Neo-cool jazz and new fado provide the climax to Plushmusic’s Cologne festival

Tonight, saxophonist and Plushmusic founder Hayden Chisholm presents an eclectic evening of jazz, world and extemporised music.

Hayden’s trio kicks off the event at 8.30pm, with Phil Donkin on bass and Jochen Rückert on drums. The trio’s ‘neo-cool’ tag is a critic’s invention: a way to express their seemless and swinging approach to avant-garde technique. They’ve converted mainstream audiences from Berlin to New York to the merits of microtonality. Now it’s our turn – and for a taste of what to expect, here are Hayden and Jochen playing with bassist Matt Penman:

The second set this evening introduces a bright new talent to Plushmusic: the Portuguese singer Lula Pena, described by one critic as ‘the incarnation of new fado’. Here she is playing at the Cabaret Maxime in Lisbon, November 2007.