BoNo (Steve Noble & Alex Bonney)

Doors 6:45 PM, Music 7:15 PM - 1 set of music About: BoNo - Bonney/Noble - Trumpet/Drums After making multiple unreleased recordings together, the duo performs at the Vortex Jazz Club for the first time. Steve Noble is London’s leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O’Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more. In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90). He was featured in the Bailey’s excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book ‘Improvisation; its nature and practise’. He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins). Alex Bonney is a trumpeter, electronic musician and recording/mix/mastering engineer and producer based in London. He performs internationally with several groups including Pando Pando, Leverton Fox, Scarla O’Horror, Brass Mask, light.box, Olie Brice’s Quintet and Octet, in duo with Will Glaser as well as many informal improv collaborations with leading improvisers on the UK scene. He is also in demand in the studio and works for a great variety of artists on their album releases for leading record labels including ECM.