Orrery

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Corey Mwamba's piece, Orrery, commissioned to celebrate 30 years of Derby Jazz, connects an expansive range of ideas and local cultural heritage as well as being an exhilarating piece of creativity. [...]

This is a capacious work in sound, in which musicians become the planets moving physically through the concert space, orbiting the rhythmic presence of the Corey Mwamba's trio - the heart of the sun. Mwamba has combined the musical mysteries of Coltrane, Miles and Sun Ra to create a powerful piece of improvisation with a scholarly basis in local history as well as cosmic concerns. Jazzwise