Cedric Hanriot and Jason Palmer's 'city of Poets' with Donny Mccaslin at PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho

French pianist and composer Cedric Hanriot (Dianne Reeves, John Patitucci) joins forces with American trumpeter Jason Palmer (Herbie Hancock, Ravi Coltrane) featuring an incredible, all-star cast of musicians in multi-Grammy award nominated saxophonist Donny McCaslin, first call UK-based American bassist Michael Janisch (Joe Lovano, Gary Burton) and Grammy Award winning drummer Clarence Penn (Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Maria Schneider) in a musical homage to the work of science fiction writer Dan Simmons.

Hanriot and Palmer have composed a suite of three movements using seven distinct melodies based on the famed "7 modes of limited transportation" created by influential French composer Olivier Messiaen to translate Simon's stories into original and improvisational music...

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French pianist and composer Cedric Hanriot (Dianne Reeves, John Patitucci) joins forces with American trumpeter Jason Palmer (Herbie Hancock, Ravi Coltrane) featuring an incredible, all-star cast of musicians in multi-Grammy award nominated saxophonist Donny McCaslin, first call UK-based American bassist Michael Janisch (Joe Lovano, Gary Burton) and Grammy Award winning drummer Clarence Penn (Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Maria Schneider) in a musical homage to the work of science fiction writer Dan Simmons.

Hanriot and Palmer have composed a suite of three movements using seven distinct melodies based on the famed "7 modes of limited transportation" created by influential French composer Olivier Messiaen to translate Simon's stories into original and improvisational music. This project made possible by a major grant from the French-American Jazz Exchange Project in association with the French-American Cultural Exchange and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. This will be the band's only UK show on an extensive US/French tour.

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