[nexttime] presents:

Mick Beck [tenor saxophone]
reflections on Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman…

Fri Jan 6th 2012 @ 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm

*** PLUS DEC 15th LIVE with Dave Birchall / Andrew Cheetham HERE ***

An active player on British and international scenes, a matchless master of the tenor saxophone whose ventures in sound has brought the bassoon to jazz and free music, Mick Beck is known everywhere in the country amongst top names in free improvisation.

Here at home, he is a key player on the scene, and he has organised events that put Sheffield on the map of England, bringing to us the very best of European improvisation and experimental music.

[nexttime] presents a very special event as mick revisits the jazz repertoire which influenced his career.

contact: [hervé] nexttimerv@hotmail.com

[nexttime] is a blend of nu jazz, electro-acoustic music and electronic beats, first friday of every month @ the
Showroom Bar
15 Paternoster Row,
Sheffield, S1 2BX

8-11:30PM
free entry

More details and map here

Noel Taylor clarinet.  Julie Kjaer  flute. Noura Sanatian violin.

Taylor, Sanatian, Beck, Kjaer at OTT, Sheffield Nov 2011

Noel Taylor has been establishing himself as a new voice on the London scene over the last few years. He presents this new trio of ostensibly classical instruments which will be given an original twist befitting Notes and Sounds alternative takes. Noura Sanatian on violin and Noel Taylor on clarinet are both members of the group Redstart, and the London Improvisers orchestra, joined this time by Danish flautist Julie Kjaer who is leader of the band Cardboard Whale. They will be joined for part of their performance by Mick Beck on bassoon, helping them to lurch from sumptuous harmonies and awful dissonances to dangerously madcap barrages of sound.

Halsey and Beck playing More Than Just Ball

Alan Halsey & Mick Beck will perform their arrangements of sound poems, some by Halsey himself, and some of those Hugo Ball wrote for the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. In all his work Halsey looks ‘to subvert our expectations

of poetry, to make us look at the moon from the dark side’ (Ian Seed). Beck’s uninhibited versatile tenor sax and his pioneering work with the under-used bassoon (his solo album Life Echoes on the Discus label gives

both instruments a run for their money) add a startling emotional dimension to these ‘verses without words’

Friday 18th November 2011

Over The Top, 78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield  Doors open 8pm for 8:30 Start     £5 waged, £3 unwaged
For further information, contact Mick Beck on 0114 258 4999, or emailmick.beck1@btinternet.com