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About J Frisco

J Frisco are an award-winning avant-garde jazz trio (Jazz North Introduces 2017) featuring soprano saxophone, electric guitar, keyboards and vocals; they create improvised genre-fluid soundscapes and noise drawn from emotion, political, and gender issues. They thrive on challenging both their own and their audiences perceptions of time, space and sound. Performance highlights include a headline show at Vortex Jazz Club, Sofar Sounds, The Cockpit: Jazz in the Round and many UK jazz festivals including Gateshead International Jazz Festival, Lancaster Jazz Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival and have supported acts including Courtney Pine, Portico Quartet, Laura Jurd, Roller Trio, Matthew Bourne, and Elliott Galvin. They have recently released their debut album ‘naked’ available on all streaming platforms and in the new year are set to support Dinosaur.

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J's Skills

Live
  • Audio Tech
  • Lighting Director
  • Touring Musician
Songwriting
  • Co-Writer

J's Genres

  • Electronic
  • Experimental
  • Jazz
  • Minimalism

J's Experience

Lara Jones, the saxophonist, currently also works at Leeds College of Music as an audio and lighting technician which she has done for several years. As J Frisco we have toured the UK, as well as with other projects; Jemma Freese, the keyboardist, has toured with her other projects JOULE in the Netherlands and freese trio in the UK; Lara Jones has toured with her other projects NCC and Beyond Albedo in the UK. In J Frisco the music is written and improvised together equally, Jemma also writes for freese trio, JOULE, DOMI and Eva Eik, Lara writes for NCC and Beyond Albedo and Megan, the guitarist, wrote for Pillar Digits. With all these different projects each member of J Frisco have recorded material in studios for each of their projects, and Lara has been a session saxophonist multiple times.