The Lab will also feature appearances by visiting performers, drummer Mark Sanders and guitarist Jamie Smith, and Stet Lab (ir)regulars including Andrea Bonino, Han-earl Park, Paul Dowling, Neil O’Loghlen, Owen Sutton, Veronica Tadman and Kevin Terry.

This may turn out to be the most exciting Lab thus far. Please come along to witness, hear and support music in progress, in process, in performance and in play.

…And, as a sampler, here’s a clip of Dunmall with Tony Marsh and Nick Stephens:

Dunmall, Park, Sanders and Smith will also be performing at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork on Wednesday, February 11th 2009 at 1:10 pm as part of the UCC Concert Series.

Performers who want to sit-in, if possible, please contact us in advance of the event. There are a number of performers this month, and this is likely to be one of the most complex Labs logistically. As we’ve stated elsewhere, although we’d like to give as many people an opportunity to perform, in practice, this may not be feasible. Get in touch, and we’ll do our best.

Stet Lab with saxophonist-improviser Paul Dunmall

Tuesday, February 10th 2009

9:00 pm (doors: 8:45 pm)

Upstairs @ The Roundy [map…]
Castle Street
Cork, Ireland

€10 (€5)

Cork’s monthly improvised music event, Stet Lab, presents an extraordinary musical encounter between veteran improviser-saxophonist Paul Dunmall, Cork-based improvisers, and special guests. This musical meeting and performance takes place upstairs at The Roundy, Castle Street, on Tuesday, 10th February 2009 at 9:00 pm.

A virtuoso saxophonist, Dunmall has been described as a “robust and heavy-hitting performer who has gone on to concentrate largely on free improvisation without sacrificing a rigorous melodic logic, a sparing lyricism and the technique to drop in on bebop occasionally” (John Fordham, The Guardian). He is a groundbreaking innovator within the international jazz and improvised music traditions, and “a musician who can wail convincingly without abandoning his intellect” (All Music Guide).

A sensitive and endlessly inventive collaborator, with a career spanning thirty years, Dunmall has performed with many musicians including Alice Coltrane, Barry Guy, Tony Levin, Paul Rogers, Danny Thompson, Keith Tippett and Johnny Guitar Watson, and as part of ensembles such as Mujician, London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the Elton Dean’s ensembles.

“I’m very, very excited to have Paul performing with us,” says Stet Lab curator and founder Han-earl Park. “I don’t think anyone will disagree that Paul is our highest profile guest to date, and I have no doubt that this encounter will have a lasting impact on all our musics—a transformation!” He adds, “this is the kind of event that Stet Lab has been preparing for over the last fifteen months—a meeting between an international saxophone colossus and local improvising musicians—and I think we’re ready.”

Performing with Dunmall will be a gathering of local improvisers including vocalist Veronica Tadman, guitarist Kevin Terry, and a trio of two very different bass players—Paul Dowling Tony O’Connor and Neil O’Loghlen. The evening will open with a duet between visiting English guitarist Jamie Smith and the Cork-based guitarist Han-earl Park.

The event will begin at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45 pm) and entry is €10 (€5).

Stet Lab will return in March with more left-field, real-time musical interactions.

Paul Dunmall will also be performing at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork on Wednesday, 11th of February 2009 at 1:10 pm. As part of the UCC Concert Series, that event will feature Dunmall with guitarists Han-earl Park and Jamie Smith, and drummer Mark Sanders.

updates:

02-01-09 Tony O’Connor has other engagements and will not be performing at this event.