Polar Bear
Wednesday 24th February 2010
Venue: The Junction 2
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: Award Winning Jazz
Price Info: £15 advance
Time Info: Doors & Bar 7pm
http://www.junction.co.uk/events/day/2010/02/24/1055-polar-bear
Mercury nominated jazz outfit encompass elements of cool jazz, funk, free jazz, electronica and drum and bass to produce a truly unique sound.
The band have triumphed in recent years, with drummer Sebastian Rochford winning the award for Rising Star at BBC Jazz Awards in 2005, relentless international touring, and invitations play at the Mighty Boosh Festival as well as Portishead asking the band to play at ATP in 2007.
"exploring a mix of trance-like long note music over eerie-hypnotic grooves, full-on electronics&free improv melancholic songs, punky thrashes and some of the best two-sax conversation to be heard on the current scene"
John Fordham, The Guardian
"the big hitters of the new wave"
The Independent
"Polar Bear blast out of the past, full of straight cool school skills, and detonate the past, bursting with an edgy, forward looking-lust"
Paul Morley, Observer Music Monthly
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