This year’s Meltdown Festival, curated by Jazz supremo Ornette Coleman, has announced another set of impressive performers. Antony Hegarty, from Antony and the Johnsons, will be joining Sean Lennon and Cornelious in Yoko Ono’s conceptual rock band Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band in the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 14 June.
On Friday 19 June, Ornette will be joined by guitar virtuoso Bill Frisell whilst Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea demonstrates his love for the avant-garde legend by flying in from Los Angeles to guest on Ornette Colemans’s second show on Sunday 21 June.
Support for Moby is provided by Oren Marshall, a pioneering player of acoustic and electric tuba who has collaborated with the likes of Derek Bailey, Moondog and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 91 year-old sax legend Andy Hamilton supports The Roots on Saturday 13 June and Soap & Skin has just been confirmed as the support act for the Patti Smith night on Thursday 18 June.
To help celebrate this year’s Meltdown, the Southbank Centre have given us a pair of Coleman’s legendary album’s The Shape of Jazz to Come and This is Our Music. Jazz isn’t necessarily our main area but these are albums anyone interested in Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Patti Smith and Yo La Tengo should listen to as they’ve been a huge influence.
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If I wasn’t so broke I would be all over these shows like a bad rash…..
I think I would probably want to see all of them, although the patti smith/silvermt zion will take some beating i would imagine. And the shape of Jazz to some is well worth a listen….especially if you get the record for free