Jazz Lates: Ben Marc
Sat 26th November 8pm
Ninety One Living Room
General Admission: £12.50 in advance / £15 on the door
Concession (students/-26 years old): £10.50 in advance / £12 on the door
About Jazz Lates
Jazz Lates is a series of intimate Jazz events that take place in our wonderful living room. On November 26th it is with great pleasure that we welcome producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Ben Marc to the living room stage.
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About the artist
It’s a rare talent that can link Radiohead’s Johnny Greenwood, Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, Afrofuturists Sun Ra Arkestra and grime legend Dizzee Rascal, but Ben Marc has long blurred musical worlds and criss-crossed boundaries. On double and bass guitar, he flits between jazz, classical and electronic music; whether playing on Greenwood’s award-winning score for the film The Master or touring with Astatke for over 10 years. He has also worked with the likes of Matthew Herbert, Charles Mingus, China Moses and Soweto Kinch – and even joining Tina Turner once onstage.
But as a producer and multi-instrumentalist at the leading edge of the UK jazz scene, Ben Marc is now stepping into the spotlight with his debut solo album, Glass Effect. Its title speaks to the limited perception of black musicians as being only of one genre – and to shattering expectations. “There’s a glass ceiling in most of the areas I’ve been working in: making it in classical music; the lack of Black producers at the top in electronic music,” says Marc. “There’s so many different sides to being a Black musician in London. Evan Parker is a massive influence for me one minute and the next it’s Common, and then Mount Kimbie.”
In his new music, Ben Marc has unified his influences into a sublime whole. Now signed to LA’s Innovative Leisure, he’s found a home alongside similarly future-thinking artists like Badbadnotgood, Nosaj Thing, Rarelyalways and Jimmy Edgar. First up is Breathe Suite, a lustrous EP of sweeping strings, rippling piano and meditative vocals: two suites that show off Marc’s gift for composing and arranging, bookended by two stirring improvisations.
Marc will be joined on the night by an exceptional host of musicians:
– Bobby Quigley on guitar
– Diân Gasper on keys
– Peter Adam Hill on drums
– Bret MC on vocals
– Miryam Solomon on vocals
This is a very special set not to be missed!
Doors 8pm. Live music 9:30pm.
Event Details
- Live Performance 9:30 pm
- DJ set until 01:30 am
- GET TICKETS HERE
How to reach us
Nearest Station:
Shoreditch High Street overground
Tube: Aldgate East & Liverpool Street
Bus: 67, 8, 242, 205, 35, 149, 26.
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