8.30 - 11.00pm
£8 on the door
Son
of the late Jimmy Skidmore, also a tenor saxophonist, Alan has toured
and recorded with Elvin Jones, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe
Henderson, Dexter Gordon, Mike Gibbs and Mike Westbrook, Chris
McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, John Dankworth and Tubby Hayes Big
Bands, the widely influential SOS group with Mike Osborne and John
Surman as well as a continuing association with Georgie Fame’s Blue
Flames. “Skidmore - one of the most ferociously virtuosic saxophonists
to have emerged out of the British sax generation that worked up its
momentum around 1970 - is no mere mirror of Coltrane’s glory. When he
attacks the master’s long, twisting odysseys into melodic and harmonic
density, he plays as if the effort is fearsome. To watch his chest
pumping after a five-minute double-time avalanche of improvisation, you
almost wish he would sit down and recover with a bit of Coltrane-like
yoga breathing” - John Fordham, Guardian.
8.30 - 11.00pm
