Jazz Hastings April Session

About

Saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes, who will be the featured artist at Jazz Hastings on April 5 at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association, has been described by John Fordham in The Guardian as "one of the most agile and original jugglers of improv and adventurous composition to have appeared in the UK in recent times".

Clowes was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2012-14, during which time she was commissioned to write for the BBC Concert Orchestra, a piece that won her a British Composer Award in 2015. She has recorded six critically acclaimed albums and has a seventh due for release in April.

Clowes's band My Iris – with Chris Montague on guitar, Ross Stanley on piano and organ and James Maddren on drums – represents the front rank of the contemporary UK jazz scene and has been hailed as "the jazz of the future" (Augsburger Allgemeine).