 Jerwood
Rising Star series International Collaboration at the Cheltenham
Jazz Festival 2006
"Dazzling" Observer
“This latest trio
project seems once again to have struck gold" Jazzwise
“Kept an awestruck
audience on tenterhooks” JazzUK
“Musical bliss”
Birmingham Post
This classic Saxophone - Bass - Drums
line-up is the perfect setting to see Julian Siegel
The trio arose from a major commission from
the Cheltenham International Jazz Festival in 2006 and based
on the success of this concert, toured the UK in early 2007.
The tour proved hugely popular with both audiences and press
and resulted in a live recording, which will be released on
Basho Records in the spring. To celebrate the release, the trio
will be touring again, for a limited period only, from 7th –
17th April 2008.
This meeting between Siegel and the ace downtown
New York rhythm section of Greg Cohen (double bass) and Joey
Baron (drums) creates real fireworks and provides a perfect
setting for fresh improvisations and great dialogue between
the musicians, who between them share an impressive CV.
Julian Siegel has played with Hermeto Pascoal,
Bill Frisell, Andrew Hill, Partisans, Django Bates and Steve
Lacy; Greg Cohen has played with Ornette Coleman’s Quartet,
John Zorn, Lee Konitz and has been featured on many of Tom Waits
classic Records; Joey Baron has played and recorded with Dizzy
Gillespie, Carmen McRae, John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Joe Lovano,
the Bill Frisell band, John Taylor and John Scofield to name
a few.
Julian Siegel has just received the award for
Best Instrumentalist in the 2007 BBC Jazz Awards.
BIOGRAPHIES
JULIAN SIEGEL Tenor and Soprano
saxophones and Bass Clarinet
"A world class saxophonist" Jazz UK
Julian Siegel has become one of the most in-demand
saxophonists on the European Jazz scene today, working with
many of the top figures in the music. He has just been awarded
the BBC Jazz Award 2007 for Best Instrumentalist. Besides his
trio, Julian’s current bands are Partisans, co-led for
the last 10 years with guitarist Phil Robson, and the Julian
Siegel Quartet featuring pianist Liam Noble. He played with
the Anglo-American Big Band of the legendary US pianist and
composer Andrew Hill. In 2004 he toured the UK with Brazilian
legend Hermeto Pascoal UK Big Band. He has performed with Django
Bates Delightful Precipice, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Norma
Winstone and Robert Mitchell, Gwilym Simcock, Byron Wallen's
Octet featuring Tony Kofi, Jason Yarde's 'Acoutastic Bombastic',
Mark Lockheart's Big Idea, Colin Towns, the NDR Big Band, Stan
Sulzmann's Big Band, Larry Bartley's Septet, and Hans Koller
New Memories Band, which recorded in December 2003 with soprano
saxophone legend Steve Lacy.
He regularly guests with Django Bates' Human Chain and Quiet
Nights + the Smith Quartet, most recently at the Venice Biennale
Festival 2003, Umea Festival in Sweden and the Sarajevo and
Belfast Jazz Festivals in 2004. He plays with Dexter Gordon's
long time pianist Kirk Lightsey's Quartet, Mike Gibbs Band,
the Jazz Jamaica Big Band, Julian Arguelles Octet, Ingrid Laubrock
Band and the Dave Green Trio.
At the Ruhr Trenniale festival 2006 he worked with NYC performance
artist/violinist Laurie Anderson and pianist/singer-songwriter
Steve Nieve. The band also featured Drummer Kenny Wollesen,
cellist Vincent Segal and bassist Greg Cohen.
He has also performed with Beverley Knight, Joe Lee Wilson,
Eddi Reader, Charlene Spiteri, Jacqueline Dankworth, Lizz Wright,
Juliet Roberts, Keziah Jones, Liane Carroll, Cleo Laine, Terri
Walker, Christine Tobin, Anita Wardell, Craig David and punk
rock legend Steve Ignorant (formerly of Crass).
Julian recently featured in a major UK tour with the Mike Gibbs
Big Band, to celebrate Mike’s 70th birthday, alongside
a world-class line-up of musicians from both sides of the Atlantic
including Bill Frisell, Steve Swallow and Adam Nussbaum.
Julian performs his own compositions with Partisans, co-led
and written for by guitarist Phil Robson, featuring Thaddeus
Kelly and Gene Calderazzo "the highlight of the 2003 Cheltenham
International Jazz Festival" (The Guardian). This gig featured
special guest, U.S. guitarist Wayne Krantz.
