LayLow presents: GLASSHOPPER

Welcome to LayLow, brand new night for jazz and more at @therumshack.

Take your shoes off, stretch your legs out on the cosy floor sitting and immerse yourself in music!

Genre provoking trio Glasshopper, is an exciting group born out of a love for melody and improvisation. Led by its saxophonist Jonathan Chung, the trio brings together the creative minds of guitarist James Kitchman and drummer Corrie Dick. 

This unit of focused players explore melody and improvisation with complete reverence and abandon, intricately weaving together moments of sonic bliss and euphoric rock-outs. Always aspiring to search for fresh interpretations, the bass-less line up blurs the lines between the jazz, folk and rock realms. Seldom settling, always searching.

They released their debut album "Fortune Rules" with Norwegian label AMP Records & Music during the 2020 pandemic to critical praise and have steadily made their statement in the UK jazz scene. Their next offering is due to be release early 2024, expected to subvert expectations of their original sound that drew inspirations from Paul Motian into something that punches in the gut.

'I saw the trio play at the London Jazz Festival last year and was absolutely mesmerised. ’- Jazz Nights on BBC Radio Scotland

'Wonderful music... three musical voices with great gravity with guests making music which is at once heavy as hell and soaring weightless' - Good Evening Arts.

Combining acoustic and electronic elements with the human voice and drawing on the world of literature for inspiration the trio have developed a sound and aesthetic that is very much their own’ ★★★★ - The Jazzmann

This is an album that could form the lyrical soundtrack for a beautiful film and the sense of groundedness, collaborative questing and restrained emotional intensity makes one curious as to where Chung and the Glasshopper crew’s travels might take them in future.’ - Scottish Jazz Space

Doors: 8.00 pm
Curfew: 11.30 pm

student: £6
standard: £9
door: £13