Late Night Jazz: Take Five Showcase

Part of EFG London Jazz Festival, enjoy an evening of music from four musicians
from the 2024 Take Five talent development programme: Caius Williams, Claire Victoria Roberts, Helena Kay and Momoko Gill.

The Take Five initiative is aimed at British and UK based
composer-performers, and is designed to give some of the UK’s most talented
emerging creative jazz musicians the opportunity to take time out to develop
their craft, build their careers and get their music out into the world.

Take Five is an annual talent development programme for emerging
jazz and improvising musicians/composers produced by Serious, and funded by the
PRS Foundation, Help Musicians, Arts Council England, and Serious Trust.

Caius Williams is a musician working
mostly within the fields of improvised and experimental music. Working
frequently as both a collaborator and a solo artist, Caius has a duo project
with Theodora Laird (Crosspiece) alongside playing guitar(s) for Theodora’s project,
feeo, a duo with Tara Cunningham, and was recently involved in the live
performances of Lifetones: a project led by Charles Bullen’s of This Heat,
alongside frequently working with many of London’s notable improvisers.

Claire Victoria Roberts is a composer, vocalist and violinist,
blurring the boundaries of jazz, classical and folk genres. The Welsh-born
artist draws upon her diverse influences through improvised vocals, Celtic
fiddle music, and lyrical jazz and classical styles. Past performances include
Manchester jazz festival, Brecon jazz, and Begues jazz (Catalunya). Claire was
deemed a “buzzingly-bright contemporary” by Wales Arts Review thanks
to her unique fiddle tunes and interpretations of jazz and folk songs alike.

Award-winning tenor saxophonist Helena Kay is quickly becoming
renowned as one of the UK’s most creative and virtuosic jazz artists, with two
critically acclaimed albums, four UK tours, and performances at the UK’s most
esteemed jazz venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, The Vortex and the Royal Albert
Hall.

Momoko Gill (AKA MettaShiba) is a London-based multi-instrumental
composer/producer/songwriter/vocalist whose primary instruments are drumkit and
voice. She grew up between Japan, the US and UK and has a mixed
(Japanese/British/German) heritage. Momoko works with some of the most exciting
and boundary-pushing UK artists including Coby Sey, Matthew Herbert, Alabaster
DePlume, Tirzah, Wol (formerly Bellatrix), among many others.