10:27am Wednesday 3rd March 2010
JERRY Dammers and his Spatial AKA Orchestra are performing at The Anvil next week.
Dammers, who founded The Specials and 2 Tone Records, is playing for a Basingstoke audience on March 10, from 7.45pm.
With The Specials, the musician helped to revive and redefine ska and bluebeat in the 1980s, but now he has gone off on a more varied musical journey.
Dammers’ Spatial AKA Orchestra puts on an exhilarating, theatrical live performance, mixing things up as reggae, exotica and hip-hop collide with the cosmic jazz of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane.
Dammers has recruited some of the biggest talents on the jazz scene including Mercury Prize-nominated pianist Zoe Rahman, saxophonists Denys Baptiste, Nathaniel Facey (Empirical), Larry Stabbins (Working Week and Stonephace) and Jason Yarde, with Finn Peters on flute and Robin Hopcraft (Soothsayers) on trumpet.
The rhythm section features legendary funk drummer Crispin ‘Spry’ Robinson and there are vocals from Francine Luce and Anthony Joseph.
There’s something for all tastes – from fans of Jerry Dammers and 2Tone to fans of Sun Ra, reggae, exotica, Massive Attack, Portishead, leftfield hip-hop and British modern jazz – and the audience can expect anything from powerful big band swing to chanted vocals.
Tickets are priced at £19.50, or £9.50 for under-16s and students, and more information and tickets are available from the box office, on 01256 844244 or online at anvilarts.org.uk.
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