Here, in Brilliant Corners' intimate backroom, Shepherd and Hebden recently hosted an impromptu Sunday-night party – just for fun.
Brilliant Corners in Dalston has a great sound system; Cosmic Slop in Leeds has the greatest sound system in the world.
In October , 1956 Keepnews had Monk throw down a wild gauntlet of compositional and organizational audacity, "Brilliant Corners," featuring the saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Ernie Henry and the drummer Max Roach.
blocweekend.com Dan Beaumont is a DJ and co-founder of Dalston Superstore and Voodoo Rays "Brilliant Corners is more of a listening experience than a club, but it's a lovely one.
Amit Patel says Brilliant Corners was created "because my brother and I are obsessive music-lovers, and we wanted somewhere to share that where it would sound its very best".
But Brilliant Corners was no calculated technical highwire act, but a piece of audaciously adventurous composing that has never lost its power to startle and seduce over the decades.
We're in Brilliant Corners, a low lit DJ bar-restaurant in Dalston, east London, where discerning vintage sounds spill out of an expensive-looking speaker stack behind us.
So, too, it turns out, are discussions of writers, fighters and actors (at least in their film roles), given the interdisciplinary scope of the conference, "Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures".
Meanwhile, Classic Album Sundays plays everything from Jay Z to Art Of Noise to Ride albums, while, alongside their DJ sets from new-generation fidelity obsessives such as Four Tet and Floating Points, Brilliant Corners do regular play-throughs of classic jazz albums followed by a reinterpretation by a live band.
That, he says, is what he wants from Brilliant Corners: "I want it to be more like a family party where you'll meet all sorts and hear all sorts: not a club where you have to be part of a scene, and DJs have to pump it out to keep the energy up".
