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Julian Siegel Quartet Biography
Julian Siegel – tenor & soprano sax,
bass clarinet, compositions
Liam Noble – Piano
Oli Hayhurst - Double Bass
Gene Calderazzo – Drums
“Expressive direct music.... tightly wound
post-bop, pensive improv. and more.”
John Fordham, The Guardian ★ ★ ★ ★
Jazz Album of the Month, February 2018
“A great quartet with an enthralling agility.”
★ ★ ★ ★ In Music
”Exciting, dynamic music with improvisation
at its centre.”- London Jazz News
Following up from their London Jazz Award winning album Urban Theme Park (Basho Music), 2018 saw the release of VISTA, the second album of the Julian Siegel Quartet and the first on the Whirlwind Recordings label. The album features ten of Julian’s compositions plus an arrangement of Bud Powell's ‘Un Poco Loco’. This acoustic set of music moves freely through varied sound worlds and colours, from undercurrents of bop to searching ballads and joyful melodies.
Since the release of VISTA, the band has performed internationally at Jazz Festivals including INNtöne Jazz Festival in Austria, Made in The UK at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, the Jazz Standard NYC, JazzFestival Goettingen in Germany, Limerick Jazz Festival Ireland, UK’s Love Supreme Festival 2019, Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival, Manchester International Jazz Festival and many other UK shows included in an extensive 2018 – 2019 Arts Council England UK
Tour.
The Quartet was featured on the cover of UK’s Jazzwise Magazine in February 2018 and VISTA was included in Jazzwise’s Top 20 Jazz Albums of the year.
”Imaginative, grounded and beguiling.” - Musikreviews Magazin
”Eleven absolutely thrilling pieces in which Siegel gets down to business... It’s his attention to detail and the outstanding soloing that makes this work exciting.” - Concerto Magazine
★ ★ ★ ★
‘Julian Siegel’s Quartet play flickering, poised tunes with considerable deftness and drive. Siegel and Noble are great foils for each other and give the music crackle and dance” Love Supreme Festival, Ian Pople in the Manchester Review
“The interaction between the musicians is confident, lyrical and cool, joyous and snappy, precise and sprawling – and enchanting melodiousness throughout.” ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Saarbrücker Zeitung
“Complex, catchy, high-energy and modern.” INNtöne Jazz Festival
“Plenty of pushing at the barriers of tonality as you’d expect from such adventurous and accomplished players, but it’s tempered with a refreshing melodicism and groove... An exhilarating experience.” - Jazz Views
“Siegel seems as much at one with his instrument as he is with his craft, and with Liam Noble on piano, Oli Hayhurst on bass and Gene Calderazzo on drums this band is surely among the best in Europe” Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise Magazine Vinyl Roundup
“Clear-cut moods and meaty discourses... As tracks ebb, flow and draw to a peak, Siegel’s assured fluency is underscored by the understated, equal partner support of Oli Hayhurst and Gene Calderazzo.” - Financial Times ★ ★ ★ ★
"The release of a new recording by Siegel is always a major event in the British Jazz calendar and 'Vista' is no exception.” - The Jazz Mann
Read Morebass clarinet, compositions
Liam Noble – Piano
Oli Hayhurst - Double Bass
Gene Calderazzo – Drums
“Expressive direct music.... tightly wound
post-bop, pensive improv. and more.”
John Fordham, The Guardian ★ ★ ★ ★
Jazz Album of the Month, February 2018
“A great quartet with an enthralling agility.”
★ ★ ★ ★ In Music
”Exciting, dynamic music with improvisation
at its centre.”- London Jazz News
Following up from their London Jazz Award winning album Urban Theme Park (Basho Music), 2018 saw the release of VISTA, the second album of the Julian Siegel Quartet and the first on the Whirlwind Recordings label. The album features ten of Julian’s compositions plus an arrangement of Bud Powell's ‘Un Poco Loco’. This acoustic set of music moves freely through varied sound worlds and colours, from undercurrents of bop to searching ballads and joyful melodies.
Since the release of VISTA, the band has performed internationally at Jazz Festivals including INNtöne Jazz Festival in Austria, Made in The UK at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, the Jazz Standard NYC, JazzFestival Goettingen in Germany, Limerick Jazz Festival Ireland, UK’s Love Supreme Festival 2019, Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival, Manchester International Jazz Festival and many other UK shows included in an extensive 2018 – 2019 Arts Council England UK
Tour.
The Quartet was featured on the cover of UK’s Jazzwise Magazine in February 2018 and VISTA was included in Jazzwise’s Top 20 Jazz Albums of the year.
”Imaginative, grounded and beguiling.” - Musikreviews Magazin
”Eleven absolutely thrilling pieces in which Siegel gets down to business... It’s his attention to detail and the outstanding soloing that makes this work exciting.” - Concerto Magazine
★ ★ ★ ★
‘Julian Siegel’s Quartet play flickering, poised tunes with considerable deftness and drive. Siegel and Noble are great foils for each other and give the music crackle and dance” Love Supreme Festival, Ian Pople in the Manchester Review
“The interaction between the musicians is confident, lyrical and cool, joyous and snappy, precise and sprawling – and enchanting melodiousness throughout.” ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Saarbrücker Zeitung
“Complex, catchy, high-energy and modern.” INNtöne Jazz Festival
“Plenty of pushing at the barriers of tonality as you’d expect from such adventurous and accomplished players, but it’s tempered with a refreshing melodicism and groove... An exhilarating experience.” - Jazz Views
“Siegel seems as much at one with his instrument as he is with his craft, and with Liam Noble on piano, Oli Hayhurst on bass and Gene Calderazzo on drums this band is surely among the best in Europe” Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise Magazine Vinyl Roundup
“Clear-cut moods and meaty discourses... As tracks ebb, flow and draw to a peak, Siegel’s assured fluency is underscored by the understated, equal partner support of Oli Hayhurst and Gene Calderazzo.” - Financial Times ★ ★ ★ ★
"The release of a new recording by Siegel is always a major event in the British Jazz calendar and 'Vista' is no exception.” - The Jazz Mann
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