Tori Freestone/Alcyona Mick duo
Tori Freestone/Alcyona Mick duo
Thu 17 November 2022
Stage time / 9:00am
Celebrating the Jazz Clubs
Location
Jazzlive at the Crypt,St Giles Church
Camberwell Church St
SE5 8JB
Tori and Alycona use the duo format as the ideal setting to blend their unique and distinct voices for a more intimate exploration of their engaging and innovative material
TORI FREESTONE/ALCYONA MICK DUO
Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick have known each other for many years. Tori has been working with many of the most noted musicians on the UK and International Jazz Scene for many years induding the Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra alongside the likes of Stan Sulzmann, Mark Nightingale, Jason Yarde and Henry Lowther, the UK All Star Big Band alongside Hermeto Pascoal, the London Jazz Orchestra, the Ivo Neame Quintet alongside Jasper Hoiby and Jim Hart, 'Solstice' (a co led sextet with Brigitte Beraha and John Turville, the Andre Canniere Quintet alongside Mike Janisch and Ted Poor and her own trio with two releases on Whirlwind recordings. Her writing and playing has a range of influences from folk to straight ahead jazz and Brazilian music. She was shortlisted for the Parliamentary Jazz Award Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year 2017 and The Arts Foundation Award for Jazz Composition 2017.
After working together on the London jazz scene in various large ensembles including the London Jazz Orchestra and then travelling together to work on a project in the Canary Islands in 2014, they decided to fuse their unique writing styles and improvisational approaches to explore some new material and contemporary standards with a twist. Given their wealth of experience working with unusual instrumentation in a variety of formats, the duo is the ideal setting to blend their unique and distinct voices for a more intimate exploration of this engaging and innovative material. Performances have included St Ann's Church (Manchester Jazz Festival), the Lancaster Jazz Festival, The Vortex, museo del Grifo in Lanzarote (Spain), Symphony Hall in Birmingham and concerts in Germany recorded live on Radio Bremen.
"elegant engaging music played with magnificent panache" All about Jazz
TORI FREESTONE/ALCYONA MICK DUO
Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick have known each other for many years. Tori has been working with many of the most noted musicians on the UK and International Jazz Scene for many years induding the Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra alongside the likes of Stan Sulzmann, Mark Nightingale, Jason Yarde and Henry Lowther, the UK All Star Big Band alongside Hermeto Pascoal, the London Jazz Orchestra, the Ivo Neame Quintet alongside Jasper Hoiby and Jim Hart, 'Solstice' (a co led sextet with Brigitte Beraha and John Turville, the Andre Canniere Quintet alongside Mike Janisch and Ted Poor and her own trio with two releases on Whirlwind recordings. Her writing and playing has a range of influences from folk to straight ahead jazz and Brazilian music. She was shortlisted for the Parliamentary Jazz Award Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year 2017 and The Arts Foundation Award for Jazz Composition 2017.
After working together on the London jazz scene in various large ensembles including the London Jazz Orchestra and then travelling together to work on a project in the Canary Islands in 2014, they decided to fuse their unique writing styles and improvisational approaches to explore some new material and contemporary standards with a twist. Given their wealth of experience working with unusual instrumentation in a variety of formats, the duo is the ideal setting to blend their unique and distinct voices for a more intimate exploration of this engaging and innovative material. Performances have included St Ann's Church (Manchester Jazz Festival), the Lancaster Jazz Festival, The Vortex, museo del Grifo in Lanzarote (Spain), Symphony Hall in Birmingham and concerts in Germany recorded live on Radio Bremen.
"elegant engaging music played with magnificent panache" All about Jazz
