Chris Ingham's REBOP inspired by ....  the imagination of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock & Joe Henderson

The Blue Note Years

Tuesday April 23

Chris Ingham's REBOP inspired by ...
the imagination of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock & Joe Henderson

 

at Pizza Express Live Dean Street

These three titans of jazz, two still very much alive, together span 150 years of imaginative record breaking music making. Pianist Chris Ingham, leading his Mighty REBOP Sextet, having  built a reputation for sold out concerts performing the music of Miles Davis and others from the Bebop and Hard Bop eras, launches our Blue Note Years Series.

 

This concert captures the game changing compositions of Herbie Hancock, the hard driving saxophone style of Joe Henderson and the ever innovative modal capabilities of Wayne Shorter, with REBOP adding their own sensitivities and improvisations.

 

 

Doors open 7pm.

Music at 8.30pm

Tickets: £23

 

 

 
 

Blue Note is unquestionably the most iconic jazz label there has ever been. It may well be the most iconic record label of all time. When Alfred Lion started the label in 1939, recording boogie woogie pianists, his intention was to bring to the public the kind of music that he felt was important. It is a mission from which he never wavered, nor have the Blue Note albums that have followed in his illustrious footsteps.

Blue Note’s very first press release stated…

“Blue Note Records are designed simply to serve the uncompromising expressions of hot jazz or swing, in general. Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression. By virtue of its significance in place, time and circumstance, it possesses its own tradition, artistic standards and audience that keep it alive. Hot jazz, therefore, is expression and communication, a musical and social manifestation, and Blue Note records are concerned with identifying its impulse, not its sensational and commercial adornments.”

And this is what has driven the label onwards to the point where it is a brand recognised the world over for the ‘finest in jazz’. Blue Note has become the major brand, and remain so, by consistently delivering quality music. The thousands of Blue Note albums down the years attest to this fact.

Alfred Lion was the most perfect Artist and Repertoire operator. His ability to recognise and encourage great musicians, link them into groups, with his natural feeling for great music was unsurpassed.

Rudy Van Gelder was the ace Blue Note specialist jazz recording engineer. He recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many recognised as classics, in a career which spanned more than half a century.

The instantly recognisable Blue Note style, owed much to the co-founder and original photographer Francis Wolff, supported by original designers, Paul Bacon, Reid Miles & John Hermansader.

Other forthcoming events in this series