The Edge Festival
Thursday 13th – Sunday 23rd Nov. 08
Edge08 is a micro-festival – The Fringe within the thriving London International Jazz Festival. Edge08, is a hip, cross-generational alliance united around blistering, spiritually uplifting live sessions, film, photography, dance and spoken word. Over 10 days an outernational gathering of artists will perform and collaborate in various venues in the cultural quarter of Shoreditch. Enlightenment is imminent.
Edge08 is curated by Paul Bradshaw (Straight No Chaser) & Jason Jules (Kilimanjaro Magazine) & Orphy Robinson (Original Jazz Warrior & Vibes Master)
Edge Festival listings
PARAPHERNALIA: The Photography of Peter Williams – The Straight No Chaser Years
@ the E2 Gallery, Calvert Avenue. E2
Fri. 14th Nov – Sunday 23rd Nov.
A genuinely DEEP selection of B&W portraits, taken over two decades, that span Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, DJ Shadow, The Roots, David Byrne, Sizzla… nuff! Hosted by the community based E2 gallery – don’t sleep on this!
Futurizm
Saturday 15th November @ Hoxton Hall: 130 Hoxton Street London N1 6SH
FUTURIZM: Orphy Robinson and Soweto Kinch present a night of future now: A journey into new cutting edge music from up and coming young and exciting Groups.
CHANTELLE NANDI featuring the award winning Hip hop meets Jazz not Jazz group. ”DESCENDANTS OF A QUEST”,
“JAZZ ALIVE “ featuring A new high profile gathering of 25 exciting new Musicians and Vocalist led by Orphy Robinson and Soweto Kinch.
“LOADED LYRICS” Hoxton Halls very own Rappers & Poets Ensemble with live music.
”A.S.A.P.” A new young Jazz mix based at Camden Towns Roundhouse.
£7.00 on the door / under 18 – £2.00 inc. one drink)
UK Premiere of 4hands
Sunday 16th November @ RICH MIX
Edge08 presents the European Premier of ‘4 Hands’
Yasuhiko Shirai’s compelling and intimate documentary film, “4 Hands”, illuminates a magical musical encounter in February 2007, in Tokyo, between Japanese pianist Yosuke Yamashita and his Master, the legendary and incendiary Cecil Taylor.
Venue: Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Rd. E1 6LA.
Due to high ticket demand we urge you to book immediately.
£10.00 (inc. entry to Freestyle Live Session) Tel: 0207 613 7498 www.richmix.org.uk
Film Times: 6.00 and 9.00
EDGE 08 FREEDOM PRINCIPLE MUSIC SESSIONS.
2:00pm – 4.00: Award winning Bassist Gary Crosby kicks off proceedings on the music front with the “Tomorrows Warriors”. The fertile breeding ground that brought you musicians like Soweto Kinch, Abram Wilson Bring a young & energetic start to proceedings with their own session..
4:30pm – 11pm: FREESTYLE ON THE EDGE 08.
Original Jazz Warrior and vibes man Orphy Robinson gathers together a mind blowing gathering of London based jazz and improvising musicians to celebrate the the premier of the documentary film “4 Hands” in their own majestic and free spirited fashion. 25 Musicians including Louis Moholo Moholo, Tony Bevan, Steve Noble, Pat Thomas, John Coxon, Shabaka Hutchings, Brian Edwards, Claude Deppa, Corey Mwamba. Steve Beresford Sotoko Fukuda, Leon Michener, Visuals by SDNA. plus some very special Surprise guests. Entry to Freestyle: £5.00 (on the door) www.richmix.org.uk
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Edge08: A fringe to the London Jazz Festival 2008
Saturday/Sunday 16th Nov @ Charlie Wright’s International Jazz Bar
ITALUBA
Cuban master drummer, Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez, has collaborated with Kip Hanrahan, Dizzy Gillespie, Paquito D’Rivera, Steve Turre, Michel Camilo, Joanne Brakeen, Joaquin Kuhn and Carlos Santana amongst others. This is a brand new Italy meets Cuba collaboration. (10pm)
http://www.myspace.com/charliewrights) (£17.50)
Tuesday 18th Nov @ Cargo
Robert Glasper Trio + DJs Simbad /Kyri:
K Swiss sponsored night feat. the brilliant, dreadlocked, Blue Note signed Texan pianist – Jazz meets Dilla! Gwaan! www.cargo-london.com) (£12.00 adv)
Leimert Parks
Wednesday 19th Nov @ RICH MIX -
FILM Premiere : Leimert Park – The Story of a Village in South Central – A moving documentary by Jeanette Lindsay. In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, an extraordinary group of artists and musicians including Richard Fulton, Kamau Daaood, Horace Tapscott and Billy Higgins, amongst others, created an underground arts movement and transformed a community. Intimate and compelling, “Leimert Park” is a universal tale of the struggles and triumphs of artists everywhere and of the power and importance of art and music in our lives. (8pm)
Fee: £10.00 inc. THE FRESH MIX A Freestyle live music session with Djs & Musicians.. To include HKB FINN ,Richard Anthony Davis,John Edwards, Mark Saunders,Jessica Lauren,Jake Sax Ok_Ma. Otto Fischer.. Visuals by SDNA. plus some very special Surprise guests. Presented by Orphy Robinson www.richmix.org.uk
Book now!! on 0207 613 749. Limited ticket availability
Leimert Parks
Saturday 22nd Nov @ Charlie Wright’s International Jazz Bar:
Steve Williamson + Pat Thomas Quartet + Roy Campbell + Roger Turner An unmissable incendiary mix of Free spirits exploring Free Music. Expect one of the festival highlights from these sonically attuned Warriors. (9.30pm) £15.00 45 Pitfield St, London. http://www.myspace.com/charliewrights)
Sunday 23rd Nov @ Dingwalls, Camden Lock
Out of the manor!!!
Talking Loud & Saying Something
Gilles Peterson & Patrick Forge revisit the magical and radical musical moments that fuelled a global jazz dance movement – a movement that is celebrated in depth in Snowboy’s forthcoming book ‘From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz – The History Of The UK Jazz dance Scene’.
Edge08: A Fringe to the London Jazz Festival 2008