A double bill in which both bands bring together elements of folk music and free jazz.

‘Ayler in Sweden’ imagines a world in which free jazz pioneer Albert Ayler, after beginning his recording career in Sweden in 1962, remained in Scandinavia, instead of moving back to the US, and incorporated Nordic traditional music into his playing, fusing the ecstatic melodies and asymmetrical rhythms of Swedish folk music with visceral and explosive free jazz.

Newcastle-based violinist Richard Scott has spent the last 12 years immersed in the rarely-overlapping worlds of free improvisation and Scandinavian folk music. He has performed and recorded with Angharad Davies, Hannah Marshall, Mark Sanders, Rachel Musson, Phil Durrant, Jorge Boehringer, Xhosa Cole and many others, and has played and run workshops at folk festivals and events across the UK, Denmark and Sweden. Joining him for this project's second performance (following its debut at Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in September last year) are award-winning Swiss saxophonist Tapiwa Svosve, Cardiff-based tenor player and instrument builder Joe Wright, fellow Tyneside legend John Pope on bass, and the brilliant Leeds-based Norwegian drummer Emil Karlsen.

in//motion blends contemporary jazz with folk and post-rock influences, as well as drawing inspiration from the likes of John Coltrane, the Brian Blade Fellowship band, Radiohead and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Leader Luke Chakrabarti (alto sax) has been performing regularly with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and his in//motion group will feature Dan Kemshell on guitar, Matt Holmes on drums and a bass player tbc.

This concert will last approximately 2 hours.