Nick Ramm Ensemble
Nick Ramm Ensemble at The Vortex Jazz Club, London
Friday 19 June 2026
About the show
Nick Ramm Ensemble is proud to present fresh compositions drawing from Ramm's roots in souful piano and contemporary jazz.
This all-acoustic line-up of piano, double bass and drum kit is augmented by two horns – tenor saxophone and trumpet. In much of the writing you will hear the horns playing together like, for example, in the Miles Davis bands of the fifties and sixties. Aside from modern jazz roots, stylistically, the material draws from a wide palette of influences: Brazilian, Cuban, Ghanaian music, contemporary funky flavours, minimal and abstract moments.
Many of the main themes are written in the minor key but balanced by another section with brighter tonalities. The fast paced hard bop number 'Payroll', the laid back high-life groove of 'Song For My Father' and the slow cycles of 'Little White Petals' are three contrasting examples from the set.
Featuring
Nick Ramm
Ramm studied at Blackheath Conservatoire, Keele University and at the Guildhall School Of Music and Drama. He has worked with some of the world's most highly regarded musicians and has toured USA, Europe and Australia.
He has performed with Sir Tom Jones, Jack Bruce with the BBC Big Band, The Cinematic Orchestra, Seb Rochford and Matthew Herbert. Needless to say, Ramm can play piano.
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Pete Wareham
Saxophonist and former Young Jazz Musician of the Year finalist. Pete formed Acoustic Ladyland in 2001 and is a member of Seb Rochford's Polar Bear.
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Byron Wallen
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Tom Herbert
Corrie Dick
Corrie’s prowess as a unique, emotionally sophisticated composer has been paramount to his diverse original/co-lead projects including power-jazz quartet Blue-Eyed Hawk and songwriter-influenced Little Lions, but here his uninhibited style has flourished to new levels.
Corrie has penned a rich diversity of contemporary folk melodies reminiscent of Celtic traditions and at times North African music and arranged them in a perfectly flowing series of modern-day anthems.
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