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 february 2010

free download/donation in memory of ebou secka

 2nd LOOP FESTIVAL @ The Vortex 17 – 21 Feb 2010 7.30pm

Vortex Jazz Club 11 Gillett Street, London N16 8JH 020 7254 4097

Tickets Wed, Thu & Fri £10, Fri-Sat £12 (3 day pass £25, 5 day pass £40)

Founded in 2005, the Loop Collective celebrates it’s fifth year with a 5-day festival at the Vortex packed with performances from all it’s members, collaborations, and guest bands from other top European collectives and Loop friends: F-ire, Yolk, LIMA, and Umlaut. The festival is part-funded by the Arts Council and PRS foundation and BBC Radio 3’s Jazz on 3 will be recording one of the evenings for broadcast. The Loop collective membership represents a generation of like-minded Jazz musicians who wanted to create a network of shared resources, a platform for their many artistic collaborations and foster the promotion of contemporary creative music.

Wed 17
8:00pm Sam Crockatt 4tet
9.00pm Loop Friends series: F-ire: Seb Rochford + Leafcutter John
10:00pm Alex Bonney’s Tribute to Ayler w/ special guests Mark Sanders & Paul Dunmall

Thu 18
8:00pm Tom Mix
9:00pm Dog Soup
10:00pm Phronesis w/Anton Eger

Fri 19
8:00pm Loop Friends series: Yolk: European TV brass trio
9:00pm Blink w/special guest Vincent Courtois
10:00pm Dave Manington’s Riff-Raff
11:00pm Golden Age of Steam

Sat 20 (recorded by BBC radio3)
8:00pm Ma
9:00pm Fringe Magnetic (album launch)
10:00pm Loop Friends series: Umlaut: Peeping Tom with Evan Parker
11:00pm Gemini

Sun 21
6:00pm Mark Hanslip/Javier Carmona and Rory Simmons/Alex Bonney (Loop Duo series) downstairs at the Vortex
8:00pm Loop Friends series: LIMA: Matt Bourne solo
9:00pm Outhouse
10:00pm Ivo Neame 4tet

http://www.loopcollective.org

new loop collective blog with gigs and other info

paul clarvis and liam noble's hugely popular recording 'starry starry night' is now available to buy