Jazz Concert: Outside the Light: Will Barnes Quartet
st giles' church
sat 24 oct · 7.30pm
£15-£28, book online or available on the door (cash or card)
live music
Contemporary Piano and saxophone: 'Naissance' with John Law and Jon Lloyd
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Hosted for Regent's Park College 'Jazz Spiritualities'. Open, fresh and hugely interactive
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Naissance is a piano and saxophone duo creating open, meditative musical conversations at the intersection of european contemporary music, classical minimalism, world music, and jazz. Their 2024 album on 33 jazz follows a previous duo project and has been praised for its serene, melodic quality. Performing in oxford as part of regent's park college's jazz spiritualities series, this is intimate and improvisatory music from two uk jazz musicians with over 30 years of collaboration.
“a beautiful recording with a serenity and sense of open accomplishment all its own”
“wide-ranging musical conversations within the arena of european contemporary music; referring to world music and classical minimalism as much as to jazz”
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A piano and saxophone duo rooted in european contemporary jazz, blending classical rigour with spontaneous improvisation to create music that is lyrical, spacious, and quietly atmospheric. Their 2024 album naissance, released on bandcamp, weaves original compositions with ambient textures drawn from renaissance vocal music. John law and jon lloyd have collaborated since 1990, with recordings across labels including leo records and hatology.
“combining the vocabularies of jazz and classical in a singular and seamless way, coalescing improvisational surprise and a deep elegiac musicality…”
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