Pinski Zoo

Just like a more user-friendly Last Leave, the UK’s loud and joyful Pinski Zoo has combined the free jazz from the 60s, the funk-fusion beat from the 70s as well as the technology of later on decades to make a powerful, accessible make of harmolodics. Head-keeper Jan Kopinski statements Yma Sumac, Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane as his seminal affects, though obviously Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman’s Primary Time are also inspirations. The music group, probably one of the most energetic and exhilarating operating units around, started in Nottingham, Britain, like Kopinski and fellow-founder member Steve Iliffe. Previously editions included Tim Bullock (drums), Tim Nolan (bass) and Mick Nolan (percussion, vocals), but by the first 90s the staff comprised Kopinski (soprano and tenor saxophones), Iliffe (keyboards), Karl Wesley Bingham (electrical bass), and Steve Harris (drums). Their albums Rare Breeds and East Rail East had been extremely acclaimed by UK jazz critics. Kopinski and Bingham are two of the very most exciting and specific talents in modern jazz.