Larry Stabbins

Larry Stabbins ”  245
“A Rough Guide to the History of Modern Jazz”

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One of the true greats of British music ……..Gilles Peterson BBC Radio 1
“One of the most innovative saxophonists in Britain” Anthony Wood — The Wire Magazine
“Larry Stabbins is a consummate saxophonist who has been at the cutting edge of jazz for much of his career” Ian Carr -Rough Guide to Jazz

During a long and varied musical career saxophonist Larry Stabbins has worked with most of the important figures at the cutting edge of European Jazz and  Improvisation from Mike Westbrook to Keith Tippett and Germany’s Peter Brotzmann  as well as working with Robert Wyatt and Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA.

Alongside this he played in the seminal pop group Weekend and formed a key writing partnership with its guitarist Simon Booth. This became the basis for Working Week, a project that took  a melange of latin, soul and jazz into the world of pop and dance music.  Born out of the burgeoning Latin Jazz Dance scene in London clubs such as the Electric Ballroom and the Wag, the new band mixed jazz with modish Latin dance rhythms and vocals by singers such as Juliet Roberts, Julie Tippetts ne Driscoll, Robert Wyatt and Tracy Thorn. They became a dominating force in the 80s British jazz revival, the movement that made jazz fashionable again, introducing it to a new young audience and instigating a great upsurge in new talent onto the British Jazz Scene. The band toured extensively in Europe and Japan, performing at most of Europe’s major Jazz Festivals, recording five albums for Virgin Records.
Since then he has  had different projects of his   own across the range of his  interests from totally improvised small groups and solo performances to “Jazz Rap” ( QRZ?) in the early 1990s, “FreeJazz TechnoFunk” (Game Theory) early 2000s, “Psychedelic Hip Hop” ( Stonephace) and freeish “Spiritual Jazz” (Stonephace Stabbins with Zoe Rahman)  around 2010 and a new project “137” with Adrian Utley ( Portishead) Jim Barr (Portishead , Get the Blessing) and Seb Rochford (Polar Bear, Sons of Kemet, Patti Smith).

He appears at the Redwing  playing saxophones, flute and bass clarinet with a new version of the classic acoustic  jazz trio improvising around tunes from across the post war years, with  the cream of new young Cornish jazz musicians,  Tom Dauncey on  Bass and Taylor Daley on  Drums.

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