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Last Show: Sunday 23 ^rd July 2023

PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)

Pianist Alex Webb leads this group with a powerful tenor & trombone front-line celebrating ‘jukebox jazz’ - the bluesy, swinging jazz of the 1950s and 60s, as well as more recent works from the likes of Charlie Haden. Tenor saxophonist Denys Baptiste has played and recorded with some of the biggest names in jazz, including McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill & Ernest Ranglin. He has won multiple awards including the "Mercury Music Album of the Year" and "MOBO Award for Best Jazz Act" and he was also a two-time Jazz FM Award Nominee in 2018. Trombonist Rosie Turton is a rising star on the UK music scene, a graduate of the Tomorrow’s Warriors collective, cited by The Guardian as ‘One To Watch’ and nominated for Jazz FM’s ‘Breakthrough Act of the Year 2020’. Alex Webb is a prolific songwriter, arranger and pianist, whose songs have been recorded by a number of high-profile jazz singers including China Moses, Jo Harrop, Mina Agossi & Liane Carroll. For the gig tonight Quintet Blue is completed by bassist Jeremy Brown and drummer Winston Clifford.

"Price is probably the most dynamic and gifted guitarist on the British jazz scene today"

All About Jazz

"Denys Baptiste…taking Europe by storm and becoming the icon of British jazz" Time Magazine

"Baptiste…a journey of unregulated bliss" Liverpool International Jazz Festival

“A warm-hearted tone, speedy modernist lines and short funky riffs” The Financial Times on Rosie Turton

Pianist Alex Webb leads this group with a front-line of two of the UK’s greatest jazz improvisers: tenor saxophonist Denys Baptiste and guitarist Nigel Price. Together they celebrate ‘jukebox jazz’ - the bluesy, swinging jazz of the 1950s and 60s, with a repertoire of pieces from Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Ahmad Jamal and others, as well as more recent works from Charlie Haden’s Quartet West.

Time Magazine described Denys Baptiste as an ‘icon of British jazz’, with a most distinctive and immediately recognisable sound. In his time he has received the MOBO Best Jazz Act award twice, and a British Jazz Award for Rising Star. He has played and recorded with some of the biggest names in jazz and other genres including McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Ernest Ranglin, Martin Taylor, Billy Higgins and many more.

Alex Webb is a prolific songwriter, arranger and pianist, whose songs have been recorded by jazz singers China Moses, Mina Agossi, Sandra Nkake, Liane Carroll, Allan Harris, Alexia Gardner and Alexander Stewart, among others.

Trombonist, composer and producer Rosie Turton is a rising star on the UK music scene, cited by The Guardian as ‘One To Watch’ and nominated for Jazz FM’s ‘Breakthrough Act of the Year 2020’. A veteran of the Tomorrow’s Warriors collective, she released her debut LP, ‘Rosie’s 5ive’, with Jazz Re:freshed in early 2019 and her most recent EP ‘Expansions and Transformations: Part I & II’ in 2021.

Band Line Up

Alex Webb (piano)

Denys Baptiste (tenor sax)

Rosie Turton (trombone)

Jeremy Brown (bass)

Winston Clifford (drums)