Collins/Jasnoch at Noise Upstairs @ the Riverside 8.30pm Wed 17th July

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Get involved with this name-in-the-hat Free Improv jam session! Bring along an instrument or just come to listen. There will be a guest act performing at some point during the event.

 

Noise Upstairs @ the Riverside, 1 Mowbray St. S3 8EN

FREE ENTRY

Doors at 8.30pm

Wednesday 17th July

 

Ahead of their upcoming release on the Spanish Makrame Records label, we present two of Sheffield's finest improvisers, John Jasnoch and Charlie Collins. Regular name-in-the-hat jam session precedes and follows their duo set.

 

John Jasnoch began life in 1953 in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. The compost heap of the Garden of England. After interest in instrumental music of Bert Weedon and then The Shadows, began listening to Blues artisits. Acquired Dobro resonator guitar. As a a result of working as lab technician in same lab as Bluegrass banjo player, was persuaded to play Dobro in Bluegrass band – lap style. Moved to Sheffield in 1979, became involved with Sheffield Free Music Group. Joined Bass Tone Trap. Many improvised music performances with ad hoc groups. Played Derek Bailey’s Company Week in 1988. Became firmly embedded in Sheffield’s incrediblely fertile and creative improvised art music community and remain so to this day.

 

Born and raised in Sheffield UK, Charlie Collins is a product of the city’s rich improvising tradition. Since 2007 he has played regularly with altoist Sonny Simmons, collaborated with theremin player Beatrix Ward-Fernandez and worked with free-folk collective The Hunter Gracchus. He has also toured with Ted Daniel and Michael Marcus in their Duology project and performed with Rob Brown and Daniel Levin.

He is one of a handful of musicians to have played both Derek Bailey’s Company Week and Top of the Pops (with Moloko).