Keith Tippett Octet, Matthew Bourne (1)

An evening to celebrate a seminal and inspirational figure in the evolution of UK jazz since the 1960s.

Keith Tippett unveils a brand new duo with fellow pianist Matthew Bourne – himself one of the most provocatively talented artists of a later generation – alongside the Octet who plays on his most recent, acclaimed recording ‘The Nine Dreams of Patrick Gonogon’, in music that carries echoes of Irish folk themes, Ellington and Mingus, but which is entirely of Tippett’s own making, with a band of precociously talented young players as well as the assured presence of drummer Peter Fairclough – ‘simply breathtaking’ (Guardian)