Jazz, Funk, Fusion & Live Gaming Gig – Fri 9th May – Free Entry

Doors 7.30pm. Start 8pm. Free but registration required.

This creative event welcomes jazz, funk, fusion audiences to not only experience high quality music in concert form, but to also see how this mixed music genre works with live gaming. A truly creative experience that cannot be missed.

To start with there will be a 30 minute set of jazz funk covers you’ll know and after the interval you’ll see the musicians improvise to live gaming scenes. You don’t have to get involved and can come and listen and enjoy the live music. But if you love gaming you can have a go to a live band. How unique is that. Either way, this sit down event is going to be musically creative and free to experience.

Juxter presents: Gaming Gig!

This new project born in the South West aims to bring a new and immersive experience to jazz, funk and fusion music. Juxter features the keyboardist Dave Morecroft (who previously wowed CIC audiences in the Spring in his jazz trio), who had toured across the world with his jazz/punk band WorldService Project, including the major jazz festivals of Tokyo, Goa, Berlin, London and across Europe and the United States.

Dave joins the highly experienced rhythm section of Anthony Channer and Robin Parker in this new venture, with original music devised together by the trio. Jazz, funk and fusion collide in this upbeat musical package, with influences ranging from Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Maceo Parker, Frank Zappa and Herbie Hancock. Blistering keyboard solos will feature alongside funky grooves, captivating riffs and basslines to create an engaging and charismatic musical mix.

Members of the audience will take it in turns to play video games along to the live music from this trio. Keyboard solos will zip you along your racetrack, funky basslines will drive you through colourful lands and driving drum grooves will accompany your 3D adventure!!

A unique experience to hear jazz and improvised music in a unique context with gamers being projected onto the big screen behind the stage. Live musical accompaniment to your gaming experience will be like nothing you’ve ever tried before, and even for those non-gamers, this unique soundtrack partially improvised in the moment will showcase an interesting cross-platform experience; as the actions of the gamer in turn affect and influence the music, and vice versa!