Soft Machine
- Miércoles, noviembre 18
- 19:30-22:00
- The Jam Jar Little Ann Street, Bristol BS2 9EB, Reino Unido
Info
Soft Machine is an avant/jazz-rock band whose work, from their earliest performances as a psychedelic band who were contemporaries of, and shared stages with, Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, all the way to being a well-known European fusion band, has influenced several generations of bands and continues to be referenced by today’s experimentalists.
They are coming to The Jam Jar on 18 November at 19h30.
This band is rooted in the 70s version of the group which recorded the Softs album in 1975, led by John Etheridge and completed by saxophonist Theo Travis (Robert Fripp/David Gilmour/Steven Wilson). Since 2021 Roy Babbington has retired from public performance and his chosen successor on the bass is Fred Thelonious Baker, who has been a musician on the Canterbury scene for over 30 years, being a regular collaborator with the late Elton Dean, with Hugh Hopper and with guitarist Phil Miller (In Cahoots/Hatfield and the North).
The band has a broad palette, from Metheny-like jazz-rock to improvisation, from pastoral passages with Etheridge on acoustic to an ambient flutescape from Travis.
- John Etheridge – guitar
- Theo Travis – saxophone, flute, keyboards
- Fred Thelonious Baker – bass
- Asaf Sirkis – drums
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The Jam Jar
Little Ann Street, Bristol BS2 9EB, Reino Unido