Naissance - O Come Emmanuel - Jon Lloyd saxophone and John Law piano - play jazz - immersive

Name: Naissance - O Come Emmanuel - Jon Lloyd saxophone and John Law piano - play jazz - immersive
Start: 2025-12-12T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-12T21:00:00+00:00
Location: St Just’s Church, St Just in Roseland

Schedule

Fri Dec 12 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

St Just’s Church, St Just in Roseland | Truro, EN

Naissance” is the new project from the duo of Britain’s leading jazz/classical musicians Jon Lloyd (saxophone) and John Law (piano). The music spans classical, jazz, ambient and subtle textural samples and will engage audiences from all tastes. Both are musicians and composers with more that 50 recordings to their names and performance credits demonstrating long associations with many of the leading players in the British contemporary music and jazz firmament– Tim Garland, Jason Rebello, Evan Parker, Barry Guy and the London Sinfonietta
Their most recent project which was performed live in Cornwall was the ambient work “Renaissance” – an improvised work using looping derived from sacred vocal texts with live visuals designed by Patrick Dunn (of Tangerine Dream fame) and which was performed in Truro Cathedral in 2023. This new project “Naissance” will also use the warm and vibrant ambience of visually stunning and reverberant church spaces but on a much more intimate level. This performance takes place in the tranquil, waterside Norman church of St Just in Roseland which is set in what was described by Sir John Betjeman as “ to many people the most beautiful churchyard on earth”
This performance of Naissance takes place appropriately just before Christmas – it will feature a new composition based on the wonderful ancient Advent Hymn “Veni, veni Emmanuel” (Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel) and audiences of all ages are invited to come and immerse themselves in music that is both contemplative and inspiring.
Naissance:
“Music of contemplation and renewal.” London Jazz News
“Thank you for creating this utterly moving coming together of beauty!” Audience member
Jon Lloyd:
“A saxophone delivery as persuasive as a speaking voice.” Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
“…creating music of often startling beauty.” Jazzwise Magazine
“The only music you want to hear.” London Jazz News
John Law:
“Combining the vocabularies of classical and jazz in a singular and seamless way, coalescing improvisational surprise and a deep elegiac musicality.” All About Jazz
“As well as being a formidable thematic improviser, whose phrasing constantly opens up new twists, Law writes beautiful romantic ballads" The Guardian
“One of the UK’s most imaginative and versatile jazz pianists.” International Piano Magazine