Caught in the Light of Day
Pianist and composer Ivo Neame has fast become one of the most interesting musicians to emerge on the UK Jazz scene in recent years and together with some of the most in demand musicians in the business released his second album, ‘Caught in the Light of Day’ on Edition Records, on 30th November 2009.
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“Mutli-layered opus from multi-talented composer / improvisor Ivo Neame. Caught in the Light of Day captures some of the most offbeat and intricate sounds around. Arrangements take unexpoected turns into beautiful absraction and the soloing has a business-as-usual brilliance. These seven originals are so densely packed with good stuff, fresh things unfold with every listen”. MOJO ****
Musicians:
Ivo Neame – piano
Jim Hart – vibes
Jasper Hoiby – double bass
James Maddren – drums
L – R: Jasper Hoiby, Ivo Neame, Jim Hart and James Maddren
Over the last few years Ivo Neame has recorded and performed throughout the world on piano and saxophone with diverse artists such as Matthew Herbert, Seb Rochford, F-ire collective big band, Stan Sulzmann, Tim Garland, Jim Mullen, Gerard Presencer, Mark Lockheart, Alec Dankworth, Gilad Atzmon, Henry Lowther and Julian Siegel. Now it is his turn to shine!
His new album ‘Caught In The Light of Day’ demonstrates the combined brilliance of his writing and playing. Listen to it once and you’ll be impressed. Listen twice and its gifts will begin to unfold. The quality of the writing and the performances are immediately apparent but on repeated listens you hear how the musicians foster and nurture these compositions. Neame trusts his team and lets them take the form of each track into their own hands. This record is about interplay, about letting the music breathe.
“I will just say that the band is totally smoking, the music is modern, angular, complex and stunning and the over-all impression is jaw dropping. I’m really digging this one! If you have a taste for more modern, aggressive and/or artistic approach to jazz, check “Caught in the LIght of Day” out”. BASS PLAYER MAGAZINE
“Angular lines, unexpected intervals and changes of tempo and mood, all negotiated with a deft fluidity echoed by the playing of this fine young quartet”. IRISH TIMES
“Sounds rather like a slippery, angular, latterday MJQ”. OBSERVER
A showcase for Neame’s blossoming keyboard powers. There are fast postboppers with stop-time variations, meditations turning into arrhythmic Latin grooves, bright melodic fragments dropping into preoccupied rocking vamps and then dreamy contemplation. It’s a set full of edgy and characterful themes, matched by resourceful, conversational improvising”. GUARDIAN ****
“Multi instrumentalist Ivo Neame is fast becoming one of the rising stars of British jazz. Tightly kinit, superbly played music from an increasingly mature musician and composer”. JAZZ MANN ****
“Appealing, fresh and stimulating, courtesy not only of the infectious enthusiasm and commitment of Neame’s band but also of the sheer classiness of his writing for it. Recommended”. VORTEX JAZZ REVIEWS
“Neame’s intricately engaging Caught In The Light Of Day (Edition) is an album of varied, virtuosic musicianship, from the fleet-footed bop of opener Birdbrained, through the dark romanticism of Quixotic, to the dense, angular, Monk-ish descending motifs of closer Pear Shaped”. METRO
“Caught in the Light of Day is a calling card which many listeners will be able to appreciate. Because the quality of the music is that it is not pretentiously innovative, but it’s firmly grounded in the best straight ahead-jazz tradition, and adds elements of contemporary music with discretion. The writing goes beyond traditional song form by using a patchwork quilt of influences. This allows the musicians to play with rhythmic freedom and changeable harmonic structures, allowing the musical flow to unfold smoothly or to twist nervously between sudden swerves and unexpected accelerations. ALL ABOUT JAZZ ITATIA
There’s something splendidly unhip about Neame: he plays complex, intellectual music with unashamedly extended sections of soloing and free blowing. An album of great promise”. JAZZWISE
“From the initial accelerating line that opens the title track, it’s clear that here is a band pushing hard with exacting playing and complex material”. JAZZ BREAKFAST
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Venues / Festivals played: London, Manchester, Cheltenham and Montreux Jazz Festivals, F-ire Festival at Pizza Express Dean Street, Ronnie Scott’s, the Devizes Music Festival and at many other London venues.
Recorded sessions with: Jazz on 3 (Gwilym Simcock Big Band) and In Tune (Guy Barker)
Groups played with: Jasper Hoiby’s Phronesis, Rory Simmons Quartet, Rory Simmons Fringe Magnetic, Phil Donkin Trio
Ivo Neame is also a core member of the Loop Collective and most of the aforementioned bands belong to this collective. His working group is currently a quartet featuring Jim Hart, Jasper Høiby and drumming sensation James Maddren.
L – R: Ivo Neame, Jim Hart, James Maddren and Jasper Hoiby
Read Ivo’s answers to some quick fire questions:
1. Name:
IN: Ivo Neame
2. Where were you born:
IN: Canterbury
3. What are the origins of your name:
IN: family, common in Croatia
4. Instrument:
IN: piano
5. Favourite jazz pianist:
IN: Bill Evans
6. Least favourite pianist:
IN: Jamie Cullum/Richard Clayderman/Kenny Kirkland imitators
7. Favourite Jazz composer:
IN: Billy Strayhorn/Duke Ellington
8. Favourite classical composer:
IN: Debussy or Bach
9. Favourite musician you’ve played with:
IN: probably jasper hoiby and anton eger
10. What was your best moment on performing:
IN: probably when a woman threw a glass of champagne all over me on Y2K NYE cos we were playing jazz instead of danceable music. Either that or playing at the Hollywood bowl 2006
11. Greatest moment off outside music:
IN: I think this is supposed to be a family affair isn’t it?
12. All time favourite album:
IN: Jaco Pastorius
13. Favourite Film:
IN: Citizen Kane
14. What’s your dream:
IN: To earn a living playing jazz
15. What do you do when your not playing music:
IN: think about music, then see my therapist
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