Phronesis
Jasper Høiby – double bass
Ivo Neame – piano
Anton Eger – drums
NEWS
- iTunes will have two bonus tracks listed on their track listing for Phronesis’ upcoming live album ‘Alive’ released on 26th July 2010. A digital booklet of the artwork will also be available from all digital retailers.
- Phronesis have been confirmed for cover feature of the August issue of Jazzwise Magazine. Available from last week of July.
- Read the 4 star review in the Scotsman of their performance at the Glasgow Jazz Festival – http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/Gig-review-Phronesis.6380509.jp
- Phronesis have been confirmed to perform at the British Jazz Festival at Ronnie Scott’s on 3rd Aug. For more info and to book tickets click here
- Phronesis have also just been nominated for Jazz Ensemble of the Year alongside at the 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.
BIOGRAPHY
The most exciting and imaginative piano trio since EST’ Jon Newey (Editor of Jazzwise Magazine)
Phronesis was created by Copenhagen-born London-based bassist Jasper Høiby in 2005, following his graduation from the Royal Academy of Music.
Høiby created a name for himself as the bass lynch pin of the Loop Collective (set up by a generation of like-minded jazz musicians who wanted to create a network of shared resources and a platform for artistic collaborations) and an associate of the celebrated F-IRE collective. He continues to perform with Loop bands Jim Hart’s Gemini, Fringe Magnetic and Ivo Neame’ s Quartet in addition to other high profile projects Tom Arthurs’ Arthurs.Høiby.Ritchie trio, the Mark Lockheart Group, Marius Neset, Julia Biel, and Compassionate Dictatorship.
As a leader Høiby has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting talents on the London scene, following in the tradition of great bass leaders such as Avishai Cohen, heading up a trio with a strong identity of its own. Høiby’s compositions are anchored on powerful, melodic and often hypnotic bass grooves, whilst British pianist Neame’s heart-stoppingly beautiful harmonic ideas and continually unfolding melodic lines and Swedish drummer Eger’s astonishingly accomplished rhythmic textures combine to create a vibrant distinctive sound.
Phronesis’ charismatic live performances are an adventure in group interplay leading Jazzwise editor Jon Newey to state recently of the trio in live performance – ‘Phronesis have risen! The most exciting and imaginative piano trio since EST’. The accessible and often simple melodies create a surround soundscape of original stories, taking the listener on an impassioned journey from haunting melancholy through playful humour to positive life-affirmation.
Phronesis’ debut album Organic Warfare was released in November 2007 on Loop Records. Organic Warfare was in the US iTunes ‘top 100 selling albums’ charts for two months following its release, and has to date, sold more than 12,000 downloads internationally.
Their hotly anticipated second album Green Delay was released in June 2009. The album has met with huge critical acclaim from The Guardian, Jazzwise and The Times, with Jazzwise voting it as one of their top ten albums of 2009 and journalist Chris Parker describing it as ‘a compulsively listenable, often downright haunting album’.
This success has led to Phronesis signing to impressive new UK jazz label Edition Records, for whom they recorded their third album live in March 2010 as part of a UK tour. Featured on this album is US drummer Mark Guiliana (‘fast-rising star of the drum world’ – Time Out). The album is due for release in summer 2010.
‘Behind the Aristotlean name lurks an inspired piano trio led by the Danish double-bassist Jasper Hoiby. Drums and bass are to the fore on this beautifully recorded second album, with intricate grooves underpinning Ivo Neame’s lyrical piano. Has many of the qualities that made EST such a hit’ - The Times ****
‘…the bass sounds rich in both melody and sensuous, dancey rhythms on some very fine original themes inspired by Mediterranean, Latin and East European folk music. Fans of Avishai Cohen or EST would do well to check this one out’. – Jazzwise
‘Høiby’s instrumental abilities easily match his compositional flair’ – John L Walters – The Guardian
‘I know I’m going to keep listening’ – Avishai Cohen
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