Ivo Neame

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With the Never band of Zhenya Strigalev on the Inntöne Jazz Festival 2017

Ivo Michael Beale Neame (born March 13, 1981 in Kent ) is a British jazz musician ( piano and saxophone ).

Live and act

Neame comes from the English brewery family Shepherd Neame . He studied at the King's School in Canterbury and then (in the same year as the pianist Gwilym Simcock ) jazz saxophone at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His mentors were Martin Speake and Steve Buckley , as well as F-IRE Collective founder Barack Schmool. Since then Neame has worked a. a. with Guy Barker , Julian Siegel , Stan Sulzmann , Matthew Herbert , Jim Mullen and Tim Garland . With his trio he has performed at numerous jazz festivals and clubs such as the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and the Vortex Jazz Club . Since 2009 he has been a member of the Phronesis Trio (with Jasper Høiby and Anton Eger ), with whom he has released several albums and also performed with the hr big band .

Neames debut album under his own name Swirls and Eddies was released in 2007; performing musicians were Phil Donkin (bass) and George Hart (drums). Jim Hart (vibraphone), Jasper Høiby (bass) and James Maddren (drums) played on his second album Caught in the Light of Day (2009) . In 2010 Neame was involved in Jasper Hoiby's album Alive , which was nominated in 2010 by the magazines Jazzwize and Mojo as "Album of the Year". He leads his own quartet; he is also a member of the London Loop Collective . He recorded with the formations Gemini and Kairos 4tet as well as with the Andy Davies Quartet, Kaz Simmons , Dave Mannington and Brigitte Beraha .

Discographic notes

As band leader / co-leader
  • Ivo Neame Trio: Swirls and Eddies (Loop, 2007)
  • Ivo Neame Quartet: Caught in the Light of Day (Edition Records, 2009)
  • Ivo Neame Quartet: Yatra (Edition Records, 2012, with Jon Shenoy, Tori Freestone, Jason Yarde , Shabaka Hutchings , Jim Hart, Jasper Høiby, Dave Hamblett)
  • Ivo Neame Quartet: Moksha (Edition Records, 2018, with George Crowley, Tom Farmer, James Maddren)
  • Jim Hart & Ivo Neame: Multiverse (Edition Records, 2020), with Matt Calvert
As a sideman
  • Kaz Simmons: Different Smile (Fast Awake, 2007)
  • Andy Davies Quartet: Getting Giggy (Rhythm and Muse Records, 2007)
  • Kairos 4tet: Statement of Intent (Edition Records, 2011)
  • Ant Law : Zero Sum World (Whirlwind, 2015)
  • Kairos 4tet: The Body Keeps the Score (2020), with Emilia Martensson

Web links

Commons : Ivo Neame  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neame Family Tree ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Ivo Neame: Yatra (Review). In: The Jazzman. October 17, 2012, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Ivo Neame: Looking Back From Moksha. Sandy Brown Jazz, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Vortexjazz.co.uk ( Memento from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Neame, Ivo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neame, Ivo Michael Beale (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (piano and saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Kent