TIM WHITEHEAD
tenor sax
GIOVANNI MIRABASSI
piano
7:30 p.m. Friday 1 November
Master saxophonist Tim Whitehead first toured with the award-winning Italian pianist Giovanni Mirabassi in 2005, and the following year they released their acclaimed album “Lucky Boys”. Through this long and fruitful association they have developed a special musical rapport, so expect an evening of exciting and poetic musical dialogue.
"Those of us who have caught him live ... have been left in blinking disbelief. It's not just his mastery of the tenor saxophone, phenominal though it is, but the absolute conviction of his playing that is so impressive." Dave Gelly (The Observer/BBC)
"Whitehead has a highly personal, always gorgeous sound on tenor and an infinite vocabulary - in a country of fine saxophonists he is one of the finest." Peter Bacon, Birmingham Post
"Mirabassi is in a state of grace when launching himself into pieces so thoroughly internalized that he can convey their original melodic and harmonic essence through just a few masterful strokes of sound, but weaving into it an emotional world animated with colours, sensations, nuances completely free and instinctive, deeply his own." Daniela Floris
"Those of us who have caught him live ... have been left in blinking disbelief. It's not just his mastery of the tenor saxophone, phenominal though it is, but the absolute conviction of his playing that is so impressive." Dave Gelly (The Observer/BBC)
"Whitehead has a highly personal, always gorgeous sound on tenor and an infinite vocabulary - in a country of fine saxophonists he is one of the finest." Peter Bacon, Birmingham Post
"Mirabassi is in a state of grace when launching himself into pieces so thoroughly internalized that he can convey their original melodic and harmonic essence through just a few masterful strokes of sound, but weaving into it an emotional world animated with colours, sensations, nuances completely free and instinctive, deeply his own." Daniela Floris
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