Bracknell Jazz: Lucky Teeth

Geoff Simkins and Liam Noble

Two masters of jazz improvisation, the legendary alto saxophonist Geoff Simkins and the highly original pianist Liam Noble play a mixture of standards, originals and traditional tunes. Their recently released and critically acclaimed duo album “Lucky Teeth” takes its name (though not much else) from the feat of a music hall artist who in 1896 successfully impaled a turnip dropped 270 feet from Clifton Bridge onto a fork held between his teeth in front of an audience of 5000. Simkins and Noble will execute equally astonishing musical feats improvising on turnarounds and rootless voicings, rather than impaling turnips and other root vegetables.