The Jim Mullen Quartet

About

An evening of jazz and funk live on stage

Jim Mullen’s career brought him from Glasgow to London back in 1969. The Jim Mullen Quartet is at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts on Friday 17 May at 8pm. Tickets are £16.

Jim is one of the most soulful and subtly virtuosic players the UK has ever produced. He has recorded and toured with the very best, also carving his own place in jazz-funk history as a founding member of the Morrissey-Mullen Band and The Average White Band.

As a key player and soloist for five decades, Mullen has become an institution in the British Jazz scene. He has literally played with ‘everybody’ from organist Jimmy Smith to vocalist Clare Martin.

He is joined by Alex Hutton (piano), Jez Brown (bass) and David Ingamells (drums).

Alex Hutton is an established pianist on the London Jazz scene. Over the past 10 years, he has worked with most of the leading figures (such as Jim Mullen, Pete King and more). He began playing piano at the age of 5. After completing a BA Hons degree in American studies, he turned his focus fully to jazz piano. He won the appraisal of the late Ronnie Scott.

Jez Brown graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1994. He went on to work in Peter King’s Quartet and pianist Julian Joseph’s trio. Since then, Jeremy has become much in demand in the UK and Europe as a backing musician for soloists such as Charles McPherson and Curtis Stigers. He works as the regular member of many groups including Blue Note Artist Stacey Kent and the BBC Big Band.

David Ingamells has established himself as one of the most versatile jazz drummers of his generation. He performs regularly at all the major jazz clubs and venues in the UK such as Ronnie Scott’s and concert halls such as the Royal Albert Hall. He has toured in Mumbai, India, Ireland and Scotland and has performed around Europe.

Norden Farm welcomes Jim. Listen out for his ever developing melodic improvisation that has a momentum of its own, and his entertaining knack of effortless weaving into his playing musical quotes from other songs and genres.