Thursday Nov 22nd

Cambridge Modern Jazz, Hidden Rooms

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Doors: 7:00

Times: 8:00-10:30pm

Tickets: £15/£12

Unreserved seating available

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"Inventive, Lyrical." Jazzwise Magazine

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"Spiritual, Spiralling, Joyful." UK Vibe

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"Fluent, Imaginative." ★★★★ The Jazz Mann

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"What makes the album so striking is Davies' refusal to abandon melody even as she lets go of defined changes. Her irrepressible tunefulness not only leads the improvisers in fruitful directions but also offers the listener an open door into the music." Downbeat Magazine

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Satori is a contemporary jazz trio from Perrier award winning saxophonist Josephine Davies, featuring drummer Paul Clarvis and bassist Oli Hayhurst. The deliberate omission of a chordal instrument leaves a more spacious texture for the three musicians to explore the basic compositional elements Davies offers. This is a new direction for her, and one that showcases her creativity and strongly melodic improvisational approach. Although the focus of this band is on group interaction, exploration, and freedom from traditional set structures, Satori is also an accessible and hugely dynamic jazz ensemble. Their debut album was released in 2017 on Whirlwind Recordings to wide acclaim.

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Another Festival first at CMJ tonight as they premiere their second album In The Corners Of Clouds. 

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Satori is a Buddhist word meaning a moment of illumination or clarity. It emphasizes the interplay between practice and enlightenment, which could be said to correspond to the craft and art of improvised music.

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