Dan Mar-Molinero returns to Southampton Jazz Club with his 17-piece jazz orchestra, crammed full of top jazz musicians from in and around Southampton.
The programme features music composed for and funded by the Aqueous Territory Research Network project; inspired by concepts and themes around the extremes of water and how communities live and respond to it, with a focus on estuarine communities including New Orleans, Exeter and Southampton.
Dan Mar-Molinero Jazz Orchestra LINEUP
Director: Dan Mar-Molinero
Saxes: Simon Allen / Alex Western-King / Toby Evans / Caitlin Jeffrey / Damian Cook
Trumpet: Neil Doherty / Dave Smith / Paul Jordanous / Jo Downs
Trombones: Joe Evans / Dave Desmond / Matt Rumble / Robb Tooley
Rhythm Section: Rob Johnston (Guitar) / Ben Oliver (Piano) / George Balmont (Bass) / James Ashdown (Drums)
Video of Entail is now online. I created this new work with Will May. The work pays tribute to Philip Hoare’s writing on whales and the ocean, and is comprised of text taken from Hoare’s Leviathan, or The Whale.
I’m playing piano alongside the amazing Adam Betts and Vicky Wright and some brilliant student performers in this project featuring the music of Southampton PhD student Jamie Howell.
My mate and colleague Dan Mar-Molinero’s bigband album ‘Taproot’ has just been released. I played keys on all 5 tracks on the album, which was recorded remotely during the pandemic lockdowns. Dan is a super talented saxophonist and composer. It was great to learn and play his excellent tunes and particularly loved ‘Our Place’, probably as I feature as soloist in the second half!
Some mega musicians feature on the album. Give it a listen!
Excited to be playing piano as part of the Dan Mar-Molinero Jazz Orchestra at Turner Sims on 19 March. Super interesting project with another colleague from the University of Southampton Tom Irvine. We’ll be playing charts from Dan’s new album, sometimes with a jazz robot! What’s not to love!
The amazing Duncan Honeybourne recorded some of his Contemporary Soundbite commissions in July and is released on various channels and on a great new CD by Prima Facie today. The recording of my ‘From the Sublime to the Ridiculous’ sounds absolutely fantastic.
COVID-19 lockdown has been a hectic and strange time for all of us. I’ve not been massively creative, with a lot of my gigs and activities being cancelled, and a busy time working at the University of Southampton.
However, the fantastic pianist Duncan Honeybourne (and my colleague at Southampton) approached me to see if I’d like to write a short piece for his Contemporary Piano Soundbites series. From the Sublime to the Ridiculous is what came out…
Excited that Duncan is recording a bunch of these pieces for a CD later this year.
My dear friend and co-swerverite Robin Grey has released his second album, ‘Strangers with Shoes‘, on which I appear on several tracks. Definitely worth downloading this one – for anyone interested I’m particularly pleased with my Rhodes playing on ‘Ninety Days’!!
Parental advisory on the lyrics to this one…
Congratulations to Robin for another great album release. This is my favourite track from the album (I’m not on it!), ‘Shakes and Shudders’…
