Music Spoken Here presents Robert Castelli & BOOM!
The Marr’s Bar, 12 Pierpoint Street, Worcester WR1 1TA
Thursday 9th October, 7:30pm doors for 8pm start
Pay what you can on the door (suggested contribution £15)
Originally from New York with Italian heritage and now living in Spain, third-generation drummer and composer Robert Castelli is set to return to The Marr’s Bar on Thursday 9th October.
Castelli made his Worcester debut in March 2023, on the nascent jazz program curated by local promoter Music Spoken Here. Now well into its fourth year at the city venue and building a solid reputation throughout the UK jazz community, the fortnightly “Kind of Jazz” program has seen over 250 musicians perform, many for the first time in Worcester. While the club rarely books the same acts twice, their Autumn season launched in September with “Re:play” – a series of performances from five select bands and artists that appeared on the program in the first few months as the club was getting off the ground.
For this performance, Castelli’s quartet “BOOM!”, inspired by the short-lived 1979 “Trio of Doom” (John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorius and Tony Williams) sees the return of UK-based musicians Francesco LoCastro on guitar and Jonny Wickham on bass, who were both in BOOM in 2023. LoCastro subsequently appeared in May the same year with his own quartet and Wickham performed in the club in May last year with Steve Taylor’s Fusion Phew. They are joined on this occasion by Anita Łazinska on keys.
Castelli has recorded three albums, most recently “Party at One World Plaza”, about which club regular and award-winning jazz journalist Ian Mann noted “Castelli’s undoubted ‘way with a groove’ helps to push the soloists to new heights on a set of compositions that stir other elements, notably from Africa & Brazil, into the broadly fusion-esque style.”
Thursday’s performance starts at 8pm. Admission is “pay what you can” with a suggested contribution of £15 per person. For more information go to musicspokenhere.club