Gilad Atzmon and Orient House Ensemble

Orient House Ensemble - Gilad Atzmon is on reeds, Frank Harrison piano, Yaron Stavi on bass and Eddie Hick drums - Thursday 13 Oct 8pm

See clips of the gig here and here!

Picture of Gilad at Seven Arts - Tom Swire

Glad he's back in Leeds! Gilad Atzmon founded the Orient House Ensemble band in London in 2000. Since then the ensemble toured extensively around the world. It has produced six albums in nine  years.

Gilad Atzmon's music moves more and more towards a cultural hybrid.  He is interested in exploring the meaning of urban folk, the cultural melting pot of the contemporary city.   Along the years he has managed to merge the music of the Middle East and Eastern Europe together with Jazz and contemporary improvised music.As a member of the Blockheads, Gilad has recorded and performed with such as Ian Dury, Robbie Williams, Sinead O'Connor and Paul McCartney. As a bandleader and reed player he has been amazing his listeners with his powerful personal style that combines great bebop artistry and Middle-Eastern roots in a sophisticated, sometimes ironical manner. Gilad's live performances are simply breathtaking and overwhelming.
 
Yaron Stavi is on double bass and electric bass. He has performed with artists across Europe including Peter King, Larry Coryell, Jarek Smietana, Leszek Mozdzer, Gary Husband, Gene Calderazzo, and Stephen Keogh.

Frank Harrison was born in Oxford on 8 July 1978. In 1994 he won the soloist award in the Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Competition, and in 1996 placed second in Young Jazz Musician Of The Year. fter taking up a scholarship at Berklee School Of Music, Boston, he returned to England and joined Gilad Atzmon's band.

Eddie Hick was born in Yorkshire in started playing drums aged 13 at school. Aged 18 he enrolled on the BA jazz degree here in Leeds at the College of Music. Whilst in his 2nd year at Leeds College of Music he met Gilad Atzmon and Stephen Keogh at a workshop who both encouraged him and he joined Orient House in 2009.

 

Gilad Atzmon and Orient House Ensemble play at Seven Arts on Thursday 13th October, Doors open 8pm, music is 8.30-11pm.

 

Tickets £15/12 concessions in advance from Seven Arts 0113 26 26 777 or on the door. Stand by tickets for full time students are £5 on the door only.