Mark Cherrie Quartet (album launch)
Fri, 15 Nov
|The Verdict
The UK’s Finest Exporter Of Steel Pan Jazz Returns With Deep And Personal New Album
Time & Location
15 Nov 2024, 19:30 – 22:00
The Verdict, 159 Edward St, Kemptown, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JB, UK
About the event
Mark Cherrie - steel pan
John Donaldson - piano
Tom Mason - acoustic bass
Eric Ford - drums
Any Anxious Colour is the new album by The Mark Cherrie Quartet. Written and arranged by the steel pan aficionado during the dreaded lockdown period of 2020, this new recording marks a change of approach from the quartet’s previous album ‘Joining in The Dots’, as Mark explains: “Seeing as the band hadn’t released an album since 2018, I thought it high time that we had some new tunes to play (and ultimately record), so I set quill to paper. Joining The Dots was more weighted towards covers of both pop and jazz classics and I had thought that the new album would take the same shape, but with my imagination being given free rein, I found that these tunes virtually wrote themselves and there was little room for covers.”
The result of…