SMYTH / EDWARDS / SANDERS
Schedule
Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 07:45 pm
UTC+00:00Location
The Vortex Jazz Club | London, EN
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Paul G. Smyth, pianoJohn Edwards, bass
Mark Sanders, drums
“[Smyth/Edwards/Sanders] are the heart of life and creation as the lightning of Smyth’s hands up and down the Vortex piano’s keys breaks all musical chains. The piano is no longer a box: it is a world … The sheer audacity of it … An awesome threesome indeed with their roots far afield in Ireland, Belize and Hounslow, London, making music of an awakened universe … sonic heaven” – Chris Searle, The Morning Star
Almost three years to the day, one of Ireland’s improvising masters Paul G. Smyth returns with the incomparable pairing of John Edwards and Mark Sanders, marking their 10th anniversary as a trio.
Described by The New York City Jazz Record as “a revelation”, pianist Paul G. Smyth has released critically acclaimed albums with Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Chris Corsano, John Wiese and John Russell on his Weekertoft label. He has performed across Europe with Charles Gayle, Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Wadada Leo Smith and Okkyung Lee, large-scale instrumental psych-rockers The Jimmy Cake and synth trio Boys of Summer, leading The Free Jazz Collective to call him “one of the great contemporary pianists”.
London-born bassist John Edwards, active since the 1980s, is one of Europe’s most renowned players in creative free jazz, collaborating regularly with legends including Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Evan Parker and Roscoe Mitchell.
Drummer Mark Sanders brings a career spanning multiple genres to his free improvisation work, having performed with Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Dunmall, Derek Bailey and Shabaka Hutchings across festivals worldwide. He appears on over 170 releases.
Smyth/Edwards/Sanders is a reunion of old friends, continually pushing the boundaries of their music together into deeper levels of interplay and dizzying heights of poetry and imagination.
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Where is it happening?
The Vortex Jazz Club, 5 Gillett Street, London, N16 8, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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