Empirical feat. Ivo Neame & David Preston
Empirical feat. Ivo Neame & David Preston at The Cockpit, London
Empirical feat. Ivo Neame & David Preston: Empirical, Ivo Neame, David Preston
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About the show
Join the multi award-winning UK jazz ensemble Empirical for a performance of their second release on Whirlwind Recordings, their forebodingly titled eighth album Like Lambs: To The Slaughter.
Empirical, Nathaniel Facey (alto sax), Tom Farmer (double bass) and Shaney Forbes (drums), have enlisted long-time collaborators Ivo Neame (piano) and David Preston (guitar) to lend their distinctive musical voices to the album.
Featuring - Empirical
Empirical are a group of young musicians of awe-inspiring talent and originality: Nathaniel Facey (alto saxophone), Shaney Forbes (drums), Tom Farmer (bass).
Former members of Gary Crosby's Tomorrow's Warriors, they released their debut album on Courtney Pine's record label, Destin-E, which was hailed Jazz Album Of The Year by Mojo and Jazzwise. 2010 also saw them pick up the coveted MOBO award for Best Jazz Act and the UK's Peter Whittingham Award. They are dedicated to maintaining the roots of traditional modern jazz but have a definite finger on the pulse of the contemporary world. Empirical recently played a live set for Jamie Cullum's BBC Radio 2 jazz programme.
Ivo Neame
Ivo Neame is fast establishing himself as one of the leading pianists and composers on the British scene. Combining melodic drive with his own elegant compositional style, Ivo Neame has developed a formidable, expansive piano sound and compositional voice. A busy sideman as well as solo artist, his album 'Caught In The Light Of Day', released in 2009, received rave reviews.