Soweto Kinch (alt/vcl); Femi Temowo (gtr/vcl)); Karl Rasheed-Abel (bs/bs.gtr); Graham Godfrey (dms).
Ninety minutes unbroken seemed to fly past in ten! A truly amazing performance that somehow managed to incorporate Rap, Hip-Hop and goodness knows what else and still come out as Jazz!
Kinch is a superb alto-player - the history of the alto sax comes out in his playing from Hodges to Bird to Dolphy to Ornette - and then some!
Add the aforementioned Rap and Hip-Hop and you have a totally original take.
The music is inspired by many aspects of life. Be it yesterday's emancipation or today's financial meltdown Kinch somehow manages to do it with good humour no matter how controversial the subject matter.
Typical was the freestyle finale where he rapped on Freedom in response to words thrown at him by the audience. We got Finance, Robbers, Existentialism, Equity, Dollars, Osborne (George) and Money.
It was a hoot!
Apart from Soweto Kinch, Femi Temowo did the business on guitar complementing and matching the leader solowise. Bass kept it together and drummer God was Omnipotent!
A good opening day to Gateshead 2011.
Lance.
PS: Debbie Harry review to follow.
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