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Released: Jan 1, 2009

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Genre: Classical / Experimental / Jazz
Location London, Please select your region, Un
Profile Views: 175597
Last Login: 11/2/2011
Member Since 5/3/2006
Website www.empiricalmusic.com
Record Label Naim Jazz
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Multi award-winning jazz sensation Empirical have won the MOBO Award in 2010’s Best Jazz Act category for their album Out ‘n’ In............................. “Big Thanks To MOBO for recognising British jazz, it’s our honour. Thanks to everyone who voted for us” ...Empirical.......................... Empirical’s smart post-bop musical style - coupled with its suited and booted sartorial sharpness - has drawn admiring notices on both sides of the Atlantic. Its self-titled debut recording, released on Courtney Pine’s Destin-E label in 2007, went on to be voted Jazzwise magazine's album of the year, and Mojo magazine’s jazz album of the year. Expertly incorporating elements of classical, African and Cuban musical forms into its original, sophisticated, fresh-sounding jazz, Empirical makes a point of not centring itself around a specific front line or leader; it is very much a complete band, each member contributing equally, adding their own facets to the overall sound........................... In May 2008, Empirical collected the Ensemble of the Year prize at the annual Parliamentary Jazz Awards, held at the House of Commons, and organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group. This award was just the latest in a succession of accolades the band has picked up in its short lifetime: Empirical’s award-winning assault on the jazz scene began at the North Sea Jazz Festival in July 2007 when it won the inaugural EBU/European Jazz Competition; this was followed later that year by the Peter Whittingham Jazz Award.......................................... Gracing the stages of some of the most prestigious international festivals, including the iconic Newport Jazz Festival (Rhode Island, USA), as well as Canada’s Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto and Montreal jazz festivals, Empirical continue to deliver performances that encapsulate, inspire and quite frankly, wow their audiences..................................... Recent international success has included appearances this year at two of Europe’s most prestigious festivals - Jazz sous les Pommiers, Coutances, France and Jazz a Liège in Belgium, garnering high praise from the latter's programmer Sam Pierot, who remarked "....the best I saw during the festival - super musicians!"........................................ Further adding to their European achievements, Empirical is one of the few British bands featured at the renowned Molde International Jazz Festival this summer............................................... Empirical’s much anticipated second album, Out ‘n' In, produced by Jason Yarde, and featuring special guest Julian Siegel, was released on Naim Jazz in September 2009. Out ‘n' In pays tribute to Eric Dolphy’s musical legacy through nine Dolphy-inspired original compositions and two new arrangements of his work: Hat and Beard and Gazzelloni. The album featured prominently in Mojo magazine’s top ten jazz albums of 2009, as well as appearing in several other top ten lists – not to mention, garnering rave reviews in the US media..................................... .. .. ...... ..... ..... ....AGENT.... Air Artist Agency T:+44 (0)207 386 1610 | M:+44 (0)7951 611 850 | F:+44 (0)207 386 1619 A: Unit 27, The Quadrangle, 49 Atalanta Street, London, SW6 6TU www.airartistagency.com .... .... ....LABEL.... Simon Drake.. Naim Jazz.. T: 01722 426600.. ..www.naimlabel.com.... .... .... .... ....MYSPACE DESIGN.... Alex Strasman.. alexgrafik.. E: ..alexgrafik@live.com.... ..... .... .... .... ...... ...... ...... .. .... .... .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .... .... .. .... .... Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2009 - BEST ENSEMBLE.. EBU/European Jazz Competition - WINNER 2007.. Peter Whittingham Award - WINNER December 2007.. Jazzwise - ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2007.. Mojo - JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2007
Members
Tom Farmer, Shaney Forbes, Nathaniel Facey, Lewis Wright Special Guests George Fogel Freddie Gavita Julian Siegel
Influences
Empirical’s teachers: Martin Hathaway, Simon Purcell, Ian Ballamy, Dave Wickins, Simon Purcell, Liam Noble, Steve Watts, Donkin, Jean Toussaint, James Allsop Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Booker Little, Miles Davis, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Branford Marsalis, Ray Brown, Jimmy Garrison, Bob Hurst, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Ben Riley, Thelonious Monk, Wynton Kelly, Eric Dolphy Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, Steve Coleman, Rudresh Mahanthrappa, Steve Lehman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Brotzmann, Brad Melhdau, Miguel Zenon, Larry Grenadier, Albert Ayler, Charles Gayle, Mark Turner, Jeff Tain Watts, Marcus Gilmore... Other genres: Ali Farka Toure, Headhunters, Dr Dre, D'Angelo, The Roots, Jay-Z, Marcus Miller, Los Van Van...
Sounds Like
..BBC Music Magazine.... "Expertly sequenced with a fine sensibility for the music...as close to taking the band home as it gets!" .... ..Evening Standard.... "Intelligent, spacey music with absorbing solos." .... ..Jazzwise.... "Graceful...dramatic and subtle...a daring maturity that can only bode well for the future!" .... ..Mojo.... "Empirical continue to astonish with their spirit and skill."