Mick Beck / Dominic Lash / Paul Hession

Jazz North East Presents…

Sunday 8th December 2024
Mick Beck / Dominic Lash / Paul Hession 
The Globe 
Doors 7.30pm (Music Starts 8.00pm)

Beck / Lash / Hession 

Mick Beck (Tenor Sax, Bassoon and Whistles) 
Dominic Lash (Double Bass and Guitar)?Paul Hession (Drums and Percussion)  

Imaginative free jazz meets abstract sound images and the occasional classical twist. This trio has played since just before covid and generates tingle factors for many. A combination of beauty, beast, and the extreme. 

Beck’s whimsical and intense playing has been a force in UK free music since the 1980s, first through his improvising big band Feet Packets. In the 1990s his trio “Something Else” with Paul Hession and Simon Fell produced many outstanding performances in the UK and Europe. In the noughties he took up the bassoon (heralded as Europe’s leading improv bassoonist), formed another improvising big band “Gated Community”; and since 2010 has led two longstanding and contrasting trios “Beck Hunters” with Johnny and Anton Hunter and “Weavels” with Alex Ward and Chris Cundy. His venue “Over The Top” was a haven for national and international touring free music bands from 1995 till Covid, and was the backbone for the improv music scene in Sheffield. 

Dominic Lash is a double bassist and guitarist. He concentrates on improvised and experimental music, performing regularly with musicians such as John Butcher, Angharad Davies, N.O. Moore, and Mark Sanders. He also performed with the late Tony Conrad and Steve Reid, has had solo double bass pieces written for him by composers including Jürg Frey and Éliane Radigue, and has worked with bands and ensembles including Apartment House, Modern Nature, and the Bozzini Quartet. 

Paul Hession was born in Leeds in 1956. He took up drumming at the age of 15 and since then has played and broadcast in many European & Scandinavian countries as well as Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, USA & Canada. He has played with many of the major figures on the free music scene, such as: Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Sunny Murray, Marshall Allen, Frode Gjerstad, Peter Kowald, Joe McPhee, Borah Bergman, Otomo Yoshihide & his old friends Alan Wilkinson, Simon Fell, Hans Peter Hiby and Mick Beck. Collaborators from a different scene are Squarepusher and dj/producer Paul Woolford. He is known to relish the interaction of collective music-making, but also responds to the challenge of solo performance. In 2018 Hession was awarded a doctorate from the University of Leeds for research into augmenting percussion with analogue and digital electronics. 

Beck / Lash / Hession appear on the back of Hi Res Heart as part of two improvisational events scheduled by Jazz North East upstairs at The Globe featuring artists from the Sheffield based Discus Music label, the most celebrated recording home for improvisational music in the North.

www.discus-music.org


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VENUE ADDRESS

The Globe, 
11 Railway Street, 
NE4 7AD 
www.theglobenewcastle.bar 


AGE RESTRICTIONS / ACCESSIBILITY / TRAVEL

Age Restrictions: All ages welcome with under 18’s accompanied by an adult. 

Accessibility: Fully accessible for wheelchair users. 

Travel: Central Station Metro is located just under half a mile from the venue (approximately 8 minutes walk) 

Buses: 12 / 12A / 22 / 22X to Scotswood Road

Limited street parking outside of the venue, a small fee based car park is located across the road. 


Please do contact the venue for full details regarding younger ages and for any further queries regarding accessibility and parking.

We encourage ecologically sustainable travel wherever possible by foot, bike and public transport.