the
london sinfonietta
March 2004, The London Sinfonietta performed a Frank Zappa's
'Jazz From Hell'.
Together with the FuseLeeds04 festival, the Brugge concertgebouw comissioned
Jonny Greenwood (ex-Radiohead) and jazz pianist Django Bates to
write and to arrange some pieces for the London Sinfonietta. Django Bates
arranged Zappa's 'Jazz From Hell'.
London Sinfonietta, cond. Martyn Brabbins
November 2010, The London London Sinfonietta performed the UK
premiere of music from The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary at the "Frank Zappa at the
Roundhouse" festival in London, UK.
At the same performance, Jeff Simmons
performed a solo set.
concerts
- 2004/03/03 concert 'quarry theatre / west yorkshire playhouse', leeds, uk
- the program
- Django Bates: Umpteenth Violin Concerto - world premiere
solo: Ernst Kovacic: violin
- Markus Stockhausen: Portrait for Tara - world premiere
solo: Tara Bouman: bassethorn
- Frank Zappa: Jazz From Hell (arr. Django Bates) - UK
premiere
- various: Premature Celebration: a birthday tribute to Evan
Parker (arr.
Django Bates) - world premiere
solo: Evan Parker: sax & Paul Lytton: drums
- Jonny Greenwood: Smear - world premiere
solo: Valerie Hartmann-Claverie & Bruno Perrault: ondes martenot
- Kate Rusby: Underneath the Stars (arr. Django Bates) -
world premiere
- 2004/03/06 concert 'concertgebouw', brugge, belgium
- set one
- Frank Zappa: Jazz from Hell (arr. Django Bates)
- Django Bates: Django's Umpteenth Violin Concerto
solo: Ernst Kovacic: violin
- Jonny Greenwood: Smear
solo: Valerie Hartmann-Claverie & Bruno Perrault: ondes martenot
- set two
- Jonny Greenwood: Bodysong
- Markus Stockhausen: Portrait for Tara
solo: Tara Bouman: bassethorn
- various: Premature Celebration: a birthday tribute to Evan
Parker (arr.
Django Bates)
solo: Evan Parker: sax & Paul Lytton: drums
- 2010/11/07 concert "Frank Zappa at the Roundhouse", London, UK
