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Five-Way Split feat. Quentin Collins & Vasilis Xenopoulos: “Modus Operandi”!
@ Jazz Café Posk
Friday 5th June 2026
Bar 7 pm / music 8 pm
→ Tickets £15 on the door
and Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/five-way-split-feat-quentin-collins-vasilis-xenopoulos-modus-operandi-tickets-1987638592536?aff=oddtdtcreator
Five-Way Split featuring Quentin Collins and Vasilis Xenopoulos present their new album “Modus Operandi”!
London-based ‘Five-Way Split’present their 2nd
album ‘Modus Operandi’, providing a continuation of the straight-ahead
contemporary bop which was the hallmark of their standout 2023 debut ‘All the
Way’.
Formed and crafted during weeks and months of
rehearsal throughout the 2020 lockdown, the ‘Split ’take the lineage of hard
bop giants ‘Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’, infuse the modern-day sound
of New York super group ‘One for All ’and have created their own unique take on
the genre.
With their debut release shortlisted on several
end- of- year “best of” album lists and nominated in ‘Best Ensemble ’category
at last year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards, their second album release ‘Modus
Operandi ’commands high expectations indeed. Expect snappy, melodic and
harmonically nuanced themes from the pen of pianist Rob Barron, Ronnie Scott’s
Club veteran trumpeter, Quentin Collins and sax super- power Vasilis
Xenopoulos. As before, the horns are underpinned by the ever in -sync rhythm
team of bassist Matyas Hofecker & UK drum stalwart Matt Home.
It’s immediately clear upon first listening that
this is a band who have covered the hard yards in the rehearsal studio, and
their music will appeal to all fans of melodic, hard- swinging straight ahead
Jazz!
Line up:
Quentin Collins - trumpet
Vasilis Xenopoulos - saxophone
Matyas Gayer - piano
Matyas Hofecker - bass
Matt Home – drums
“Five-Way Split is a group of some of the finest
contemporary musicians on the UK circuit who make a strong case for bebop and
hard bop being a vital force in 21st century jazz” - Nick Lea, Jazz Views
Quentin Collins “Splendid” - BBC Music Magazine
Vasilis Xenopoulos “One of the most fiery young
saxophonists around” - The Times
Video 1 (Five-Way Split – “Modus Operandi”
showreel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HIncl97a80