PAUL DUNMALL & PERCY PURSGLOVE QUARTET

Saxophone colossus Paul Dunmall and the brilliant Trumpeter Percy Pursglove reunite in a new quartet including the exceptional bassist Olie Brice (who was here in May with Dee Byne's Outlines) and one of Europe's most respected drummers and regular Dunmall collaborator, Mark Sanders.

With Percy Pursglove based in Germany these days it's rare for him to play in UK let alone Bristol but up to 2020 Percy was a regular star performer at Fringe Jazz featuring in Andy Sheppard's Hotel Bristol, Iain Ballamy Quartet, several Paul Dunmall bands, PERDATO (with Tony Orrell and Dan Moore) and as a special guest augmenting the Pushy Doctors to a quartet. Pursglove is now rated as one of the top trumpeters in Europe and is a member of the prestigious NDR Big Band in Hamburg. So when Paul Dunmall mentioned that Percy was coming over from Germany for a short tour playing London and Birmingham, we had to move our schedule around to make sure a visit to The Bristol Music Club could be included. Paul and Percy last played Fringe Jazz (coincidently with Olie Brice on Bass) on the 5th Feb 2020, that was a superlative gig and with the addition of Mark Sanders, tonight promises to be a very special evening of music. Don't miss it.

 

He has performed with Alice Coltrane, Rashied Ali, Hamid Drake, Andrew Cyrille, Henry Grimes, Elton Dean, Evan Parker, Alan Skidmore, Keith Tippett, Mujician, Johnny Guitar Watson, Danny Thompson, LJCO, Chris Corsano, Paul Rogers, Andy Sheppard, Spirit Level and many more...

 

"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

 

 

PERCY PURSGLOVE is a multi-instrumentalist trumpeter, double bassist, educator, improviser and composer, working internationally across a broad spectrum of jazz, contemporary classical and creative musical settings.

Evan Parker, NDR Bigband, WDR Big Band, Food w/Thomas Stronen/Iain Ballamy, Bill Frissell, Barry Guy, Peter Evans, Dan Weiss, Takuya Kuroda, Michael Gibbs, Thomas Morgan, John Hollenbeck, Mark Dresser, Victor Bailey, Drew Gress, Ben Monder, Paul Dunmall, Jason Rebello, Phil Woods, Claudio Roditi, Evan Parker, Jakob Bro, Elliott Sharpe, Vince Mendoza, Peter Erskine, Django Bates, Steve Swallow, Chris Potter, Gerald Clayton, Dave Liebman, Dave Holland, Hamid Drake, Jim Black, Pablo Held, Joe Martin, Jeff Ballard, Omar Sosa, Enrico Pieranunzi, Kit Downes, Norma Winstone, Andy Sheppard, Elbow, Jamie Cullum, Laura Mvula, Gregory Porter, Dr John and Amy Winehouse.