Gypsy Jazz with Matt Holborn, Kourosh Kanani & Simon Read

Gypsy jazz in The Cave. Matt Holborn hosts, with Kourosh Kanani on guitar and Simon Read back on double bass. Matt Holborn is one of the finest jazz violinists working in Britain and the host of these nights. Trained at Leeds Conservatoire and schooled further by Tim Kliphuis and Tcha Limberger, he has taken this repertoire to Ronnie Scott's, the London Jazz Festival, Pizza Express Jazz Club and the Festival Django Reinhardt at Samois, the pilgrimage gig for anyone who plays this music. He has played in Bill Bailey's live band, co-founded the London Django Collective, and his album For Stuff, a tribute to the violinist Stuff Smith, was called "celestial" and "rapturous" by the i. On guitar is Kourosh Kanani, a London guitarist of Persian and Irish heritage who came down from Leeds steeped in the manouche style. He leads his own Gypsy Swing Quartet, has recorded and toured with the gypsy jazz quartet Latchepen, plays in the London Django Collective alongside Matt, and has taken Django's music to festivals like Django by the Sea. He also brings something of his own to it, folding Persian melody into the swing. Holding it all together on double bass is Simon Read, one of the most in-demand jazz bassists in London. Leeds-trained, he has toured and recorded with the Adrian Cox Quartet and the Sam Leak Trio, and is the bassist in Matt's own quartet. His trio album Dual Highway came out last year. Violin, guitar and bass: the classic hot club line-up. It is fast, funny, romantic music, built on a hundred years of players trying to outdo each other, and it belongs in a small room. The Cave is our intimate venue with a very limited capacity. Georgian wine at the bar, khachapuri out of the oven, and live gypsy jazz close enough to watch the hands move.