Nick Malcolm, trumpet; Alexander Hawkins, piano; Olie Brice, bass, and Mark Whitlam, drums, play original music on the frontier of structure and free improvisation. Allowing the music to go anywhere, rhythmic cycles and melody are merged and deconstructed in unexpected ways. Having made a big impression at The Vortex and Manchester and Ealing Jazz Festivals in summer 2011, they completed a Jazz Services tour of the UK in June 2012. This was in support of the release of their first album, 'Glimmers', on FMR records. Between them band members have worked with Wadada Leo Smith, Marshall Allen, Mark Sanders, Jake McMurchie (Get The Blessing), Ken Vandermark, Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Ingrid Laubrock, Louis Moholo-Moholo and Mulatu Astatke.

' some of the most promising musicians on the UK's new improv scene' ' (Londonjazz).

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