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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Django Bates is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 9 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Django Bates is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth seeing. Django Bates concert reviews describe live shows and performances as emotional, upbeat, and surreal.
Django Bates (born 2nd October 1960 in Beckenham, Kent, United Kingdom) is a composer and virtuoso multi-instrumentalist. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn.
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Jazzwise (UK)
January 8, 2024
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The revered Brit jazz pianist and composer was in town for two very special solo concerts which were also The Vortex's first shows of 2024
It was an emotional night for Jo3’s devoted presenter Jez Nelson (athough his own new slot on Jazz FM is imminent) but an all-star cast of British jazz luminaries could hardly have made it a more upbeat tribute.
You could argue that it's easier to premier a project than to take it on a successful second outing, particularly when that premier is a wonderfully eccentric tribute to Charlie Parker that left critics salivating and a packed Albert Hall in raptures.
The differences were magnified by Bates's new use of a pitch-bending synth alongside the acoustic piano so he frequently played simultaneous lines in eerie almost-unison with each other.
"There's been a bit of a misunderstanding," pianist Django Bates brightly announced. "We thought we were guests of Evan's, and he thought he was a guest of ours." Contemporary-sax trailblazer Evan Parker had been invited to curate a five-night Vortex season for musicians he likes (from Oxford keyboard firebra
The British star may have been celebrating his 50th birthday with the latest edition of his Human Chain ensemble but in the mix of frenetic glee and deadpan surrealism he displayed he was almost a dead ringer for the Django Bates of 25 years ago.
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