Vika (with Julian Joseph)

British jazz pianist, Julian Joseph joins Matthew Barley for their first concert at Kings Place, London.
They perform new material from their dazzling new Signum Records release, ‘Dance of the Three Legged Elephants’.
Close friends and musical collaborators, Matthew and Julian explore the traditions from which their music-making has individually evolved, in a series of imaginative improvisations and arrangements.
Vika, originally written for Barley’s wife, Russian violinist Viktoria Mullova, is a gorgeous, expansive melody with an 8/8 latin feel pulsing beneath. There is something yearningly European in the passionate cello tune, as well as echoes of Chick Corea in the harmonies and piano lines of the solo section.

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cello, Matthew Barley, Julian Joseph, Kings Place, and Vika