The Dave O’Higgins Quartet 'It’s Always 9:30 in Zog'

Album Launch

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Last Show: Tuesday 12 th September 2017

PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)

Dave’s saxophone sound is highly personal and recognisable, with a clear sense of melodic development and adventure. He has a wide palette from Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson through to Stanley Turrentine and Michael Brecker. The quartet are unashamed to swing, drawing on blues and functional harmonies and the great tome of jazz vocabulary. The new CD, 'It’s Always 9.30 In Zog' fizzes with life and panache. Tonight is the CD launch and begins a massive 33-date UK tour.

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“O’Higgins plays with quite exceptional fluency and his fund of ideas never runs out.”

The Observer

Dave O’Higgins is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, educator and latterly recording engineer and producer. He has been a popular figure on the UK and international jazz scene for 30 years now, with countless recordings as sideman and 19 albums as leader under his belt.

Dave’s tenor and soprano sax sounds are highly personal and recognisable, with a clear sense of melodic development and adventure. A popular performer with the public, with an excellent sense of pacing and presentation, he has a wide palette from Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson through to Stanley Turrentine and Michael Brecker. He has relentlessly pursued artistic and sonic exploration, and enjoys the learning process which is a constant advancing flow. The quartet has been together for 5 years now with Sebastiaan de Krom (drums), Geoff Gascoyne (bass) and Graham Harvey (piano) - a band that is unashamed to swing and draw on blues and functional harmonies and the great tome of jazz vocabulary, eschewing fads and fusions.

The Dave O’Higgins Quartet with be doing a massive 33-date tour of the UK promoting the new CD, It’s Always 9:30 in Zog, Sept-Dec 2017 with the help of awards from the Arts Council of England and PRS Foundation.

Band Lineup

Dave O’Higgins (tenor and soprano saxes)

Graham Harvey (piano)

Geoff Gascoyne (bass)

Sebastiaan de Krom (drums)