Spice Jazz Soho: Academy Jazz Ensemble featuring Jason Yarde and Nick Smart

After 25 years of solid jazz promoting, as founded by Paul Pace, at the Spice of Life Soho, nurturing upcoming talents as well as established masters of the music, the SpiceJazz Team (Tara Minton and Clement Regert) are excited to relocate their acclaimed operation to the well-appointed and stylish music room of Crazy Coqs.

The students from the acclaimed Royal Academy of Music Jazz Department will present an ensemble, mentored by and featuring the legendary composer and saxophonist Jason Yarde, will present a set of original music by Jason and from within the ensemble – which will also include head of jazz, trumepter Nick Smart.

Jason Yarde is widely regarded as one of the most original and exciting, genre busting voices to emerge in the British Jazz scene over the last several generations – and he continues to inspire in his role as mentor to young musicians. This ’side by side’ project is a rare chance to see intergenerational music making with established stalwarts of the scene and emerging young stars, composing and improvising together.

Exact line up: TBC