Live recording from Aug 30 concert in St Stephen’s Church Bristol, part of BEJE Siblings Not Fools tour. Reunion was composed by Yunmi on the plane over from South Korea, so freshly minted. We were delighted to be reunited after our aborted UK tour in 2020, cancelled due to the pandemic. We’re looking for tours in South Korea, UK or Europe in 2025 or 2026. David Mowat trumpet, Paolo Adamo drums, Federico Leonori double bass, Yunmi Kang piano and vocals, Sangyeon Park guitar.
Faris Ishaq is quite simply the unique master of the contemporary jazz ney. The ney is an ancient flute originally from Egypt and ubiquitous in Arabic cultures. Faris took it to Berklee for his World Jazz Masters and blew Dave Liebmann away. Faris and I met in 2018 in Occupied Palestine when I toured a British Council-sponsored musical show about the consequences of Balfour’s impossible promise to both Zionist Jews and the indigenous Palestinians, a promise broken. Under Faris’s leadership BEJE play a unique set with both his and my compositions, grooving poignant and lyrical, though I say it myself.
Nov 29th Redbrick Building 8.00pm https://redbrickbuilding.co.uk/event/faris-ishaq-x-beje/
Nov 30th The Old School Room Curry Rivel 7.30pm https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/beje
Dec 1st 5pm St George’s Bristol TICKETS and descriptor https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/faris-ishaq-x-beje-siblings-not-fools-tour-performance/
The Bristol European Jazz Ensemble 