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GIG-6 Reprise
Featured Anthony Kerr (Vibraphone)
with The Tim Dawes Trio
Took place on Wed 23rd November 2005
with an Audience of 84
Photos by Barry Blight©
Anthony Kerr
was born in Belfast and is regarded by many as the most enchanting, original and
exciting Vibraphone Player in the jazz idiom of today. He
also works with the BBC Big Band as a session musician and has been commissioned
to write for Television and Radio.
Taught percussion at Belfast
School of Music & Harrow School. Tutor with percussion section of Irish Youth
Orchestra. Jazz improvisation teaching at Queens University, Belfast,
Southampton University, Morley College, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and
Royal Academy of Music in London. He also teaches privately.. Having spent two years
studying and performing in New York in the 1980s, he then moved to London to
perform and record with many great musicians including George Shearing, Elvis
Costello, Georgie Fame, Claire Martin, Louis Stewart, Norma Winstone, Peter King
and Joe Lovano. He has either been voted, or been nominated ‘best
instrumentalist’ in the British Jazz Awards every year since 1994.
Anthony was the original endorser for
the Xylosynth and his wise advice to the manufacturer has proved invaluable -
his be-boptastic playing is an inspiration.
Voted Young Jazz Musician of the Year in 1995 Anthony studied with David
Friedman and has made a couple of well received albums.
Apart from session work Anthony's credits include
the Anthony Kerr Mallet Band, and the BBC Big Band
Listen to extracts of Anthony Kerr playing
some of his compositions for Vibraphone, Marimba and Xylosynth.
Sweet Summer - Gentle Vibes with
piano
Who sees the Dawn - Xylosynth,
Marimba and Vibes
A Stitch in Time - Live @ Ronnie
Scotts - Vibes, piano Bass & Drums
Sounds
of Anthony Kerr
Concert Programme - First set
In your own Sweet Way - Dave Brubeck
Darn That Dream - Eddie Delange & Jimmy Van Heusen
Soul Eyes - Mal Waldren who was Billie Holiday's accompanist- nice
bass solo from Tim
Bolivia - Cedar Walton - allowed an embellishing Drum solo from Graham Fox
Blues Improvisation - nice slow solo works throughout
Second Set
I Hear a Rhapsody - George Fragos, Jack Baker & Dick
Gasparre
Everything I Love - Cole Porter -
Uptempo swinging affair.
I Fall in Love Too Easily - Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne
- fine sensitive solo work by Phil Peskett
Cherokee - Ray Noble - fast tempo with great
solos throughout.
All of Me
- ended a very satisfying
evening of professionally delivered Jazz Standard Renditions.
 Mallets Aforethought: -
Superb, Scintillating Celestial Sonorous Sounds from an award winning and gentle Vibraphonist with a
dynamic technique with considerable command
of his instrument.. Steeped in the jazz tradition of Lionel Hampton,
Cal Tjader, Milt Jackson, Victor Feldman, Bobby Hutcherson, Chase Jordan,
and Gary Burton
Tim Dawes Comments on
our Venue and the
Player:-
One of the most glorious jazz venues in the country. Ideal
acoustics combined with an intimacy and informality make this
setting much sought after by musicians and audience alike. On
this occasion featuring the phenomenal Anthony Kerr, delicate
and authoritative Vibes player and a leading exponent of the
instrument this side of the Atlantic.
The
Tim Dawes Trio
  
Tim Dawes
- Bass
Phil Peskett - Piano Graham Fox -
Drums
Phil
Peskett - Phil
is one of the hottest young names on the London jazz scene. He has played with
Jim Mullen and at Ronnie Scott’s club in London many times with
Trudy Kerr, with whom he has recorded two albums. He has also performed with
Stan Sulzman and Steve Waterman. A tutor on the degree course at
the Trinity College of Music, he is also a respected composer and has his own
piano trio which perform at the 606 Club regularly. Studied at Leeds
College of Music and the Guildhall
Graham Fox studied music with David Wickens, Dave Hassel and Kevin Nutty and was
awarded a First Class BMus degree. The majority of Graham's work comes as
a jazz drummer playing in London and in Jazz clubs around the UK. Graham's more
commercial ventures in music have often been working alongside Pat Hughes and
Jon Duff on their own drum and bass project 'Three Kingz'.
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