Naissance - Oh Come Emmanuel!

Naissance is the new project from the duo of Britain’s leading jazz/classical musicians Jon Lloyd (saxophone) and John Law (piano). The music spans classical, jazz, ambient and subtle textural samples and will engage audiences with different tastes. Both are musicians and composers with more that 50 recordings to their names and performance credits demonstrating long associations with many of the leading players in the British contemporary music and jazz field – Tim Garland, Jason Rebello, Evan Parker, Barry Guy and the London Sinfonietta.

Their most recent project, which was performed live in Cornwall, was the ambient work, ‘Renaissance’ – an improvised work using looping derived from sacred vocal texts with live visuals designed by Patrick Dunn (of Tangerine Dream fame) and performed in Truro Cathedral in 2023. This new project, ‘Naissance’, will also use the warm and vibrant ambience of visually stunning and reverberant church spaces but on a much more intimate level, taking place in the tranquil, waterside church of St Mylor, on a creek of the River Fal. The church dates back as a place of worship to 411 A.D and is a highly evocative mystical space.

This performance of Naissance takes place appropriately just before Christmas, on Saturday,   13 December at 7:30. It will feature a new composition based on the wonderful ancient Advent hymn, ‘Veni, veni Emmanuel’ (Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel) and everyone is invited to come and immerse themselves in music that is both contemplative and inspiring.

Reviews for Naissance:

‘Music of contemplation and renewal.’ London Jazz News

‘Thank you for creating this utterly moving coming together of beauty!’ Audience member

Reviews for Jon Lloyd:

‘A saxophone delivery as persuasive as a speaking voice.’ Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD

‘…creating music of often startling beauty.’ Jazzwise Magazine

‘The only music you want to hear’ London Jazz News

Reviews for John Law:

‘Combining the vocabularies of classical and jazz in a singular and seamless way, coalescing improvisational surprise and a deep elegiac musicality.’ All About Jazz

‘As well as being a formidable thematic improviser, whose phrasing constantly opens up new twists, Law writes beautiful romantic ballads’ The Guardian

‘One of the UK’s most imaginative and versatile jazz pianists.’ International Piano Magazine.