Sloth Racket

Sloth Racket

Sloth Racket was formed for a Jazz North East gig at Gateshead Jazz Festival 2015 by saxophonist Cath Roberts, bringing together some of the UK’s finest improvisers from Manchester, Macclesfield and London. The music takes as its starting point a set of pieces written especially for that festival, combining regular musical notation with some graphic scoring. These provide broad frameworks for the band to navigate together, balancing freedom and structure. So far the results have ranged through many sound worlds including free jazz explorations, extremely heavy grooves, spiky duo sparring and minimal improv textures. Line-up: Sam Andreae – tenor sax, Cath Roberts – baritone sax, Anton Hunter – guitar, Seth Bennett – bass, Johnny Hunter – drums

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