TUESDAY 22 | He’s tinkled the ivories for former US President Bill Clinton; performed in the home of Quincy Jones and shared the stage with King Crimson drummer Ian Wallace. Tonight, Scandinavian master pianist Mathias Aspelin – a University of Oxford philosopher with a taste for metaphysics and aesthetics – performs a collection of modern jazz pieces, ‘merging an American soundscape with the Eastern and the Nordic; urban, rhythmic momentum meeting the tranquil and the lyrical’.
WHO: Mathias Aspelin (piano)
WHAT: Modern jazz
WHERE: Doors, St. 84 & 47
WHEN: 8:30pm July 22
WHY: “Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” – Tom Lehrer