Meg Morley Trio with Special Guest Vasilis Xenopoulos
“one of the most exciting on the current UK scene”
All About Jazz
Tonight we are excited to welcome to the Club two outstanding musicians who have never actually played together before, Meg Morley & Vasilis Xenopoulos (we do enjoy musical “match making” here at the Club….)! Deemed an ‘Exceptional Talent’ by Arts Council England, Australian-born pianist Meg Morley plays and composes music for an impressive range of disciplines, including dance (Australian Ballet, Royal Ballet), silent film (BFI, Flatpack Festival, London Cinema Museum), jazz and electronic music. Meg’s solo piano EP, and two trio albums have all been received with significant critical acclaim from outlets including International Piano magazine and All About Jazz. After graduating from the iconic Berklee College of Music, Boston in in the late 2000’s Greek-born saxophonist Vasilis Xenopoulos relocated to the UK and has been here ever since. A highly respected player on the scene his fluent, muscular, creative tenor sax work has been heard with a wide variety of leading British and International musicians and he is best known here at the Club for his regular appearances with the classic hard bop quintet “Five Way Split”. The programme tonight will consist primarily of originals from Meg with contributions also from Vasilis and bass player Tom Farmer. Completing the quartet will be the man who put all this together, Emiliano Caroselli-drums. Exciting stuff!
“… the intelligence, quality and variety of Morley’s writing...incorporates a broad variety of jazz styles ranging from the simple to the complex” The Jazz Mann; “Morley's style is suffused with Jazz and references the Impressionists, revealing new depths on each encounter” International Piano Magazine; “Xenopoulos...outstanding” Guardian; "Xenopoulos…old-school warmth and modern day dynamism" Jazzwise
Photo of Meg Morley by Robert Crowley; Photo of Vasilis Xenopoulos by Tatiana Gorilovsky