Band Line Up: Alcyona Mick (Piano), Calum Gourlay (Bass), Paul Clarvis (Drums)

Alcyona Mick is a London based pianist and composer, nominated for a Parliamentary Jazz instrumentalist award in 2023. She has performed internationally working with a wide array of artists and bands including a co-lead duo with saxophonist Tori Freestone, the London Jazz Orchestra, Natacha Atlas, Brigitte Beraha Lucid dreamers, Josephine Davies’ Satori, Perfect Stranger, Casimir Connection, Randolph Matthews, Zeroclassikal and many others.

She recently featured on an album of improvisations – ‘Convergence & Variations’ with cellist Kate Shortt. As a composer she has worked in the commercial field writing music for documentary, short film and TV and also performed live to silent film and a music TV series in Istanbul. She won an award for best soundtrack at the Anima Mundi International festival, Brazil. Alcyona Mick is an unusual powerhouse of a talent’ – MOJO

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Calum Gourlay – Jazz Bass Calum Gourlay was born in Glasgow and grew up playing in Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra, The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland and Tommy Smith’s Youth Jazz Orchestra, in which he was the very first bassist selected from across Scotland aged 16. In 2004 he was the only bassist enrolled for the jazz course at The Royal Academy of Music. He graduated with first class honours in 2008. He has held the acoustic bass chair with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Tommy Smith, since 2006. He has also featured prominently with Tommy Smith’s own quartet. Since 2018 Calum has been a professor of Jazz Bass at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.

His debut album ‘Live at The Ridgeway’ (2015) received rave reviews from the UK jazz press, not least because of its confident format – a solo, live recording in front of an intimate audience. In 2019 Calum released his first quartet album ‘New Ears’ on Ubuntu records. In 2020 the album was nominated for both a Scottish Jazz Award and an Ivor Novello Composer

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‘It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that accomplished percussionist Paul Clarvis has performed with everyone you know and on everything you love. Clarvis was the late Leonard Bernstein’s preferred London percussionist and helped Rick Smith with the drum arrangement for the London Olympics 2012 show-stopping opening, as well as having worked with high-profile musicians like Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, and Elton John.

His film slate is just as impressive, including memorable films like “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “Twilight,” “Skyfall,” “Tron,” “Shrek,” and “The Hobbit.” Beyond his ongoing and in-demand work as a session musician, Clarvis is also an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music

Karamel – 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ. The Karamel vegan kitchen will be serving food until 9.30pm. Email karamel8775@gmail.com to book a table for groups of 3+.

Doors open 7pm. Music starts at 8pm.