Member Since: 01/06/2007
Band Website: Photos © Caroline Stone, Dickon Tolson, Lea Guzzo
Band Members: The Current Line-Up is: **************************JONATHAN COHEN (PIANO, KEYBOARDS, FLUTE, VOCALS) has worked as a composer/musician for numerous jazz and world music ensembles (and leads 'Time Loves Changes' the main vehicle for his original compositions, as well as 'PLAZA JAZZ PEOPLE' (Trios & Quartets from the pick of London's Jazz & World Music Scene Live Open Air Friday Evening Jazz Concerts at the newly redeveloped Maida Hill Market W9) the piano/vocal trio 'Bright Moments' & the piano/cello/doublebass chamber trio 'Plate Tectoniques'), for theatre companies, and recorded musical settings of poetry and for the visual arts. He has recent commissions from The Little Venice Music and Literary Festival, and the Royal Opera House, (he wrote the libretto for an Aria for “A NITRO at the Operaâ€). He has performed music with musicians and singers in India, Cuba, USA and Kazakhstan, as well as working on community projects both in the UK and abroad. He has pioneered Music Therapy services in the NHS, Education, Social Services and in the charitable sector. He wrote the play “The Compartment†produced and broadcast on BBC1 Television. **************************British Jazz Awards winner ALEC DANKWORTH (DOUBLE BASS) has worked with artists as diverse as Stephane Grappelli, Abdullah Ibrahim and Van Morrison. After studying at Berklee College of Music, Alec became a member of various groups, notably Clark Tracey, Julian Joseph and Nigel Kennedy. During a period of residency in New York he played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and joined the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Alec has since rejoined his parents' group (John Dankworth and Cleo Laine) and leads the Alec Dankworth Trio. His recent recordings have been with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. **************************PAUL CLARVIS (DRUMS, WORLD PERCUSSION, TABLAS, DHARBOUKAH) achieved notoriety at the 1995 BBC Last Night of the Proms as the drum soloist in Birtwistle’s ‘Panic’, and has played with musicians as diverse as Leonard Bernstein and John Dankworth. He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, continues to study traditional drumming from around the world and was recently chairman of the judges for BBC Young Musician of the Year. He has recorded with Paul McCartney, Elton John, Richard Thompson, John Adams, Andy Sheppard, Elvis Costello, Mark Anthony Turnage, Michel Legrand, Gordon Beck, Michael Nyman, John Harle and Bryan Ferry. Paul is a professor at The Royal Academy of Music and, with Sonia Slany, runs Village Life Records. **************************SHANTI PAUL JAYASINHA (TRUMPET, FLUGELHORN) leads his own group Shanti Jazz World, as well as playing in the Alex Wilson band, Monica Vasconcelos’s ‘Nois’, and the ‘Zappatistas’. Whilst studying at the Guildhall he was featured soloist with Kenny Wheeler on the CD 'Walk Softly'. Since then he has played with many leading bands including Snowboy and the Latin Section, Roberto Pla, Stewart Curtis Klezmer Groove (CD 'Too Loud for Dinner'), Mike Westbrook Orchestra, London Jazz Orchestra, District 6, Tom Bancroft Orchestra, Grand Union Orchestra and Brian Priestley's Jazztet. He has recorded with Lindsay Cooper's Sahara Dust, the Brand New Heavies, Nina Moreta, Louis Phillips, Jaguar and on the soundtrack of Derek Jarman's 'The Garden'. **************************RICHARD BOLTON (GUITARS, CELLO) combines the rare qualities of mastery of both guitar and cello, as band-leader and collaborator. As a blues, world-music and jazz guitarist Richard performs with artists such as Rolf Harris, left-field bluesman Billy Jenkins, Willard White (in his Paul Robeson tribute concerts), and film-composer Zbigniew Preissner. Richard played cello in Mike Westbrook’s jazz-opera ‘Quichotte’, in Huw Warren’s Barrel Organ Band and on June Tabor’s CDs ‘A Quiet Eye’ and ‘Rosa Mundi’, as well as on Helen Roche’s 2004 CD of Irish love songs, ‘Shake The Blossom Early’. **************************ROBERT TOWNSEND (SOP/ALTO/TENOR SAXOPHONES, FLUTE, CLARINET) has played throughout the world with a wide range of musicians including a tour of South America with guitarist Steve Hackett and several European jazz festivals with Django Bates' Delightful Precipice. He can be heard live and on CD with regular bands 'The Hungry Ants' and Mark Lockheart's 'Scratch Band'. He has recorded for film, TV and radio as well as performing and recording for contemporary dance groups such as Phoenix Dance Co and Siobhan Davies Dance Co. He is a lecturer in jazz at Middlesex University. He comes to Little Gidding straight from a tour with Herbie Hancock collaborator, trumpeter Eddie Henderson.
Influences: Each other, Django Bates, Mike & Kate Westbrook, Roland Perrin, John Law, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Joni Mitchell, Robert Newman, Stephen Poliakoff, JS Bach, Maurice Ravel, Jazz on BBC Radio 3
Sounds Like: "....a sort of prayerful jazz
equivalent of Fauré"........ ".......no doubting
the zest and good spirits of this
sizzling and unusual concert" ...... "compelling.....mesmerising" Roderic Dunnett, The Church Times June 07STUDIO CD 'Little Gidding - A Place In and Out of Time' by the TIME LOVES CHANGES 6tet featuring Alec Dankworth & Paul Clarvis, available 18th July 2008, contact [email protected] for copies!
Record Label: TLC001 STUDIO CD TIME LOVES CHANGES 6tet LGaPIaOoT
Type of Label: Indie