- Produced by Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
- Price Standard Seating: £18.50, Priority Seating: £28.50, Slightly Restricted View: £12.50
- Get ready Out of the ordinary Jazz musicians
- Bring along Friends who are fans of Jazz and Rock
- See you at Ronnie Scott's
One of Norway’s best live bands Elephant 9 featuring Stale Storlokken on hammond/rhodes/electronics, Nicolai Eilertsen on electric bass and Torstein Lofthus on drums.
It´s not often a "jazz" band takes the big step from the club scene to a 1300 capacity rock venue like Oslo´s Rockefeller. But then again, Elephant9 is not your ordinary jazz band, often being named as Norway´s best live band - surely quite rare for an instrumental band - they are equally popular in jazz and rock circles. Elephant9 is a power trio featuring key figures from the adventurous Norwegian scene, who are comfortable with jazz as well as rock. Their albums on the renowned label Rune Grammofon have drawn comparisons with electric jazz from the early 1970s by for example Miles Davis and Tony Williams’ Lifetime. The keyboards playing by Ståle Storløkken (Supersilent, Terje Rypdal) even hints towards Deep Purple and Keith Emerson. Together with drummer Torstein Lofthus (Shining) and bassist Nicolai Eilertsen (The National Bank), this award winning group recorded their most recent album ‘Silver Mountain’ with guitarist Reine Fiske of the Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen, after together recording the highly-acclaimed album Atlantis, a varied set with epic pieces as well as heavy, explosive work.
‘Progressive rock-leaning, improv-heavy space rock’ All About Jazz
‘Call them fusion, prog, psychedelic, or whatever. None of these tags do justice to what Elephant9 are all about. They create music that is as adventurous and powerful as any I have ever heard, and Atlantis is proof positive that they have only just begun’ Seattle P-I
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COMPETITION:
Win 1x pair of tickets to attend Elephant9 at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club at 18:30, Sunday 15th May.
To enter the competition, send an email to ava@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ line. The winner will be randomly selected.
Q: Elephant9 have had a lot of fun inverting expectations of genres many jazz bands would steer well clear of. Which Stevie Wonder track did they manage to cover and make entirely their own?
A: .1) Isn’t She Lovely .2) Living For The City .3) He’s Misstra Know-It-All .4) You Are the Sunshine of My Life
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