(Press release)
Trailblazing cellist Shirley Smart is recognized as
one of the UK’s most versatile and creative string players.
Her trio showcases the vast array of her musical influences, drawing on her unique background living in Jerusalem for 10 years and working with the overlapping worlds of jazz, Arabic, Turkish and North African music, and with artists such as Avishai Cohen, Omer Avital and Yasmin Levy. It features two of the UK’s leading lights in world-influenced jazz – John Crawford on piano, and Demi Garcia Sabat on percussion.
Smart has established herself firmly on
both the jazz and world music scenes since moving back to London, working with
artists including Neil Cowley, Mulatu Astatke, Robert Mitchell, Misha
Mullov-Abaddo, Maciek Pysz and Alice Zawadzki. She is also a founder member of
Issie Barratt’s Interchange Dectet, whose debut album ‘Donna’s Secret’ has just
been released, and has appeared at numerous festivals in the UK and abroad.
She is currently Head of Performance at
City University, and gives frequent workshops for organisations such as the
National Youth Jazz Collective, Jazzlines, and Trinity Laban Conservatoire.
“… some of the most
inventive use of the cello I’ve heard for some time.” Kind of Jazz
This concert is presented by Jazz North
East in association with Jazz.Coop at The Globe.
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