10th March 2015: Tam de Villiers ‘Panacea’ UK tour starts March 11th featuring David Prez, Frédéric Chiffoleau and Karl Jannuska + Promo Video and review from Jazz Breakfast.

For the the best part of a decade, the quartet of British-born guitarist Tam de Villiers has been striving for musical authenticity, compositional originality and honest group interplay. Panacea is a collection of varying pieces, instrumental and vocal, that takes the listener on both a cerebral and visceral voyage, where the natural feel and organic execution of the material draws the listener in while allowing appreciation of the band’s exuberant interactions without its compositional depth and complexity burying their musicality.

Tam de Villiers and his Quartet featuring David Prez-tenor saxophone, Frédéric Chiffoleau-double bass and Karl Jannuska-drums
start their Panacea tour tomorrow (dates below). For full details including how to buy tickets go: here

Prior to the start of the tour, we have just received this review:

” The fact that de Villiers, drummer Karl Jannuska, saxophonist David Prez and double and electric bassist Frédéric Chiffoleau have played an awful lot as a unit and that they have strong and characterful jazz chops means that the resulting sounds are full of lithe movement, energy and passion. The inclusion of guest vocalist Gabor Winand, who navigates, mostly wordlessly, some pretty unusual progressions, also leavens the mix.”
Jazz Breakfast (full review)

TOUR DATES

11/03/15  Swing Unlimited Jazz Club Alum Chine, Bournemouth UK
8:00pm.

12/03/15  Sound Cellar Poole UK
8:00pm.

13/03/15  Birmingham Jazz Birmingham UK
7:45pm.

14/03/15 Shrewsbury Jazz Network Shrewsbury UK
7:45pm.

15/03/15  Southampton Modern Jazz Club Southampton UK
7:45pm.

17/03/15 Dempsey’s Cardiff, Wales UK
7:45pm.

18/03/15  Leeds College of Music Leeds UK
1:00pm.

Workshop
18/03/15  Lescar Sheffield UK
8:00pm.

20/03/15  Bebop Club Bristol UK
8:00pm.

22/03/15  Splinter Jazz Newcastle upon Tyne UK
8:00pm.