He is currently touring a set of new music with the Julian Siegel
Quartet, featuring Liam Noble, Jeremy Brown and Asaf Sirkis.
The quartet "makes the tried and trusted instrumentation
and tradition sing anew - that's the most difficult challenge
of all, and it's one that this band has risen to and more than
met." (Birmingham Post) CD of the Week Nov 2002 *****
“Siegel posits his sonic world with a coherence
and strength of character that reflects the lucidity of a man
who knows exactly who he is. No matter what he plays.”
**** Kevin Le Gendre, ECHOES Dec 2002
"Great imagination" Billy Hart
"Approaches the depth and sensitivity of
a Wayne Shorter or Stan Getz." Straight No Chaser
"The frequently lyrical and reflective saxophonist
Julian Siegel ripped into a series ofup-tempo harangues reminiscent
of Kenny Garrett with the later Miles Davis bands" John
Fordham, The Guardian
''Interfacing between the worlds of straightahead,
free improv and dance grooves, Siegel posits his sonic world
with a coherence and strength of character that reflects the
lucidity of a man who knows exactly who he is. No matter what
he plays." **** Kevin Le Gendre, ECHOES Dec 2002
"Siegel's wailing, swerving lines burst with
character" John Fordham, The Guardian
"spontaneous sparkle" John Fordham,
The Guardian
"the frequently lyrical and reflective
saxophonist Julian Siegel ripped into a series of uptempo harangues
reminiscent of Kenny Garrett with the later Miles Davis bands"
John Fordham, The Guardian
 GREG
COHEN Double Bass
Greg Cohen has been a lynchpin of the New York
Contemporary Jazz scene since the 60's. He currently plays in
Ornette Coleman's Quartet (as featured at Cheltenham Festival
2005). He is featured in many bands and on well known recordings
including Dave Douglas' 'Charms of the Night Sky', John Zorn's
'Masada' with Joey Baron and Dave Douglas, the Hal Wilmer production
'Weird Nightmare - Meditations on Mingus' alongside Henry Threadgill,
Elvis Costello, Geri Allen and Bill Frisell. He has also played
with The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Ken Peplowski
and he has been a mainstay on Tom Waits' albums since 1980's,
'Heartattack and Vine' 'Swordfish trombones', 'Rain Dogs' and
'Frank's Wild Years'. His rich bass sound and arranging skills
have been heard on the soundtrack to many great movies including
'The Big Lebowski', 'One from the Heart', and 'Million Dollar
Hotel.'
He has released two albums under his own name,
'Way Low' and 'Moment to Moment', both on the DIW Label.
In March 2006 he was Musical director in
a concert of the Alfred Hitchcock film music of Bernard Hermann,
Nightmare Romance featuring Marty Ehrlich and Bill Frisell at
the Barbican, London.
 JOEY
BARON Drums
Besides being a member of the Bill Frisell Band
for ten years until 1995 as featured on the seminal recordings
'Where in The World','Have a Little Faith' and 'Look Out for
Hope', Joey Baron has also recorded and performed with an impressive
list of musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, John
Scofield notably on 'Grace Under Pressure' with Charlie Haden,
Big Joe Turner, Joe Lovano's 'Trio Fascination', Carmen McRae
and Laurie Anderson. His current bands include KILLER JOEY with
Brad Shepik - guitar, Steve Cardenas - guitar, Tony Scherr -
bass, Joey has lead his own triosone with John Medeski and Marc
Ribot; and BARONDOWN which featured Ellery Eskelin (saxophone)
and Josh Roseman (trombone). Barondown recorded three albums
- Crackshot (Avant), RAIsed Pleasure Dot (New World) and Tongue
in Groove (JMT). He also co-lead the group "Miniature"
(with Tim Berne and Hank Roberts) and was a member of "Naked
City" (with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith and Wayne
Horvitz) and of Zorn's group Masada (Dave Douglas and Greg Cohen).
He also has recorded and toured with his band Down Home with
Arthur Blythe, Bill Frisell, and Ron Carter as featured on the
Records 'Down Home' and 'We'll soon find out'.
"Is there anything Joey Baron can't
do? Put a tricky chart in front of him, and he'll clarify complicated
passages like a great actor doing Shakespeare. Turn him loose
on simpler forms, and his witty phrasing and impossibly deep
groove will make you smile almost as widely as he does whenever
he's seated at the kit."
Modern Drummer (Feb. 2001)
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