JAZZNIGHTS Naissance

John Law: piano
John Lloyd: saxophone

Naissance: the final concert of this autumn’s JAZZNIGHTS series at Wainsgate Chapel takes place on Friday November 27^th.

“Sounds like the only music you ever want to hear” Jon Turney, London Jazz News

Naissance is pianist John Law and saxophonist Jon Lloyd, two jazz and improvising musicians who have been playing and recording together since the 1990’s. They started John’s new project Renaissance in 2019, playing improvised saxophone and keyboard lines over ambient looped samples of renaissance sacred vocal music, accompanied by a live visual artist. This toured in UK cathedrals and churches from 2019 - 2022.

Now, as a pared down duo, they present: Naissance. Covering some of the music from Renaissance - mixing live acoustic piano and keyboards with backing track samples - and adding to that some of their original, minimalist compositions. Inspired also by European contemporary jazz, the result is one of interactive lines, like a conversation, with the emphasis on beauty and form.

“Music that trusted silence as much as sound…Naissance delivered an evening of rare grace and beauty; a reminder that the most powerful music experiences are sometimes the most quietly profound” Peter Neale, Shropshire Star

“A subtly intimate collection of gentle, ambient ballads and glittering, distantly Chick Corea reminiscent dances, with Law's coaxing harmonies sensitively framing Lloyd's warm tones.” John Fordham, Guardian,

“Densely conceived and often haunting, especially when Lloyd blows over Law's repeated, carefully varied and embellished piano lines…positively ECM.”Jazzwise,

“Steeped in the ECM aesthetic…sounds like the only music you ever want to hear.”, London Jazz News