Black Top with Xhosa Cole
Black Top, the duo of multi-instrumentalist Orphy Robinson and pianist Pat Thomas, is a shape-shifting unit whose freely improvised performances combine twisted loops, samples and dub-effects, drawing on their Afro-Caribbean roots with a spontaneity and daring rooted in experimental free-jazz.
Returning to Free Range after their 2019 performance, they are joined by the gifted 24-year old saxophonist, flautist and composer, Xhosa Cole (BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2018).
? “[Black Top’s latest album, Some Good News,] vibrates with wild energy from start to finish … But what really lifts this above the average is the unit’s ability to switch seamlessly into diasporic pan-global grooves … This 21st century melting pot is brimming over with thrills.” (Jazzwise)
? Blacktop (live at Free Range 2019)
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? Xhosa Cole
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This is the third event in Free Range’s 2022 Spring Season (follow @Freerangecanterbury to hear about the Autumn Season programme).
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Photo: Blacktop, image courtesy of Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas
