“Trish Clowes is a fiercely talented jazz saxophonist” - Ivan Hewett, the Telegraph
“This is British Jazz at its best… I suggest you go and see her now before it’s difficult to get in the room, I assure you she is a great great talent.” - Jamie Cullum
“Trish Clowes is one of the most agile and original jugglers of improv and adventurous composition to have appeared in the UK in recent times” - John Fordham, the Guardian
“a young woman brimming with the surprise and ever-inventive singularity of her magic” – Chris Searle, Morning Star
4 STAR review from John Fordham at the Guardian for Trish Clowes/Guy Barker/Norma Winstone EFG London Jazz Festival concert with BBC Concert Orchestra – “a symphonic treat”
THIRD ALBUM POCKET COMPASS OUT NOW ON BASHO RECORDS
4 STARS from John Fordham at the Guardian for Pocket Compass – “Clowes’ intuitive one-twos with pianist Gwilym Simcock so closely echo Shorter and the Herbie Hancock of old that it’s almost uncanny”
4 STARS from Barry Witherden at BBC Music Magazine – “melding of the unexpected and the inexorable”
4 STARS from Matthew Wright at the Arts Desk – “Clowes’ third album condenses and refines her exquisite control of instrumental colour”
4 STARS from Selwyn Harris at Jazzwise – “this is very stylish and heartfelt new music from a rising young sax star.”
4 STARS/RECOMMENDED from Stephen Graham at marlbank – “beyond the obvious virtuosity the record contains some of the most absorbing original music in the jazz-classical idiom released this year… A fine achievement, one to add to any self-respecting list of jazz albums of the year.”
…and listed #12 in marlbank’s Jazz Albums of the Year
Jazz Views/Nick Lea – “undoubtedly a strong contender for Album of the Year”
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main photo: Dannie Price
