[NewMusic] Simon Rose is visiting from the UK

[Robair, Gino]

Hey y'all,
English saxophonist Simon Rose will be staying in the Bay Area throughout
February and March. Simon's very interested in setting up some sessions and
gigs with us locals, so I'm putting the general word out to the list. He
comes highly recommended by trombonist Gail Brand, and he's been a part of
the improv scene for some time -- played with a number of interesting folks.
He should be fun to get to know. I've pasted his CV below.

If anyone here wants to get in touch with Simon, book a gig or two with him,
or just say hello, let me know directly and I'll send you his contact info
(let me know at grobair at emusician.com -- don't just hit reply and powder
the list's sausage).

Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Cheers,
ginorobair


Simon Rose is best known in the field of free improvisation as leader of the
trio Œbadland¹ together with Simon Fell on double bass and Steve Noble on
drums. They have toured extensively had three albums released and several
radio sessions including a session for BBC Jazz on 3 (with a fourth
recording currently in preparation).
During the mid 90¹s he established Club Orange with tenor saxophonist John
Grieve. .A fortnightly, then weekly club for free jazz and improvised music
in north London. It quickly became a venue where just about everyone from
the improvised music scene in this country as well as some from Europe and
from north America could be seen.
Simon has performed, with for example: Adam Bohman, Matt Hutchinson, Mark
Sanders, Oren Marshal, Dave Tucker, Phil Alexander and many others. Current
projects include Œbadland¹, solo, and recent performances have been trios
with Roger Turner and John Edwards and a second with Dominic Lash and Paul
May.
Simon has performed solo over the course of the last five years. Influences
are broad and as well as European and American ideas relating to free
improvisation (from those such as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Peter
Brotzmann, Han Bennink) he is also interested in musical ideas on
particularly wind and especially reed instruments as used historically
throughout the world and particularly in Asia.
As well as a saxophonist Simon is a very experienced teacher and has taught
music and drama in different settings both full and part time. Much of his
teaching work has been with young people who have special educational needs.
He is currently doing an MA (Professional Practice) which is concerned with
performance and education.
Simon lives in north London with partner Julie Myers video artist and their
daughter Lydia.
  
 
emanemdisc.com
brucesfingers.com
itunes/store/jazz/badland
 
Discography
 
Badland                          badland 1995
Axis of Cavity                badland 2002
Society of the Spectacle  badland 2005

Procession                     solo alto 2006