Seed Ensemble

Seed Ensemble

Where: Turner Sims
Salisbury Road
SO17 1BJ
Southampton
United Kingdom
When: 
04 April 2020 - 20:00 to 22:00
Price: 
15.00£
Theon Cross (tuba), Sheila-Maurice Grey (trumpeter), Shirley Tetteh (guitar)

SEED Ensemble is a Mercury Award-nominated ten piece band led by alto saxophonist and composer Cassie Kinoshi.

The band presents a stellar line-up featuring some of London’s most up-and-coming young jazz musicians including tuba player Theon Cross (Sons of Kemet), trumpeter Sheila-Maurice-Grey (Kokoroko) and guitarist Shirley Tetteh (Maisha). Combining jazz with inner-city London, West African and Caribbean influenced groove, SEED explores a blend of genres through original compositions and improvisation. Their debut release Driftglass (Jazz Re:freshed, 2019) features the track Afronaut (feat. XANA) which won the Ivors Academy Award 2018 (formerly known as BASCA, British Composer Award) for Jazz Composition for Large Ensemble.