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Tim Richards Great Spirit
Friday 3rd November
£12 (£8 concessions and Regulars)
Doors open: 8.30pm Show starts: 9.30pm
The Lemon Tree - Box Office: 01224 642230

Tim Richards (piano / keyboards)
Ed Jones (tenor sax /bass clarinet)
Tony Kofi (baritone sax)
Dick Pearce (trumpet)
Roger Beaujolais (vibes)
Leon Stenning (guitar)
Tom Herbert (bass / electric bass)
Dave Smith (drums)

plus a rare UK appearance by Jari Perkiomaki (alto & soprano saxes) - head of the jazz section of Helsinki's prestigous Sibelius Academy

Founder and leader of the long-lived British modern jazz group SPIRIT LEVEL (1979 * 1999), London-based pianist Tim Richards' style has been described as:

"Luminously funky... Iaced with the blues."
The ROUGH GUIDE to JAZZ

and as:

"A unique mixture formed from his admiration of both the expansive, robust playing of McCoy Tyner and the luminous delicacy of Abdullah Ibrahim."
The TIMES

Tim Richards' first encounter with a piano was at the age of 8 in a dentist's waiting room. After classical piano lessons he began to teach himself jazz and blues from the age of 14, when he saw Thelonious Monk and Otis Spann on TV.

In recent years, Tim has won acclaim as a composer and arranger, writing a contemporary classical piece for violin, cello and piano ("Timetrap", 1998), and developing ideas in the larger instrumental setting of his nine-piece band GREAT SPIRIT, which has featured key players on the British scene such as Pete King, Ed Jones, Gilad Atzmon, Denys Baptiste, Tony Kofi, Jason Yarde, Roger Beaujolais, Seb Rochford and many others. The band's third UK tour took place in April 2005 coinciding with the release of their second CD Epistrophy (33Jazz120).

www.timrichards.ndo.co.uk

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