ALAN BARNES QUARTET

Tickets £8, Doors 7pm, Performance 8pm

Alan Barnes Quartet

Alan Barnes - sax

Jim Hart - vibes

Mark Hodgson - bass

Paul Clarvis - drums

Multi-award winning highly focussed sax virtuoso drawing on the tradition of Cannonball Adderley & Sonny Stitt, respected throughout the jazz world from the BBC Big Band to Humphrey Lyttleton & Stan Tracey’s groups.

Alan has enjoyed a prolific career playing and recording for many bands. He broadcast regularly over a ten-year period with the BBC Big Band and Radio Orchestra and has toured and recorded with big band leaders, Dick Walter, Kenny Baker, Bob Wilber, Don Weller, Stan Tracey, Mike Westbrook and John Dankworth. Other bands he has toured and recorded with include the Tina May Trio, Bill LeSage’s Genetically Modified Quintet, Spike Robinson’s Tenor Madness, Clare Teale, and a sextet with Don Weller playing the music of Cannonball Adderley. Alan has also toured the U.K. with Freddie Hubbard. Alan has long associations with pianist David Newton, going back to their college days, and with blistering be-bop trumpeter Bruce Adams, with whom he has co-led a quintet since the early nineties.

“A tonic for the ears… among the most accomplished of British jazz musicians” The Daily Telegraph

“Alan plays it hard and fast and with the sort of inventive flexibility and invention that ensures that he has his own sound and style and could not be easily be confused with another player.” Jazz Journal

Jim Hart - (Phil Woods, Julian Arguelles, Airto Moreira, Sir John Dankworth, Dame Cleo Laine, Stan Sulzmann,)
“Outstanding….a stunning performance from the rhythmically poised Hart.” Financial Times

Mark Hodgson - (Cedar Walton, Phil Woods, Steve Grossman, Randy Brecker, Larry Coryell, Kenny Wheeler)
“Mark excels in the near impossible task of maintaining pulse and poise…..give Hodgson a little breathing room and he’ll construct a gorgeous solo as well” Downbeat Magazine

Paul Clarvis -(Andy Sheppard, Stan Sulzmann, Julian Joseph, Nina Simone, Herbie Hancock, Ravi Shankar)
“His eclecticism isn’t a career move or a calculated experiment, but an almost innocent openness to playing and hearing all music with equal wonderment” The Guardian