Formerly known as SEED Ensemble, seed. is a Mercury Award-nominated ten piece band led by alto saxophonist and composer Cassie Kinoshi. The band presents a stellar line-up featuring some of London’s most up-and-coming young jazz musicians including tuba player Theon Cross (Sons of Kemet), trumpeter Sheila-Maurice-Grey (Kokoroko) and guitarist Shirley Tetteh (Maisha). Combining jazz with inner-city London, West African and Caribbean influenced groove, seed. explores a blend of genres through original compositions and improvisation. Their debut release Driftglass (Jazz Re:freshed, 2019) features the track Afronaut (feat. XANA) which won the Ivors Academy Award 2018 (formerly known as BASCA, British Composer Award) for Jazz Composition for Large Ensemble. Presented by Music-Net. Music-Net is a partnership between producer and promoter Root Music and Inner City Music, owners and operators of historic Manchester music venue Band on the Wall, funded by Arts Council England. Our venue is currently closed to the public in line with Government guidelines. If you have tickets for this event, please be assured that we are liaising with the artists and we will be in touch with you should we need to reschedule or cancel. We appreciate your patience whilst we wait for news of any easing of the current lockdown restrictions. This event has been rescheduled from the originally publicised date of 4/4/2020