THE DARIUS BRUBECK QUARTET (EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2025)

Jazz Café POSK

The Darius Brubeck Quartet will play their own chosen favourite tunes &amp; numbers that audiences around the world have requested and enjoyed!

Polish Social and Cultural Association POSK

Bar 7 pm / music 8 pmThe concert is included in the official program of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2025.The Darius Brubeck Quartet returns to Jazz Café POSK with a themed programme of favourite tunes and original jazz!At Jazz Café POSK on November 22nd, 2025, the Darius Brubeck Quartet will play their own chosen favourite tunes as well as numbers that audiences around the world have requested and enjoyed. The quartet has been together for nearly 20 years and have amassed a lengthy set list. Together with Darius Brubeck the other musicians, Dave O’Higgins, Matt Ridley and Wesley Gibbens have an enthusiastic individual following and, as a group, always play to full houses. Expect familiar hits and innovation within a swinging night of music.The Darius Brubeck Quartet, with its three-dimensional programming of original compositions, Dave Brubeck hits and South African jazz is a real draw. Playing to consistently sold-out houses at home and abroad, their acoustic sound is melodic, spontaneous, rhythmic and audience friendly. Reaction to the quartet has been enthusiastic, whether in Riyadh or Ronnie Scott’s. In June 2025, they thrilled audiences at Festivals in the South of France and are now back appearing in the UK again.Line up:Darius Brubeck – pianoDave O’Higgins – saxMatt Ridley – bassWesley Gibbens – drumsDuring the 1970s, pianist and composer DARIUS BRUBECK toured the world with The New Brubeck Quartet (Dave, Darius, Chris and Dan Brubeck). He moved to South Africa in 1983 and initiated the first degree in Jazz Studies offered by an African university, then founded the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he taught until 2005 and toured with many great South African musicians. Darius and his wife Catherine co-authored a book called “Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and On the Road”. Brubeck is based in England and performs worldwide with The Darius Brubeck Quartet.Together they have made three very well reviewed albums. He also sometimes still plays with his brothers in Brubecks Play Brubeck.“Darius, the eldest (of Dave Brubeck’s sons) and most visually like his father, plays stylish piano and knows the score” - Jack Massarik, Evening Standard“How often do you come away from a jazz concert wishing it could have been bottled and later poured out to relive the magic again?” – Stuart Nicolson, Jazzwise, 2020“The combination of Brubeck &amp; O’Higgins is certainly among the best piano/sax partnerships in the UK” - Jazzwise<a href="http://www.dariusbrubeck.com" title="http://www.dariusbrubeck.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.dariusbrubeck.com</a>Media patronage: Londynek.net

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