The New York based pianist Borah Bergman has been widely acclaimed for his astonishing technique and musical intelligence.

"Bergman has perhaps the most comprehensive technique of any jazz musician on any instrument. His facility is nonpareil with both hands. Bergman can improvise spontaneous free counterpoint at unfathomable speeds and with remarkable precision. His utterly personal style is due in no small part to his own technical innovations; no pianist in the history of jazz has ever developed more speed and agility in his left hand. Additionally, Bergman has refined a technique of playing with crossed hands that augments his fluency to an even greater degree. Bergman's greatest attributes are, however, the staggering quality and quantity of his ideas, and the ineffable intensity with which he executes those ideas. Bergman is of a kind with the very greatest jazz musicians in terms of originality and inspiration" (www.allmusic.com)

For this concert - his only UK date - Bergman will be paying will be playing a brand new Steinway 9' concert grand piano. He will be joined by two eminent British improvisers, the saxophonist Lol Coxhill ("a vastly talented soprano specialist with an utterly individual tone; it ranges from aching sweetness to hard-edged multiphonics"-- Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 2002) and Paul Hession ("a drummer of subtlety and power"-- Guardian, 2003). The opportunity to see three musicians of this calibre engaged in spontaneous, unfettered and collective improvisation is surely one to relish.