Live jazz night with saxophonist and composer Greg Abate and the Dave Cottle Trio at The Observatory.
Greg Abate plays The Observatory in Swansea on Wednesday 18 November, backed by the Dave Cottle Trio. He's a jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer who spends a good deal of the year on the road — around 225 days a year, by his own count — touring as an international jazz and recording artist.
His career goes back a long way. In the mid-1970s, after four years at Berklee College of Music, he played lead alto for the Ray Charles Orchestra for two years. In 1978 he formed Channel One, which became a favourite in the New England area, and from 1986 to 1987 he played tenor sax with the revived Artie Shaw Orchestra under Dick Johnson. Since then he's worked as a post-hard bop soloist, playing jazz festivals and clubs across the US, Canada and abroad, including much of Europe and Moscow and Georgia in Russia.
He's recorded as well. Gratitude, with the Tim Ray Trio, got glowing reviews and international airplay, and his first CD, Live At Birdland NYC, came out in 1991 on the Candid Jazz label with James Williams, Rufus Reid and Kenny Washington. The Dave Cottle Trio will be the one backing him here in Swansea.
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The gig is on Wednesday 18 November at 8pm at The Observatory, and tickets are £12.
