HARRY CHRISTELIS QUARTET
15 November 2025 at 7:30pm
Part of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2025
Whilst Harry Christelis (guitar/composition) is the ostensible group leader of the quartet, there is a palpably communal sense about their approach to music. It is a quartet of explorative contemporary jazz, one of deep musical conversation between all the players. Featuring a cast of hugely in demand and celebrated musicians, each player draws on their divergent experience and pedigree to colour, shape and delineate the soundworlds evoked. The music brings to mind the Fourth Worlds of Jon Hassell, the oceanic exploration of Miles Davis, the deep space of ECM, and the remote, avant-pop lighthouse scan of late Talk Talk. But these are mere comparisons. These musicians draw you into an ecosystem you have never visited before – a place you’d want to spend time: comfortably unfamiliar, intimately remote, beguilingly melancholic, and distressingly beautiful.
Christelis’ 2023 album ‘Nurture The Child / Challenge The Adult' was met with international critical acclaim, and his upcoming 2026 album ‘Preserving Fictions’ is set to build upon the bands successes even further as they carry on exploring their unique approach to improvised music.
"Compelling ambient music pitched somewhere between In A Silent Way-era Miles Davis and late-era Talk Talk” - The Guardian
- Harry Christelis - guitar/electronics
- George Crowley - saxophone/electronics
- Andrea di Biase - double bass
- Riccardo Chiaberta – drums
Tickets £15 available here.
At Heath Street Baptist Church. See map and get directions.