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The Listening Room Online presents Branton Hackett Morton + Seth Bennet 23.10.2020 14.30 BST

The Listening Room Online presents Branton Hackett Morton + Seth Bennet 23.10.2020 14.30 BST Zoom capture edited in GIMP by PM

The Listening room presents: trio Branton | Hackett | Morton then solo set from seth Bennett on the double bass and a nice quartet to finish,

The (Free) event.

The event is a `live stream` or feed on YouTube on Friday 23.10.2020 at 14.30 BST at this web link /page.
At 14.30 the YouTube video link should display, the concert will procede shortly afterwards.

The house band: The trio

NICK BRANTON, reeds
MARTIN HACKETT, korg ms
PHIL MORTON, accidents and treatments (biography-cv)

The trio have meet on a weekly schedule via the web application zoom during the COVID-19 lockdown.
On this occasion the meeting is to be shared with public via YouTube Live and presented as a concert.
The trio often apply fixed time constraints or duration to what is called free improvised music that normally has no fixed length. So it is with this concert presentation.
The trio set will last 15 minutes.

The guest: Seth Bennett Double bass

SETH BENNETT, double bass solo set.

Seth Bennett is one of the U.K.pre-eminent improvising double bass players. Currently based in rural Perthshire, his work involves free improvisation and composition for improvisers. Recent works include En Bas Quartet, a low string quartet for improvisers, all lovers are the song, a suite of six pieces for string trio and voice, and contributions to several recorded works, including CD releases by improvising sextet Sloth Racket, the Julie Tippets/Martin Archer Ensemble, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, and the large ensemble Favourite Animals. In addition, he maintains a busy performance schedule in Britain and across Europe in Jazz, Free Improvisation, English Folk music, and Contemporary Classical settings.

`The most original double bassist working in Britain today` - Lancaster Jazz Festival

`One of the country`s most virtuosic and restlessly innovative musicians.` - Sheffield Telegraph

 

The quartet

SETH BENNETT, double bass
NICK BRANTON, reeds
MARTIN HACKETT, korg ms
PHIL MORTON, accidents and treatments (biography-cv)

Set duration: 10 minutes

The promoter: The Listening Room

Of peripheral interest is: The Listening Room: read more

An archive of the live youtube feed is displayed here:

The announcements start at 7 minutes
The performances start at 8 minutes

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