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(Moss Freed - 'Let Spin')

Moss Freed formed The Moss Project whilst studying composition and performance at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, to provide a platform for progressive and exciting new music. On returning to his hometown of Manchester, he established a group there under the same name who quickly established a monthly residency at Matt & Phred's Jazz Club. Their debut album, Vision, was released in 2009 on Apsara. The album won much critical praise being described as "a real achievement" by Bill Bruford and as "a fascinating and hypnotically satisfying album which demands repeated plays" by All About Jazz. The band has performed regularly in the UK and Europe over the past three years including multiple appearances at the London Jazz Festival and Manchester International Jazz Festival and have completed several successful tours in the UK (Jazz Services supported) and Germany. They have also achieved radio play on Jazz FM, BBC Manchester and ALL FM. The quartet launch their second album in June, with a national tour featuring special guest Shabaka Hutchings on bass clarinet and saxophone. www.mossfreed.com Moss Freed was born in Manchester and took up the guitar aged eleven. He graduated with a First Class Honours degree in music from Edinburgh University in 2004 and was awarded scholarships from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Bucher/Fraser Trust and the Berklee World Scholarship Tour to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he attained a GPA of 4.0 and a place on the Dean's List. Moss has performed as a guitarist and had classical works performed around the world with radio play including Jazz FM and BBC6 Music. Moss is an active music educator, lecturing in harmony and composition at Salford University, examining for the Rockschool exam board and teaching guitar. Ruth Goller, originally from Bressanone, Italy, has been playing bass guitar and double bass in the UK for 10 years. After studying at Middlesex University, she is now based in London performing regularly with leading UK bands - Acoustic Ladyland, Oriole and Pat Walden's (Babyshambles) Big Dave. She also plays with world-renowned French pianist and composer Bojan Z with whom she has recorded an album. She has performed throughout Europe, North Africa and South America alongside most leading venues in the UK and runs her own band, Big Cat (featuring Kit Downes, Seb Rochford and James Allsopp). Alice Zawadzki is a jazz vocalist, violinist and composer and recent graduate of the MA in Jazz Singing and Composition programme at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2004, she began violin studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she won the Hilda Collens Prize. Alice has performed around the world with highlights including Ronnie Scott's, the Taipei International Jazz Festival and the Royal Variety Show. She recently recorded as featured vocal soloist at Abbey Road for forthcoming Disney film, Big Cats and runs her own band. Her mentors include Jacqui Dankworth and Norma Winstone and she holds teaching posts with Salford University and Aim Higher (RNCM). Alice was part of the Scottish Arts Council's 2008 Emerging Artists Residency and is a recipient of the Musicians Benevolent Fund Postgraduate Performance Award. Marek Dorcik grew up in Zilina, Slovakia and has been based in Manchester since 2006. Marek began playing drums at the age of 13 and enrolled at the Zilina Conservatory one year later. Whilst studying, he very quickly established himself on the Slovakian jazz circuit and was able to play alongside many of the country's top jazz artists. After graduation he moved to the UK where he is in high demand, working regularly with musicians such as Don Weller, Joel Purnell, Mike Walker, Alan Barnes, Dean Masser, Iain Dixon, Andy Schofield, Enrico Tomasso, Zoltan Dekany, Tommaso Starace, Les Chisnal, Jamil Sheriff and Stuart McCallum.

 

Thursday, June 14, 2012

8.30 pm

£8

020 7254 4097