TORI FREESTONE AND ALCYONA MICK AT STAPLEFORD GRANARY - Preview
Tori Freestone (r) with Alcyona Mick
Amazing how fast women have permeated the once super-male world of jazz. In the past ten years the phenomenon of feminine jazzers has shaken the (strangely) conservative world of music - to its core. Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick are part of that magical movement . Their debut was the Manchester Jazz Festival and now they ‘re in high demand on the London jazz scene with a welter of radio performances and European venues tucked up their elegant sleeves.
Admired for their‘spontaneous, interactive approach’ and’influences that go beyond the jazz genre, including English folk, Brazilian music, free playing, silent film, and more’. This duo have a lot to offer. Composers, free -stylers, film score innovators -they have it all.
Unbelievably, this week they are far from the cool metropolitan midnight haunts of jazz clubs and out in the fresh afternoon air of Stapleford Granary, the hip place to hang, among the meadows, a mile or so from Cambridge.
Midday marks the starting point of a coffee- focused, newly minted venue – and time .Already a mini-cult the time and place is right for many. Tickets are generously priced and the gig fits fine into any Sunday schedule- be it traditional or eclectic.
It might be a shock to the system, to find ourselves tuned into jazz notes so early, but it’s a fun hip idea with surely a future as a Sunday go-to. Hard for English people to shuffle off the shackles of a regular, uneventful Sunday but you never know- with the company of some of the coolest jazz instrumentalists, as they tackle Latin music alongside Thelonius Monk, this must be worth a try? I am looking forward to the noon- tide shakedown. It doesn’t have to be dark outside to be groovy. Let’s get with these melodic vibes among the Springtime fields of rural Cambridgeshire, only a throw from the city centre by car or bike, but ready to take more of a gamble on a new form of concert- going, than many an urban dive.
May Day may never be the same again.
