Beneath a large dome in a square room – the former home of the Limelight Club in Shaftesbury Avenue – this was a highly intimate show. Performed in the round in the centre of the audience, the quartet facing each [...]
The colourful abstractions of the Alex Hitchcock Dream Band mesmerised a sold out PizzaExpress on the sole UK date on their Spring tour. English saxophonist, bandleader and Ivor-Novello nominated composer Alex Hitchcock has a growing international reputation. The band had [...]
Rising-star tenor saxophonist and composer Alex Hitchcock recently released ‘Dream Band: Live in London’ (Whirlwind Recordings), a triple album which documents three different bands led by him across consecutive nights at the Vortex. UKJazz News: First off- the record sounds [...]
There’s probably a bad joke somewhere that starts “two Koreans, two Italians and a Scot walk into a bar” but in this case there’s no joke, and no bar, it just describes the multinational, Amsterdam based quintet at the centre [...]
Lockdown was a hard time for many people as they faced isolation, grief and the sudden loss of their livelihoods. But some musicians managed to turn this to their advantage, spending their enforced time away from gigging by writing and [...]
It is a tribute to tenor saxophonist Alex Hitchcock that he has become a respected name in London’s currently vibrant jazz scene, where it is hard to stand out in a crowd of so many highly accomplished young musicians vying [...]
The launch of saxophonist and composer Alex Hitchcock’s new album Dream Band (Fresh Sound) is at Ronnie Scott’s on 4 November. The album will be released on the Barcelona label Fresh Sound on 19 November. It is the fourth album [...]
There are time at jazz gigs when everything is pefectly aligned, times when they are definitely not, and in this case in the course of the same gig. Start with the best: I had gone to Pizza Express to marvel [...]
At first glance, it might seem that tenor saxophonist and composer Alex Hitchcock has pulled together a supergroup big band for this album, full of luminaries of the UK jazz scene. A closer inspection, however, shows that he’s done something more [...]
Bristol-based saxophonist Alex Merritt has been given a unique honour. He has been commissioned by Jordi Pujol, the founder of Fresh Sounds Records in Barcelona, to record and produce a double album for various groups from quartets to nonets drawn [...]
