Jon Lloyd Quartet
Thu 02 Feb
|Southville
Jon Lloyd - saxophone, John Law - piano, Henrik Jensen - bass, Alex Goodyear - drums
Time & Location
02 Feb 2023, 20:00 – 22:30
Southville, The Hen and Chicken, 210 North St, Southville, Bristol BS3 1JF, UK
About the event
Jon Lloyd - saxophone, John Law - piano, Henrik Jensen - bass, Alex Goodyear - drums
Saxophonist Jon Lloyd arrived on the UK free jazz scene in the early 1990s and rose to prominence with recordings on Leo records and HatHut, and with many UK and European concerts with his quartet comprising John Law, Paul Rogers and Mark Sanders. Highlights during this period included Berlin's FMP Festival, several Arts Council tours and the 1993 Contemporary Music Network tour with the Bill Frisell Band. Over the years Jon has embraced contemporary composition, abstract improv and jazz, but in the last decade has developed his music towards the European Jazz aesthetic, notably recording "Vanishing Points" in 2013 with Asaf Sirkis, Tom Farmer, John Law and Rob Palmer. This new 2023 quartet reunites him with superb pianist John Law and includes the young rhythm section of Alex Goodyear on drums and Henrik Jenson on…