To launch the 26/27 season, we start with the front-line pairing of saxophonist Martin Kern and trumpeter Andy Hague. For tonight's gig, they will be ditching the printed arrangements and playing a selection of standards and Blue Note era classics they both know from memory, in homage to the famous Real Books. For the non-players...
For our first touring band of the season we're pleased to present for the first time saxophonist Sam Glaser, with a band of current London luminaries who between them have been performing with artists such as Alex Hitchcock, Emma Rawicz, Ant Law, Kit Downes and more. Sam Glaser is an alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader...
Al Cohn and Zoot Sims were one of the great tenor sax partnerships in jazz. In a series of albums beginning in the late fifties, along with regular spots at the Half Note in New York, they developed a quintet sound based on a joyful approach to performing, rooted in swing, informed by bebop and...
