Martin Pyne works primarily in the areas of jazz and improvised music playing drums, percussion and vibraphone. He has performed and recorded with many artists, including Stan Sulzmann, Alex Maguire, and Josephine Davies, and with Martin Archer and Charlotte Keeffe, is a member of Hi Res Heart. He also works extensively with contemporary dance and has an ongoing collaboration with leading Silent Film pianist Stephen Horne, that has taken to the USA, across Europe, and to major UK venues such as The Barbican. In 2020 his solo album Spirits Of Absent Dancers was named by critic Richard Williams in The Guardian as one of the best albums of the year.

Line Up: David Beebee – piano, Marianne Windham – bass & Martin Pyne – drums

“In terms of percussion improvisation, try to imagine something that runs from the Zen sound-painting of Frank Perry to the light swing of Billy Higgins. There’s nothing loud, nothing showy, nothing esoteric. Just a delight in the deft touch of a stick, a mallet, a finger or a wire brush on metal, skin or wood, and in the process of transforming sound into a sense of movement.”  Richard Williams