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  • Mon Aug 20 2007
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  • Boat-Ting at The Yacht Club, Temple Pier, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 2PN
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  • By Mike Flynn

    Posted: Mon Aug 13 2007

  • Happy doesn’t often make a good story or sell records in rock or pop, and in jazz it’s even worse – you’d better take yourself really seriously if you want even a shred of credibility. And yet Led Bib drummer and bandleader Mark Holub,  a veritable festival of open-mouthed grins and barely suppressed joy when he plays, is currently the most credible thing going in UK jazz.

    The New Jersey-born drummer moved here sometime in 2003 after a disappointing time as a young pro in NYC where, despite breaking into the downtown scene, rubbish lounge jazz gigs still paid his rent. Forming Led Bib while doing his music MA at Middlesex Uni, members were selected through trial-and-error jams, with the current line up the one that gelled best. Led Bib offer a unique interface between US free jazz forbears Last Exit and The Decoding Society and UK no-wavers Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bear, where free improv and ’70s British rock collide. With a twin alto-sax frontline of Chris Williams and Pete Grogan, the slicing and dicing Fender Rhodes of Toby Mclaren and punky funk bass of Israeli-born Liran Donin, Led Bib are a lean, mean improv machine. Their latest album ‘Sizewell Tea’ (named after a café they visited near the infamous power station) does a decent job of capturing their mix of fuzzy free spaces spiked with puckish hooks, contrasting lyricism and unashamed rock power. Really though, it’s live where their loud, raw energy and Holub’s mischievous stop-start onslaught are best heard. And just like their leader, afterwards you’ll be grinning too.
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  • Boat-Ting atThe Yacht Club, Temple Pier, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 2PN
    , UK
    Geo: 51.510712, -0.112172
  • 020 7836 1566
  • Category: Jazz, Latin & Improv
  • Times: 8pm
  • Price: £6, concs £4
  • Tube: Temple

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