19th March 2018: Andrew Bain’s tours ‘Embodied Hope’ this Spring with George Colligan, Jon Irabagon and Michael Janisch

New routes in musical exploration are at the heart of drummer Andrew Bain’s episodic suite, Embodied Hope – a project with pianist George Colligan, saxophonist Jon Irabagon and bassist Michael Janisch. With this album, Bain, an influential percussionist and educator in Birmingham, England (and a first-call sideman both in the UK and the States), takes jazz as a metaphor for positive change in the world, and based on seven aspects – listening, surprise, accompaniment, practice, responsibility, trust and, ultimately, hope – this work is defined both by its distinct flexibility of expression and the quartet’s ongoing appraisal of what it progressively achieves.

The band will be touring Embodied Hope starting next month and for full details and tickets click: here

Andrew Bain – drums
George Colligan – piano
Jon Irabagon – tenor saxophone
Michael Janisch – double bass

“A life-enhancing and hope-filled album.”
Sandy Brown Jazz