8.30 - 11.00pm
£6 on the door
Nottingham born, Tony Kofi studied at the Berklee College of
Music in Boston. Back in the UK he played with The Jazz Warriors and
Gary Crosby's Nu Troop. His subsequent playing credits include Billy
Higgins, Branford Marsalis, Byron Wallen, Claude Deppa, Donald Byrd,
Lonnie Smith, Eddie Henderson, Jazz Jamaica All Stars and the big bands
of Jean Toussaint and Julian Joseph. Tony's quartet was voted best
ensemble at the 2005 Parliamentary Jazz Awards; their CD ‘Plays Monk -
All Is Know’, was awarded ‘BBC Jazz Line-up Album of the Year 2005’. "If
the parameters, as on Kofi's previous albums, are mostly retro, the
impact of the music is again wholly of today. Kofi deals not so much
with the past as with the eternal truths of jazz music - swing,
in-the-moment lyricism, the lust for life - and he continues to find
compelling ways to express them. His albums are heartfelt, unpretentious
explosions of joy, and precisely what the doctor ordered" - Chris May,
Allaboutjazz.com
