
JAZZ at the ELEPHANT
The Elephant Inn • 283 Ballards Lane • London • N12 8NR
020 8343 6110 • info@justeastofjazz.com
Sunday 16 Feb 2025
Doors open 6.30pm (if possible please arrive in good time to be in your seat by 7pm, and to avoid the rush on food & drink orders).
Performance times: 7–9.15pm
£17/£6
Students/unwaged: turn up on the night and pay what you can
16 February:
saxophonist
Theo Travis
Theo Travis plays saxophone, flute and duduk and is a prolific composer and music producer.
He was born in Birmingham but moved to London where he soon established himself as one of the finest tenor sax players on the British jazz scene. He has led his own jazz quartet for 25 years, recorded ten albums as leader having composed, arranged and produced the material and performed all over the UK as well as at Ronnie Scott’s Club in London over 75 times.
He is increasingly known as one of the top saxophone and flute players in the world in Progressive music and has appeared as featured soloist on over 150 albums. With guitarist Robert Fripp he formed Travis & Fripp in 2007 and the duo have toured internationally and recorded 5 albums which Travis co-wrote and produced.
Theo is a member of the legendary band Soft Machine, taking over from the late Elton Dean, and he has co-written and co-produced their last two albums Hidden Details and Live at the Baked Potato as well as toured America, Canada, Europe, Japan and Brazil.
Travis has performed and recorded extensively with Steven Wilson as featured soloist, and they have worked on 23 albums together. Travis also was a member of Gong from 1999 to 2009 and in 2015 he joined David Gilmour’s band for the Rattle that Lock tour. Travis has also performed and recorded with David Sylvian, Bill Nelson, The Tangent, Roger Eno, Keith Tippett, Harold Budd, John Foxx, Steve Hillage, John Etheridge, Cipher and Mick Karn.
In 2014 he wrote his first book Twice around the world, a diary of blogs from the Steven Wilson world tours of 2012/13 and he has appeared as a walk on artist in film and TV such as Notting Hill, the Bond movie Die Another Day and Foyle’s War. He lives in London with his wife, son, dog and 20 saxes and flutes.
with Neil Angilley: piano • Mike Outram: guitar • Dave Jones: bass • Rick Finlay: drums
Sunday 2 March 2025
Doors open 6.30pm (if possible please arrive in good time to be in your seat by 7pm, and to avoid the rush on food & drink orders).
Performance times: 7–9.15pm
£17/£6
Students/unwaged: turn up on the night and pay what you can
2 March:
trumpeter
Mike Soper
Burgeoning young talent Mike Soper graduated from Trinity College in 2012. Since then he has played in everything from the trad Old Hat Jazz Band to the Bryan Ferry Orchestra to the Congolese dance influenced Kongo Dia Ntotila, as well as lots of more “conventional” modern jazz.
He cites an eclectic range of influences from musical and other sources. Undoing is the phenomenal debut album under his own name, on which those influences, in particular Steve Coleman and Peter Evans, can all be heard.
He can be heard on Mark Lockheart’s Smiling, the innovative Billy Marrow’s Big Band and many more.
with Simon Woolf: bass • Sean Fyfe: piano • Rick Finlay: drums • Jeremy Shoham: sax
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ADDRESS
The Elephant Inn, 283 Ballards Lane, North Finchley, London N12 8NR • UK