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Late-Night Jazz Concert

Late-Night Jazz Concert

10pm, The Guildhall, Gloucester

Stroman Jonsson Int Project

Reporting from a very succesful concert at the Vortex, London on January 13 2010, arts producer Mathew Tucker writes:

"Scott Stroman is a musician with fingers in many pies. Tonight he was the vocalist in a band he co-leads with his long-term musical partner, saxophonist Cennet Jonsson. Joined by instrumentalists from Hungary, the US, Ireland and, er Highbury (Stroman), he treated the select audience at the Vortex to a collection of works (well I can't really call them songs) from his new album Project 2. This rather clinical title doesn't do justice to the warmth exuded by the assembled musicians, spearheaded by Jonsson's soprano sax and Zoltan Lantos' fiddle. Their breathtaking unity of sound was underpinned by Stroman's gentle scat singing which, whether intended or not, was a useful brake on anything too outlandish and impenetrable. The highlight of the evening was Stroman's composition Homeless whose desolate quality perfectly captured the cold and slushy view of Gillett Square as seen from the comfort of the Vortex."

A treat not to be missed on the day before Scott's new composition is premiered in the Cathedral - Jazz Psalms (event 72).

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