It's always 9.30 in Zog, by Dave O'Higgins Quartet

It's always 9.30 in Zog

by Dave O'Higgins Quartet

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1.	It's Always 9.30 in Zog 05:23	buy track
2.	The Adventures of Little Peepsie 04:54	buy track
3.	Alien with Extraordinary Ability 05:00	buy track
4.	Nothing to Lose 05:12	buy track
5.	Brixton 08:12	buy track
6.	Timelessness 05:04	buy track
7.	Morpheus 05:21	buy track
8.	One for Big G 05:49	buy track
9.	New Resolution 05:14	buy track
10.	Humble Origins 04:45	buy track
11.	Autumn Serenade 06:12	buy track
12.	Easy Living 05:54	buy track

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Dave O'Higgins - saxophone
Geoff Gascoyne - bass
Graham Harvey - piano
Sebastiaan de Krom - drums

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released September 8, 2017

It’s always 9.30 in Zog is O’Higgins’ nineteenth album as leader and features eight original compositions, legendary South African Bheki Mseleku’s ‘Timelessness’, ‘Brixton’ written specially for O’Higgins by Brazilian accordion virtuoso, Chico Chagas, and two standards.

“The title track is a blues fusing influences of Jerry Bergonzi and Walt Weiskopf (the triad pairs in the intro melody), the avant garde (the rising chaos ending the intro), the extreme dynamics of Art Blakey, and hard bop,” says O’Higgins. “What does the album title It’s Always 9:30 in Zog mean? Here are 2 fanciful answers: 1. It’s an allegorical title that refers to an alien’s perception of the daft carry on that is human life; 2. Refers to those moments you feel as if you come from another place. Zog is a planet located in a black hole in the space time continuum where everyone breathes water and it's always 9:30.”

Reviews

"The title track, with its sly and sidelong cool-bop theme and walking bassline, could have come straight off a 1960s Blue Note session, as could O’Higgins’ masterful tenor solo of hard-accented runs and warbling blues wails."
The Guardian

"A foursome of familiars... happiest on the stand, making music in the moment and capturing that same atmosphere in the studio for repeat listening."
Jazzwise Magazine

“Skilfully crafted and executed with consistent aplomb.”
★★★★ All About Jazz

"Everything you could want from a contemporary bop outfit delivered in a single immaculately executed package."
Jazz Views

"Stylish and enjoyable."
★★★★ Jazz Journal (website)

"Harvey, Gascoyne and De Krom combine with O'Higgins to make this as tight a quartet as you'll find whilst, paradoxically, retaining the looseness and freedom that, in the right hands, equate to perfection."
Bebop Spoken Here

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Apr 24

Marian's Jazzroom

Bern, Switzerland
Apr 25

Marian's Jazzroom

Bern, Switzerland
Apr 26

Marian's Jazzroom

Bern, Switzerland
Apr 27

Marian's Jazzroom

Bern, Switzerland
May 3

Cape Town International Jazz Festival

Cape Town, South Africa
May 18

The Blue Room

Lincoln, UK
May 24

Jazz Club Augsburg

Augsburg, Germany
May 25

Birdland

Hamburg, Germany

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