Saturday 01 October 2022
JOSH KEMP’S COLTRANE PROJECT: A LOVE SUPREME
This performance is part of a major UK tour exploring the lyrical and spiritual music of John Coltrane, including his masterpiece - the Love Supreme suite. The show is accompanied with video projections to provide a multimedia experience and allow audience to connect with deeply with the music on many levels.
Josh Kemp, is a musician with a unique approach, a rich, melodic and lyrical sound whatever the context. A saxophonist deeply rooted in the tradition, Josh cut his teeth playing jazz standards and the blues is always a central reference in his playing. A unique sound, combining both contemporary inflections and deeply swinging playing has made him a regular at jazz clubs and festivals around the UK, from Ronnie Scott’s, to St Ives and Newcastle. As band leader and composer, Josh leads a variety of projects across many styles, united by a common communicative and melodic approach.
Josh is a member of the e17 Jazz collective based in Walthamstow, London. After studying philosophy at Oxford, Josh trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire, winning prizes and scholarships for his playing and studies. Since then he has released 5 albums and completed 4 Arts Council funded tours, including collaborations with Pianist Tim Lapthorn and Organist Ross Stanley. Current projects include a standards quartet with Nigel Price and Andy Clynedert, and work with singers such as Liz Fletcher and Shireen Francis as part of his Sunday night sessions in Walthamstow.
A Love Supreme is Coltrane's masterpiece, a work of deep spiritual power, representing a struggle for purity, an expression of gratitude, and an acknowledgement that the musician's talent comes from a higher source.
A suite with four parts: "Acknowledgement", "Resolution", "Pursuance", and "Psalm", the music ranges from hard bop to modal and free jazz in an epic aural poem to man's place in God's plan. The album's hymn-like quality transcends the normal limits of jazz genre, to allow for an intensely personal and moving communication with the audience.
Rolling Stone called it a "legendary album-long hymn of praise" and stated, "the indelible four-note theme of the first movement, 'Acknowledgement,' is the humble foundation of the suite. But Coltrane's majestic, often violent blowing (famously described as 'sheets of sound') is never self-aggrandizing. Aloft with his classic quartet...Coltrane soars with nothing but gratitude and joy. You can't help but go with him."
Josh Kemp - tenor sax/bass clarinet
Alex Hutton - piano
Oli Hayhurst - double bass
Dave Storey - drums
“A fierce talent” Jazzwise Magazine
“A subtle, highly nuanced, and original sound ” Time Out
www.joshkemp.com/the-coltrane-project
Ten koncert jest częścią dużej trasy koncertowej po Wielkiej Brytanii, zgłębiającej liryczną i duchową muzykę Johna Coltrane'a, w tym jego arcydzieło - suitę Love Supreme. Występom towarzyszą projekcje wideo, które zapewniają doświadczenie multimedialne i pozwalają widzom na głębokie połączenie się z muzyką na wielu poziomach.
A Love Supreme to arcydzieło Coltrane'a, dzieło o głębokiej duchowej mocy, reprezentujące walkę o czystość, wyraz wdzięczności i potwierdzenie, że talent muzyka pochodzi z wyższego źródła.
Josh Kemp to muzyk o wyjątkowym podejściu, bogatym, melodycznym i lirycznym brzmieniu, saksofonista głęboko zakorzeniony w tradycji. Unikalne brzmienie, łączące współczesną fleksję i głęboko swingującą grę, sprawiło, że stał się stałym gościem najlepszych klubów jazzowych i festiwali w Wielkiej Brytanii i nie tylko.
Josh Kemp – saksofon tenorowy/klarnet basowy; Alex Hutton – fortepiano; Dave Mannington – kontrabas; Dave Storey - perkusja
„Subtelne, wysoce zniuansowane i oryginalne brzmienie” Time Out
