This is BruMing

A just-more-than-a-century anniversary tribute to two contrasting heroes of American music: chamber jazz composer Dave Brubeck and the titanic force of nature who was Charles Mingus. Expect inventive quartet reworkings of Moanin’, Better Get Hit In Your Soul, It’s a Raggy Waltz, Take Five and much more...

The BruMing Band celebrates the music of two celebrated jazz pioneers, Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus. Both of these bandleaders put out ground-breaking albums in 1959: 'Time Out' and 'Ah Um', respectively; it is from these recordings that The BruMing Band draw their material.

The band features David Gordon on piano, an inventive musician who draws on a hugely diverse musical background ranging from playing harpsichord at the BBC Proms to outrageous piano stylings with such jazz luminaries as Wynton Marsalis, Chris Garrick, Jacqui Dankworth, and tango with Zum and the London Tango Quintet.

On saxes is Bristol-based Jake McMurchie. Jake's huge sound and inventiveness have made him a key member of many innovative and exciting bands, notably Get The Blessing, Michelson Morley, Out Front, among many others.

Mingus’s huge shoes are filled by the bassist Sandy Burnett. Sandy has worked as a musical director at the RSC National Theatre and spent over a decade as one of BBC Radio 3’s core presenters; this all aside from his regular jazz work with many of the finest musicians in the UK.

Completing the line-up on drums is Paul Cavaciuti who spent over a decade living in the US where he absorbed the language of jazz first-hand. His infectious groove and creative playing have featured in a multitude of different musical contexts. He has worked with a huge number of the top names in British jazz (including many years touring and recording with the David Gordon Trio) and has had his playing described by ‘Musician Magazine’ as “outstanding and virtuosic”.

The Band

Sandy Burnett / Double bass

When he's not playing double bass with many of the UK's leading jazz musicians, Sandy is one of the UK's most versatile music commentators, enjoying a career that combines broadcasting, performing and lecturing. After studying at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and working as music director for the RSC, National Theatre and in London's West End, Sandy Burnett spent a decade as one of the core team of presenters on BBC Radio 3. He devises and leads cultural holidays all over the world, spent a season as the Academy of Ancient Music's Hogwood Fellow, and runs an online classical music appreciation Listening Club. Back to the bass, he performs chamber music at the annual Burton Bradstock Festival, and is a member of the Peter Rudeforth Sextet, Blue Harlem, and the Friday night house band at the Chelsea Arts Club in West London. With tonight's pianist and composer David Gordon he set up Tenor Madness to explore the creative possibilities of improvising on Renaissance and Baroque themes.

www.sandyburnett.com

David Gordon / Piano

Harpsichordist, jazz pianist, and composer, David Gordon trained as a mathematician before turning to music full-time and he has since toured all over the world with: the gypsy-tango band Zum, the baroque orchestra The English Concert, the piano-led jazz group David Gordon Trio, and the early music/jazz group Respectable Groove. He has played with Wynton Marsalis, violinists Nigel Kennedy, Christian Tetzlaff, Daniel Pioro, and Andrew Manze, and singer Jacqui Dankworth. A self-taught jazz player, he appears on countless CDs as composer, leader, and sideman; many of his works have been broadcast worldwide and he has compositions regularly commissioned by festivals, publishers, and fellow musicians.

www.davidmusicgordon.com

Paul Cavaciuti / Drums

Paul Cavaciuti is an internationally renowned performer, composer, music teacher and therapist. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston (USA) and has played, toured and recorded with some of the top names in British and American music, including David Gordon, Nick Meier, Sheryl Bailey, Chris Garrick, Jim Mullen, Tina May, Jacqui Dankworth, Christie Hennessy, Donovan, Howard Alden, The New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), the London Chamber Orchestra and many others.

Paul is an extremely active music educator. He was chairman of the percussion department at the Musician’s Institute (MI) in London and lectures extensively on music education. He has conducted numerous workshops on jazz improvisation, including at the Royal Academy of Music and the Purcell School. He is also a graduate of the Institute for Music and Health in New York and taught for several years at the Centre for Applied Music Research at Roehampton University, where he specialised in working with children and young people with autism and visual impairment.

Jake McMurchie / Saxophones

Born in London, raised in Bristol, Cambridge educated, Jake McMurchie has been an influential member of the thriving South West jazz scene for over three decades. His distinctive sound, imagination and melodic invention have made him a key member of many of the most innovative and exciting bands to emerge from the south west, notably Get The Blessing, Michelson Morley, Out Front, 6161, The Jazz Defenders, Uphill Game, Tony Orrell’s Big Top, Jade, Sefrial, What Four, Ultrasound, to name just a few. In 2022, he was included in the Marlbank feature “UK Saxophone: 30 leading the way”

www.jakemcmurchie.net