Welcome
(Photo: Juliet Kelly by Lorna Rhodes)
I’m teaming up with acclaimed jazz singer and songstress Juliet Kelly for the LJF. We will be playing a selection of songs that will take you on a journey across Europe and evoking the sounds and influences of the continent. Including especially chosen standards and covers, as well as newly composed originals from myself and Juliet.
11 November 2011 – 1pm
The Southbank Centre, London
13 November
The Arts Depot, London
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Radio Interview and live performance
A radio interview and live performance with myself and ben davis on cello from “the jazz show”. Broadcast sunday 9th october on Radio Hayes and Blast Radio.
It’s also an opportunity to hear a sneak preview of the new Oriole album, Every New Day!
Radio www.thejazzshowonline.com/
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Jonny Phillips & Dorian Ford Duo
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Seb Rochford & Kit Downes Duo
Thursday 6 | 8.30pm | £8 | The Vortex Jazz Club – London
Thanks to everyone who came to this. There is a short video below, its bad quality, in-fact it actually looks like we are in a vortex for real! Seb Rochford played with us on this track entitled Sierva Maria.
A rare opportunity to hear myself and pianist Dorian Ford step out of our usual roles to explore the music of the masters such as Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett alongside noir-like originals.
Dorian is an incredible talent not to be missed.
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“Good Times” (represented by – Lift Music)
New Retro Lounge Library Classics by Joe Leach and Jonny Phillips
“Good Times” the first album by Das Hoot now on iTunes. Featuring the funtastic Kitty La Roar (Vocals), Pete Long (Contrabass sax), Simon Finch & Damon Brown (Trumpet), Jamie Anderson (Tenor sax), Jonny Phillips & Little Barry (Guitar), Jim Watson & Gary Moberley (Hammond), Oren Marshal (Tuba), Ian Tripp & Pete Exford (Percussion), Rob Mullarkey & Simon Little (Bass), Mark Fletcher (Drums), Joe Leach (Piano and Analogue Synths ). Compositions by Joe Leach and Jonny Phillips.
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Oriole – Live at Kings Place
Photo by Roger Thomas (Click here for Rogers review on the London Jazz Blog)
F-IRE FESTIVAL RHYTHMIC FRONTIERS: Oriole
John Fordham
guardian.co.uk, Monday 30 May 2011
“The closing night took in a workshop for founder Barak Schmool’s Royal Academy students, Bates’s Beloved Bird Trio, and world-music guitarist Jonny Phillips’s Oriole, playing the cinematic sonic-travelogue from the group’s upcoming Every New Day album.
The F-ire philosophy was at the core of Phillips’s show. An evolving relationship between Schmool on congas and Bosco de Oliveira on drums furnished absorbing contrasts: with the lyrical and softly propulsive sound of the leader’s acoustic guitar; with a texture-rich lineup including the imaginative cellist Ben Davis and powerful tenor saxist Idris Rahman. Glowering Spanish harmonies, rhythmically devious sambas and broad-horizon ruminations characterised Phillips’s atmospherically songlike music, and its periodic jazz diversions sharpened the edges.”
Oriole will soon to releasing there long awaited
third album “Every New Day” on F-ire Recorded music.
Expect highly visual music
celebrating the power of people, places,
travels and moments in time that
will stay with you long after they have past.
Coming soon……
