Sunday 27th Nov.

10:30am - 1:00pm

Soweto Kinch with Resolution 88:

Jazz, Funk & Hip-hop Workshop

ARU Music Recital Room

 

Tickets:

£15 / £12

The workshop is intended both for professional musicians and beginners of all ages (grade 4+) who are interested in jazz, funk, hip-hop improvisation and composition. During the workshop Soweto Kinch will explain how to improvise confidently and how to avoid being constrained by convention.

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Soweto Kinch is a tour de force of the contemporary British Jazz and Hip Hop scenes, with a list of accolades and awards including a Mercury Prize nomination, two UMA Awards and two MOBO awards for Best Jazz Act.

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‘A real tour de force’   ***** The Guardian

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'It's a clever and entertaining juxtoposition of idioms that kicks pure jazz and authentic rap into a brave new world'

The Guardian

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'Mr Kinch demostrates what England has to teach [the USA] about narrative Hip Hop. Don't sleep on Mr Kinch'

The New York Times

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Resolution 88 is a hard-hitting, Fender Rhodes driven raw funk quintet led by Tom O'Grady (Suitcase Rhodes, Clavinet, Nord Stage 2, Solina, Moogs) playing original funk music in the vein of Herbie Hancock and more recent innovators such as Kaidi Tatham (Bugz In the Attic).

 

With critical acclaim, flourishing sales and a fast growing fan base Resolution 88 have toured in the UK supporting the Blackbyrds (Donald Byrd’s famous protégés), Medeski, Martin & Wood, Nels Cline and Snarky Puppy.

"Wow. Soulful music, played with passion and incredible skill. This harkens to the best funk-jazz of the sixties and seventies and takes it to a new level. Think Headhunters for the new millennium."
Bob Power (The Roots, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo...) New York 2013

"Resolution 88 ... this is an exciting young band from Cambridge who take their influence from the immensely important, barrier-breaking mid 70's funk jazzer Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters - they've come out of nowhere at the last minute! There's absolutely no-one around at all like these guys at the moment!"
Craig Charles (The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show)

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"This band @thejazzmeet is frickin insane!!! I gotta get them @jazzrefreshed !!!!"
Adam 'Rockers' Moses (Jazz re:freshed)

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