Thursday 12 Jul 2007

19.00-21.00, Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X8PH
Admission is free. For reservations, please call 020 7752 0134 or e-mail office@icr-london.co.uk
Composer and saxophone player Eddie Neumann teams up with Spike Wells on drums, Terry Seabrook on piano, Dave Whitford on bass and Quentin Collins on trumpet for a modern jazz concert rooted in Romanian folk music.

Eddie Neumann was born in communist Romania at a time when jazz was almost banned. He first came into contact with jazz when Dave Brubeck came to Moscow in 1987. 11 years later he recorded the first live jazz CD ever to be published in Romania (Changes, 1998) along with the Jazz Unit band. The resulting sexted received the Jazz Album of the Year award from the Romanian Union of Composers in 2000 for their album From Now On. Eddie now lives in West London and plays jazz, klezmer and world music with several bands and produces his own electronic music called Electric Vulcans.

Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute
More details on www.icr-london.co.uk.