Jazz Lates: Camilla George Live

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  • Live Music
  • free
  • Brick Lane
  • Over 18
  • Sat, 10th Aug 2019 @ 20:00 - 1:30
  • 20:00 - 01:30

It is our pleasure to welcome back the exceptionally talented Camilla George to the Living Room this summer for a very special preview of some new material from her forthcoming album, "The People Could Fly".

Camilla George is a London based saxophonist, improviser and composer. She began playing when she was 11 years old where she won a music competition and as a result, won saxophone lessons. Camilla has studied with many jazz greats such as sax giant, Jean Toussaint (of Art Blakey fame), Tony Kofi, Christian Brewer, Julian Siegal and Martin Speake. In 2012 she graduated with a Masters in Jazz from Trinity College of Music where she also won the Archer Scholarship for outstanding performance.

Camilla George follows her critically acclaimed debut album, "Isang" (Ubuntu Music) with "The People Could Fly", a hypnotizing blend of Afro-futurism, hip hop and jazz. The album is named after a book of African folktales that portrays the lives and experiences of African slaves who created stories in which animals have assumed the personalities of the slaves and slave owners. “This is a project which is very close to my heart as I grew up listening to my mum and grandmother tell me these stories,” says George. “I have always been fascinated by these tales and really wanted to explore them further. The message of the book is so important as although these tales were born out of suffering and sorrow, they are essentially stories of hope for black people and mankind that we can one day live together in harmony and are a celebration of the human spirit.”

“The People Could Fly was my favourite story in this collection of tales. The cover illustration showed men and women flying over the cotton fields. The idea behind it is that some Africans were magical and had the ability to fly but through long enslavement lost the ability to fly away,” explains the MOBO-nominated saxophonist. “This image is bittersweet for me as it is a fantasy tale of suffering and is a powerful testament to the millions of slaves who never had the opportunity to fly away.”

George’s band features core members Sarah Tandy, Daniel Casimir, Winston Clifford and Femi Koleso with special guests soul legend Omar Lye-Fook, vocalist Cherise Adams Burnett, guitarist Shirley Tetteh and trumpeter Quentin Collins. “I knew from the moment I decided to write music for these amazing stories that I wanted to expand the sound of my band in order to realise the sounds that I had been hearing in my head, says George. “I was keen to add to the horn section with trumpet and to have both a male and female vocalist as well as guitar which is key in many of my compositions for this album.”

Free entry all evening

Camilla George live from 9pm
DJ (TBA) until 01:30am

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Ninety One Living Room, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL

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Brick Lane

Nearest Station

Shoreditch High Street (Rail)

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Ninety One Living Room

Ninety One Living Room is a jazz club & late night bar in Shoreditch. We offer weekly live jazz and other music events with a delicious food menu and an extensive range of cocktails, beer and wines. Fostering London’s Jazz and Dance Music scenes, Ninety One Living Room has grown a reputation…

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