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Chris Biscoe Profiles Quartet

Touring in early 2012 with support from Jazz Services and the Performing Rights Society, the Chris Biscoe Profiles Quartet is playing four gigs around the country and will be joined on a further two concerts by Henry Lowther and Kate Williams to complete the Mingus Profiles Sextet.

The Sextet was created especially for the 2011 Southbank Meltdown Festival curated by Ray Davies, and plays arrangements of Mingus classics such as Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Fable of Faubus Pussy Cat Dues and Boogie Stop Shuffle as well as less familiar works like Duke’s Choice and The Man Who Never Sleeps. As you might guess from these titles and the band name we emphasise Mingus’s many portraits of friends, lovers, political enemies, fellow musicians and one potty-trained cat.

GIG LIST – dates and venues – see Diary for full details.

January 18th       Way Out West, Richmond upon Thames – Sextet
January 20th       Chichester Festival Theatre – Sextet
January 26th       Nottingham Jazz, Bonington Theatre – Quartet
January 27th       Sheffield Jazz, Millenium Hall – Quartet
February 2nd     606 Club, London – Quartet
March 12th         Hastings, East Sussex – Quartet