Author: pierre

Mitchener And Yarde Break Blues Boundaries As Black Avant-Garde Comes To Cafe OTO

Kevin Le Gendre

“This gig is a potent, provocative event that underlines the blues as a foundation for progressive black culture”

Vocal Classics of the Black Avant-Garde, Café Oto, London — a taste of the age of experimentalism

The band captured the genre-bending energy of the 1960s and 70s

Mike Hobart

“The band captured the genre-bending energy of those times without imitation and added emotional force to the songs presented. (…) Mitchener was a syllable-stretching, sound-crunching force of nature throughout.”

The week in classical: LCMF review

Fiona Maddocks

“Elaine Mitchener’s b r e a d t h b r e a t h (2018, world premiere LCMF commission) had an improvisatory mystery, arriving and departing slowly and delicately.”

7 January 2019

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Cafe Oto - London, 19:30 Vocal Classics of the Black Avant Garde: Jason Yarde / Elaine Mitchener / Mark Sanders / Neil Charles / Dante Micheaux / Byron Wallen

15 December 2018

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ambika P3 - London, 19:00 New commission Part of London Contemporary Music Festival[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][edgtf_button type="solid" size="" text="More info and tickets on LCMF website" target="_blank" icon_pack="" font_weight="" link="https://lcmf.co.uk/15-Dec-I-contain-multitudes"][/vc_column][/vc_row]

2 December 2018

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bimhuis, Amsterdam - The Netherlands, 20:30 Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener Quartet[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][edgtf_button type="solid" size="" text="More info on Bimhuis website" target="_blank" icon_pack="" font_weight="" link="https://www.bimhuis.nl/en/calendar/alexander-hawkins-quartet-2/"][/vc_column][/vc_row]

16 November 2018

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Fossé des Treize, Strasbourg - France, 20:30 Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener Quartet Part of Festival Jazzdor[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][edgtf_button type="solid" size="" text="More info on Festival jazzdor website" target="_blank" icon_pack="" font_weight="" link="http://www.jazzdor.com/evenement/jean-marc-foltz-quartet-alexander-hawkins-elaine-mitchener-quartet/"][/vc_column][/vc_row]