Jim Hart – vibes/drums
Ivo Neame – piano/reeds
Multi-instrumentalists Jim Hart and Ivo Neame have been playing together since the beginning of the century. Both founder members of the Loop collective and members of each other’s bands, (The Ivo Neame Quartet and Jim Hart's Gemini) they have developed a superb empathy for one another's playing – 'as if they are finishing each other's sentences'. Their music is often rhythmically charged whilst being very fluid and open.
Duo Plus crept in to being after Ivo and Jim were asked on several occasions to play as a duo and began exploring the different textures that piano and saxophone (Ivo) with drums and vibraphone (Jim) could create. By chance Rory Simmons (trumpet) was at one of these gigs and he sat in. Duo Plus was born.
