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| Friday January 22, 2010 7:30 pm Tickets: £ 16.00 (full price), £12.00 (members/concessions) Box office: 01223 511511  | Hidden Rooms, 7a Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BA |
| Since 1996 Partisans has been thrilling audiences with its energetic performances of tightly knit themes and groove-based sound, bridging the gap between New York swing, European improv and UK jam band. Partisans are a real band where the combination of each member's influences feeds a genuine creative spark generating huge excitement and energy. In summer '09 Partisans released 'By Proxy', their 4th album and a testament to their maturity and continuing inventiveness as composers and musicians. A great set of original tunes is caught live and at full throttle in the studio, beautifully engineered by Philip Bagenal at London's Eastcote Studios. Partisans cook up a trademark shot of gritty be-bop and hard bop, early electric Miles, ballads with sustained delicacy, rock riffs mixed with P-Funk grooves and with fresh departures into electronica notably on Thad Kelly's distinctive remix of Duke Ellington's 'Prelude to a Kiss'. The richly lyrical and strongly melodic compositions written by Robson and Siegel provide the framework and starting point, underpinned by the rock solid, freewheeling and supercharged rhythm section of Kelly and Calderazzo. “Partisans’ long expected masterpiece, ‘By Proxy’ is one of the most exciting albums to be released on either side of the Atlantic in 2009” Allaboutjazz, June 09 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33153 “punchy as hell…Thoroughly original, thoroughly of its time and … with all the time changes and timbral excitement, it has some real beauty to it too.” The Jazz Breakfast http://thejazzbreakfast.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/disc-of-the-day-04-07-09/ "By Proxy has all the power and personality needed to keep you coming back, the playing is superb… This is totally a group sound and identity… Words and phrases such as 'hard edged' and 'high energy' are often bandied around but here they apply, and the sheer power and joyous swing that the rhythm section sustain throughout these nine tracks give the record much of its fire and edge" Jazzwise June 2009 | |
| Artists: Phil Robson guitar/Julian Siegel reeds/Thaddeus Kelly bass/Gene Calderazzo drums | |
| http://www.partisans.org.uk |
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