Mark Guiliana has gained an impressive reputation as a drummer who knows his way around hard bop as well as new beats from hip-hop and electronic dance music. he played an important part in the making of David Bowie’s album Blackstar and he formed the electro/jazz duo Mehliana with Brad Mehldau. The American drummer paid his dues in the band of celebrated double bassist Avishai Cohen. Now he will present original compositions in his Mark Guiliana Quartet.

‘What happens when you add hard bop drum masters Elvin Jones and Art Blakey to a 1980s Roland 808 drum machine, divide the result by J Dilla and then multiply to the power of Squarepusher? Answer: Mark Guiliana’ (Time Out London).

‘Mark is expanding what is possible with the drum set. He’s taking influences from electronically generated and looped music, and putting it back in an acoustic, real-time setting… it’s very liberating and opens up a new dialogue between electronic music and improvised music’ (Brad Mehldau in Downbeat).

Mark Guiliana drums/composition, Jason Rigby saxophone, Fabian Almazan piano, Chris Morrissey bass