30th October 2015: NYSQ (David Berkman, Tim Armacost, Gene Jackson, Michael Janisch) announce tour dates to include EFG London Jazz Festival show.

The New York Standards Quartet (NYSQ) will be in Europe and the UK for a short series of shows culminating with an appearance at the EFG London Jazz Festival at Pizza Express on 22nd November 2015 (tickets)

David Berkman (piano), Tim Armacost (sax) and Gene Jackson (drums) have been performing together as NYSQ since 2006 and for these forthcoming shows they will be joined by Whirlwind’s Michael Janisch (bass).

Conceptually, the NYSQ strives to develop its own language within the tradition of performing standard jazz repertoire.

The Guardian, in a glowing, four-star review of the band’s last tour across the UK, asserts that the NYSQ is “a group devoted to radical reinvention of famous pop songs and Broadway show tunes. Plenty of contemporary jazz artists do that, but few more divertingly than this vivacious foursome, who delightedly cherish the originals while brusquely deconstructing their harmonies and tweaking their melodies, sometimes only slipping in the original theme on the way out of the piece. This is a collective class act.”

Tour dates

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Nov 13:  Sheffield Jazz

Nov 16th – 17th – Lemmens Institute, Leuven

Nov 18th Jazz Podium De Werf

Nov 19: Cambridge Jazz

Nov 20: Hull Jazz Festival, University of Hall

Nov 22: EFG London Jazz Festival, Pizza Express