London Jazz Festival, in association with BBC Radio 3, Friday 11 to Sunday 20 November 2011

A prime mover on the Scottish jazz scene since the 1980s, saxophonist/composer Phil Bancroft always casts a wide creative net in search of inspiration. His latest project collides humour, the power of music, visual image and communication technology, with the inner worlds and memories of you – the audience – to make an interactive, highly moving, multi-media jazz celebration of what “Home” means in today’s world.

A musical journey carries you from the personal and domestic, through memories of Childhood, our relationship with democracy Nationalism & War, to Planet Earth our collective home and beyond. A terrific 7-piece band, counts folk supergroup LAU's fiddler Aidan O’Rourke and guitarist Graeme Stephen amongst the soloists, in music furnished with Jarrett/Redman melodies, homespun fiddle rounds, Junk Magic samples/impro, lyrical chamber music and George Clinton Funkadelia with echoes of Gong, but with a heart all of its own.

Shows include a live housework race between men and women, a guest musician playing via Skype from their own front room, and images and words from the public.

GET INVOLVED: Check live videos and upload what ‘Home’ means to you in text and images at www.smallastheworld.com -submissions used in back projections during the show.

To get a feel for the show watch the clips below.

"Powerful Scottish creator Bancroft explores the meanings of ‘home’ through compositions and improv, movies, an interactive website, audience participation and more." John Fordham The Guardian

"Kaleidoscopic, liquid beauty.....tremendously stimulating." Three Weeks Website- 4 stars