Stefan Keune & John Russell

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• John Butcher, Emilio Gordoa & Nicola Hein
• Sture Ericson, John Russell & Raymond Strid

📍 Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ

• Viv Corringham & Shaun Blezard
• Hannes Buder
• Clive Bell, Richard Scott & David Ross
• Charlie Collins & Yoko Miura

📍 Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ

Fete Quaqua 2015 Fourteen musicians from seven countries appear in different combinations over three concerts. Each concert begins and ends with a Tutti improvisation. Set 1: Tutt Set 2: Eastley / Fukuda / Solberg / Strandberg / Ward Set 3: Lauro / Zabelka Set 4: Burn / Marshall / Nørstebø / Watanabe Set 5: Eastley / Lauro / Russell / Solberg / Smyth / Winters Set 6: Burn / Eastley / Russell / Solberg / Ward Set 7: Fukuda / Lauro / Smyth / Strandberg / Winters Set 8: Eastley / Nørstebø Set 9: Marshall / Russell / Smyth / Zabelka / Watanabe Set 10: Burn/ Nørstebø/ Strandberg/ Ward/ Watanabe/ Winters/ Zabelka Set 11: Fukuda / Russell Set 12: Tutti Chris Burn (trumpet, piano) UK www.

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• Neil Metcalfe & John Rangecroft
• Dave Tucker (guitar), Hannah Marshal & Steve Noble
• Veryan Weston

📍 Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ

• Kay Grant & Ntshuks Bonga
• Georges Paul
• John Russell & Roger Turner

📍 Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ

• Steve Beresford & Beibei Wang
• Paul Pignon & Thomas Bjelkeborn
• John Russell

📍 Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ

• Linda Sharrock, Charlie Collins, John Jasnoch & Derek Saw

📍 Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ

• Anthony Donovan, Charlie Collins & Ian Simpson
• Stephen Grew, Phillip Marks, Seth Bennett & Matt Robinson
• Alison Blunt & Mark Sanders
• Adam Bohman, JJ Duerinckx & Tom Jackson

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• Emmanuel Cremer, Lionel Garcin, Dominic Lash & Alex Ward
• Chris Burn
• Kay Grant & Martin Speake

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• Mick Beck, Anton Hunter & Johnny Hunter
• Adrian Northover & Daniel Thompson
• Gianni Mimmo & Harri Sjoestroem

📍 Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