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Sons Of Kemet at Bimhuis

Courtesy of Onno Beukenhorst | Posted on November 28, 2016

Where

Bimhuis
Piet Heinkade 3
Amsterdam
Map
+31 20 788 2188

When

Thu, January 19, 2017
20:30

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Musicians

Sons of Kemet
band / ensemble / orchestra

About

Irresistible, danceable music by the frontrunners of new British jazz, the four-piece formation Sons of Kemet. ‘A wall of head-spinning sounds’ (JazzWise).

Everything that makes contemporary UK jazz so exciting is summed up in the irresistible, danceable music of Sons Of Kemet. Band leader, saxophonist and clarinet player Shabaka Hutchings, known as a member of The Heliocentrics, employs a wealth of styles for his colorful compositions. Aside from tuba player Theon Cross the group contains no less than two drummers: Seb Rochford (Polar Bear, Brian Eno) en Tom Skinner (Mulatu Astatke)....

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