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Forthcoming Release:
FOGCD011 “Boom Boom Cat” Sunny Murray/John Edwards/Tony Bevan
Recorded live during Sunny Murray’s now legendary residency at London’s Vortex in 2009, “Boom Boom Cat” captures the drum master in full flight and playing at the top of his game.
Available in early February 2010.
Antoine Prum, Director of the recent documentary on Murray, Sunny's Time Now is on record as saying: "The European trio is certainly the best thing that's happened to him in the last few years, as that group has helped him recuperate a large part of the energy that characterized his earlier performances." In fact Murray was so energized that he finished the final ten minutes of the first set unaccompanied, wreathed with sweat, to the incredulity of Bevan who, after the tumultuous applause subsided, was moved to exclaim: "Before we played, Sunny was saying to me and John to wear him out!"
"Indefatigable, at the start of the second set, Murray chatted to the audience. There had been a question-and-answer session programmed between sets the previous evening, but this discourse proved more of a monologue, offering a glimpse of the drummer as a likely lad. Eventually Murray seated himself behind his kit for a laid back start, with Bevan's ecstatic tenor cries and Edwards'slow deliberate plucks making for a slow burning groove which promised to be at least the equal of the first set. Sadly, just as Bevan was harnessing up to unleash his bass sax once more, I had to leave for the last train home, with the marvelous music still echoing round Gillett Square as I departed. However, the array of mics festooned around the stage suggested that the gig was being recorded, so with luck I might yet get to hear how the second set turned out, and those unable to make any of this two-day run might be able to confirm that it was indeed Sunny's time once more."
Allabout Jazz
“Murray is the magic ingredient that makes this trio so magnificent. Anyone who can take to the stage with Bevan and Edwards on an equal footing deserves respect; Murray has a lot of additional weight to carry: it can’t be easy being a Jazz legend. But Murray’s current rep doesn’t rest on his contributions to Jazz history. The passion and feeling he invests in his drumming is palpable and energising; more than that this trio works wonderfully well together in that special way that only the most congruous partnerships do."
The Jazzman
August 31st and September 1st 2009, The Vortex, Dalston, London. 8.30
The Sunny Murray Trio (Sunny Murray, drums, Tony Bevan, Bass, Tenor and Soprano saxophones, John Edwards, Double Bass).
On August the 31st and September the 1st the legendary drummer Sunny Murray (Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Jackie Maclean, David Murray...) will be appearing with his european trio of bassist John Edwards and tenor & bass saxophonist Tony Bevan at "The Vortex" in Dalston, London. The trio, which featured in the recent documentary "Sunny's Time Now" has released two critically acclaimed records "Home Cooking in the UK" and "The Gearbox Explodes" (both Foghorn)and have not appeared in Britain since 2006, when the filming for "sunny's Time Now" (partly) took place.
"Sunny's Time Now" premiered at the I.C.A. in London in April, and has been shown across European capital cities. It features Cecil Taylor, Tony Oxley, William Parker, Robert Wyatt, Grachan Moncur, Sonny Simmons, Tony Bevan, Bobby Few, a.o, and is a monument to the life and work of an extraordinary man and his music, which links today back to Willie "The Lion" Smith, via John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler.
"The trio that Sunny is playing with is certainly the best thing that's happened to him in the last few years, as that group has helped him recuperate a large part of the energy that characterised his earlier performances". Antoine Prum, Director, "Sunny's Time Now".
There will be a Q&A session with Sunny at the first gig.
September 19th 2009, Café Oto, Hackney, London, 8.00.
Incus Pheonix Festival.
Tony Bevan (Soprano, Tenor and Bass Saxophones), Ashley Wales (Electronics, Soundscapes).
First Live performance of this new duo, currently preparing a new Foghorn release “New Town”.
Joe Morris, Tony Bevan, Dominic Lash and Tony Buck Quartet – on Tour
From Jazz North-East Website
Tony Bevan, a member legendary drummer Sunny Murray's European trio, has turned the lumbering bass sax into an amazingly agile source of improvised magic (his tenor sax is pretty hot as well) . For this gig he’s joined by Dominic Lash, whose recent exploits include touring with The Convergence Quartet and debuting a trio with English improvising pioneers John Butcher and John Russell. Boston-based Joe Morris is a brilliant but unflashy (and thus criminally under-valued) guitarist with a totally distinctive approach, built on fleet single-note lines and a great use of space. Australian drummer Tony Buck has a much higher profile through his membership of The Necks. and the ‘deep listening’ he displays at the heart of that cult trio makes him the ideal man to anchor this amazing band.
October 27th “The Cluny” Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
October 28th “The Vortex”, Dalston, London
October 29th “The Hare and Hounds” Birmingham
October 30th “The Cube” Bristol
October 31st “The Folly Bridge” Oxford
November 1st “The Rising Sun”, Reading.
Supported by Jazz Services
Monster Club Released
“Monster Club”. Incendiary new release featuring the brilliant young Noise drummer Chris Corsano (Bjork, Sonic Youth/Thurston Moore, Sunburned Hand of Man, Paul Flaherty) with Tony Bevan and rising Double Bass star Dom Lash (Steve Reid, Fourtet, Tony Conrad, Pete MacPhail). Brilliantly recorded live in Oxford by Chris Trent, “Monster Club” will surely come to be regarded as one of the most exciting releases of recent years.