Soweto Kinch is best known, of course, for his brilliant musicianship. He’s a major player on both the British jazz and hip-hop scenes, so this latest venture constitutes a significant creative departure for the award-winning alto-saxophonist. Inspired by The Seven Deadly Sins and Dante’s Inferno, The Legend Of Mike Smith is a staged performance of Kinch’s latest album, bringing together jazz improvisation, a driving hip-hop score, choreography from Jonzi D, animated visuals and dance. At the centre of its story is the young, aspiring MC of the title, a man who finds himself caught up in a fast and furious world of temptation, a place where the boundaries of reality and fantasy frequently come into dramatic collision with one another...
The Legend of Mike Smith shows at Birmingham Repertory Theatre from Thurs 12 to Sat 28 September. We've joined with The Rep to offer What's On Live readers the chance to win one of three pairs of tickets to see The Legend of Mike Smith on Tues 17 September
Closing date for entries: 06 September 2013
Please answer the question below...
Which jazz saxophonist is often referred to as 'the trane'
Soweto Kinch is best known, of course, for his brilliant musicianship. He’s a major player on both the British jazz and hip-hop scenes, so this latest venture constitutes a significant creative departure for the award-winning alto-saxophonist. Inspired by The Seven Deadly Sins and Dante’s Inferno, The Legend Of Mike Smith is a staged performance of Kinch’s latest album, bringing together jazz improvisation, a driving hip-hop score, choreography from Jonzi D, animated visuals and dance. At the centre of its story is the young, aspiring MC of the title, a man who finds himself caught up in a fast and furious world of temptation, a place where the boundaries of reality and fantasy frequently come into dramatic collision with one another...
The Legend of Mike Smith shows at Birmingham Repertory Theatre from Thurs 12 to Sat 28 September. We've joined with The Rep to offer What's On Live readers the chance to win one of three pairs of tickets to see The Legend of Mike Smith on Tues 17 September
Closing date for entries: 06 September 2013
Please answer the question below...
Which jazz saxophonist is often referred to as 'the trane'
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