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The jazz trio Love Square will perform at the Leigh Sawmill Café on March 24 and although regular Sawmill patrons may not be familiar with the name, they will recognise the musicians.
On tenor sax will be Nick Atkinson, of Hopetoun Brown fame, who have played at the Sawmill many times over the years, along with Finn Scholes on electric piano and drummer Alistair Deverick.
Scholes has been playing trumpet and jazz keyboard professionally round Auckland and overseas for the past 10 years, and is the leader of the well-known Auckland-based band Carnivorous Plant Society.
Deverick is also a member of the Carnivorous Plant Society, as well as being a composer and musical director.
Atkinson says that with the Guinness boys back at the helm of the Sawmill, it feels like the beginning of a new era of ground-breaking sounds.
“Finn has a new Nord 6 electric piano from which he coaxes a planetary whirlwind of sound and Alistair has refined his inventive and passionate beat making it into a high art-form,” Atkinson says. “It’s a great privilege to play and improvise with Finn and Al. They’re like hot air in your balloon and it feels like you can clear any obstacle when they ignite their burners.
“We’ve got baritone saxophones, drummers playing trombones, bags full of percussion, trumpets and heaven knows what else as we navigate a spiralling line across the world, taking in Jamaica, Ethiopia and the highlands of the Bolivian Andes.”
The Love Square show is on Sunday, March 24, starting at 4.30pm. It is a family-friendly gig with kids 13 and under free.
“It feels so good to be coming back to our favourite place to play. The venue is like the fourth member of the band!”
