(Press release)
The Orpheus Project is proud to present tenor heavyweight Ellery Eskelin as their second featured artist. Joined by Chris Sharkey and Matt Bourne, the trio is comprised of three strong and individual creative voices that come together to create something greater than the considerable sum of its parts.
The group will tour between October 8th and October 14th, creating performances that are sure to be as unique as they are exciting.
For the past thirty years Ellery Eskelin has been at the forefront of the global creative improvised music scene. Based in New York City, he has traveled widely performing, recording and amassing a very personal and iconoclastic body of work. And yet Ellery Eskelin has always remained deeply committed to the traditions of jazz and American music. Eskelin embodies this seeming contradiction with ease. He does not see jazz as a style or idiom but as a process. Further, a process of creative development that has great relevancy to our time. In this pursuit Eskelin consistently delivers to the listening public unadulterated, passionate music with no excuses and no apologies.
Chris Sharkey is known across Europe as being at the cutting edge of creative music. He has been a member of numerous ground-breaking groups in the UK – including Trio VD, Acoustic Ladyland and Bilbao Syndrome. Internationally, he has collaborated with musicians in France (Christian Sebille), Norway (Nils Henrik Aarsheim), Lithuania (Liudas Mockūnas) and Spain (Asociación Musica Libre). Bourne first came to national attention as a winner of the Perrier Jazz Award in 2001, which was followed by an award for innovation at the BBC Radio Jazz Awards in 2002, and the International Jazz Festivals Organisation’s International Jazz Award in 2005. Renowned for his intensely personal and sometimes confrontational solo work, Bourne’s uncanny ability to balance delicacy and virtuosity, while establishing a close affinity with his audience, have become hallmarks of his concert performances.
Full information on performances, links to book tickets, videos and more can be found on the Orpheus Project website – www.orpheusjazz.org.
October 8th – Marsden Jazz Festival
October 10th – Con Cellar Bar, London
October 11th – Fizzle, Birmingham (Ellery Eskelin Solo)
October 12th – The Lescar, Sheffield
October 13th – Seven Arts, Leeds (joint promotion – Seven Jazz & Fusebox)
October 14th – The Globe, Newcastle (joint promotion – Jazz Coop & Jazz North East)
"Eskelin could get away with murder. That tone is all the alibi he'd need...incarnating the horn's romantic tradition while inking fresh initials on its tattooed heart.” (Jazziz).
“Eskelin continues to be the most inventive American tenor player in creative music..." (Down Beat) "Ellery Eskelin, a rugged tenor saxophonist with a romantic streak that runs parallel to his experimental leanings…" (The New Yorker 2013).
“Eskelin’s warm sound and flowing melodic invention may be the first things to catch a listener’s attention. He has one of the great tenor sounds...” (The New York City Jazz Record - December 2013) The Orpheus Project is a partnership between Apollo Jazz Network and NORVOLJazz which seeks to establish a touring network for jazz in the North of England. The project is generously supported by Arts Council England through the Grants for the Arts programme.
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