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GIG-4 Reprise @ The Players Theatre
Tony Kofi on Alto Saxophone
 
with the Luis D'Agostino Trio
Luis on Guitar
Raph Mizraki on Bass
Charlie Stratford on Drums.
Was held on Wed 12th October 2005
with an audience of 72
TONY KOFI
Saxophonist (alto,
baritone, and soprano) Flautist, Composer, Teacher, and Author.
His highly acclaimed TK Quartet
"THE MONK LIBERATION FRONT" with the addition of Orphy Robinson on marimba vibes. Currently the TK Quartet's Album "All is Now" has
been selected as:-
Winner, 2005 BBC Jazz Line-Up Album of
the Year
 Born in
Nottingham to West African parents. A self-taught musician, he came to London in
the early '90s. Tony has worked with the David Murray Big Band, Gary Crosby's Nu
Troop, the Jazz Warriors, Eddie Henderson, Manu Dibango, Dr Lonnie Smith,
Branford Marsalis, Billy Higgins and US-3 and the Roy Ayers Big Band. He
is currently a member of Andrew Hill's American-Anglo Big Band, the Julian
Joseph Big Band, Byron Wallen's
Indigo, Tim Richards' Great Spirit,
Grand Union Orchestra, the African All-Stars and Claude Deppa's AJE.
He has studied with Billy Pierce and Donald Byrd.
Tony Kofi
Quartet - Best Ensemble, 2005 Parliamentary Jazz Awards
"Tony
Kofi - Jazz Saxophonist
-One of the UK's most exciting performers.
-The
Musician, Leicester
Listen to Tony on Real Audio Format playing
Along Came Betty- by Benny Golson
Tony Kofi Quartet, recorded at The Falcon,
Clapham, 1996.
With Gary Crosby's Nu Troop
 Tony Kofi
gave an ebullient performance throughout the evening on Alto only - (he came by
Oxford Tube sensible boy) and despite only brief rehearsal of his intended repertoire with Luis, Raph and Charlie.
He gave a blistering performance on up tempo numbers and was extremely sensitive in his
ballad renditions. As the evening progressed he settled into the group and
his command grew as did his appreciation of the attentive audience and the
acoustics at The Players Theatre.
Picture by Peter Hutchinson©
Tony in Full Flight Taken on Stage @ The
Players Theatre
The
sets were as follows:-
I've never been in Love before - Frank Loesser - from Guys and
Dolls
I Love You - great inventive output.
Central Park West
- John Coltrane Ballad first recorded on 'Coltrane's Sound' Album on
Atlantic Records
Live Sample mp3
Along Came Betty - From
Benny Golson Riff like reminiscent of Killer
Joe
Uncle Bubba - Altoist Gary Bartz composition - sample of his original
click here
The second set kicked off with -
By Myself - a phenomenal display of pace, technique and structured solo
work
Soul Eyes - Max Waldron's - Latin groove
Hi - Fly - Randy (6'- 8") Weston - very lyrical delivery.
Played Twice - Thelonious Sphere Monk tune delivered with panache and
precision. mp3 Sample 626Kb -
Solo - Live Sample mp3
I Remember April -
- now was that a girl or a month
 Eddie
the Editor
- thank you Mr Kofi
- Please come back!
-
is all the audience wrote.
mailto:info@tonykofi.com
Tony Plays:-
Buescher Soprano
Selmer Mark 6 Alto
King Super 20 Alto
Conn Crossbar Baritone
Tony Kofi
Website you’ll find a new update called
VISIONS
in the Gallery section. Visions is mostly about photos taken from Tony's point
of view of the musicians he had great pleasure of working with over
the past decade and a half, or was just fortunate to be around at the
opportune time. It’s about capturing a certain moment in rehearsal,
performances or just relaxing before a concert. Tony has been taking photographs
from the age of 14 years old, which is longer than the time spent as a
professional musician. To him, musicians are very unique individuals, and as
a musician himself, he likes to capture them before the important world stage
performance that takes place in front of the audience, and having first hand
insight of this, he finds that most musicians show the first signs of finding
their inner space at this point in order to perform at their highest levels,
They might have a serious or humorous side to them, but these are the real
life musicians who take and love their art very seriously and
unconditionally, and it’s that side of musicians that inspires him to
immortalise art into still life. So
VISIONS
is the first of many images you’ll see in the next few
days, weeks, months and years to come of musicians present and future.
(Written
by Tony Kofi)
Luis D'Agostino Trio - for
profile details see GIG-1 Reprise
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