Since 2001, Oxford Improvisers have been promoting improvised music by musicians living, studying and working in the Oxford area, after picking up on the work started by the Oxford Improvisers’ Co-operative in the 1980s. Over the next couple of months they have a few events lined up:

Tuesday 3 April: Old Fire Station, Oxford
Lee Riley and Stuart Chalmers / Chris Dammers, Dan Goren and Paul Medley, plus group improvisations and conductions by Oxford Improvisers Orchestra. (7.30 pm, £6/£4 concessions)

Tuesday 1 May: Old Fire Station, Oxford
The Return Of Nostromo (free jazz quartet featuring Alexander Hawkins, Pete McPhail, Dominic Lash and Roger Telford), plus group improvisations and conductions by Oxford Improvisers Orchestra. (7.30 pm, £6/£4 concessions)

Tuesday 8 May: Folly Bridge Inn, Oxford
The NHAM Quartet (Tony Bevan, Jeb Bishop, John Edwards and Michael Zerang) – ten year reunion tour. (8.30 pm, £7/£5 concessions)

Tuesday 5 June: Old Fire Station, Oxford
Oxford Improvisers at Oxfringe 2012: performing alongside image and motion from DEC (a group of visual artists and dancers) and a selection of Oxford’s poets. (£7.00 pm, £8/£6 concessions)

Oxford Improvisers also hold regular ‘Monday night sessions’ in the upstairs foyer of the Richard Hamilton Building in Oxford Brookes University. These are open to anybody – regardless of skill level – interested in free improvisation, with the only proviso being to “have an open mind, a willingness to listen, to respond and to enjoy”. For more information email Oxford Improvisers.