Larry Stabbins will be giving a rough guide to the history of modern jazz when he performs at the Tolmen Centre in Constantine on Saturday, July 6.

During a long and varied musical career saxophonist, Larry has worked with most of the important figures at the cutting edge of European jazz and improvisation, from Mike Westbrook to Keith Tippett and Germany’s Peter Brotzmann.

Alongside this he played in the seminal pop group Weekend and formed a key writing partnership with its guitarist Simon Booth. This became the basis for Working Week, a project that took a melange of latin, soul and jazz into the world of pop and dance music.

Born out of the burgeoning Latin Jazz Dance scene in London clubs such as the Electric Ballroom and the Wag, the new band mixed jazz with modish Latin dance rhythms and vocals by singers such as Juliet Roberts and Robert Wyatt among others.

They became a dominating force in the 80s British jazz revival, the movement that made jazz fashionable again, introducing it to a new young audience and instigating a great upsurge in new talent onto the British Jazz Scene. The band toured extensively in Europe and Japan, performing at most of Europe’s major Jazz Festivals, recording five albums for Virgin Records.

Since then he has had different projects of his own across the range of his interests from totally improvised small groups and solo performances.

He will be appearing at the Tolmen playing saxophones, flute and bass clarinet with a new version of the classic acoustic jazz trio improvising on tunes from across the post war years, with the cream of new young Cornish jazz musicians, Tom Dauncey on Bass and Taylor Daley on Drums.