On Monday at 11pm BBC Radio 3’s Jazz Now are broadcasting highlights from my album launch, a little earlier this month. It’ll be available online shortly after as well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gsl
It was a goodun, so I hope you enjoy!
Interview in the Morning Star
‘You have to embrace the unknown’
Jazz saxophonist TRISH CLOWES tells Chris Searle why she and her band My Iris are so open to experiment
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/you-have-embrace-unknown
Workshop with MY IRIS ahead of Shrewsbury gig, May 1st
Very happy to announce, with the support of Arts Council England, that MY IRIS will be hosting a workshop 6.30-7.15pm on May 1st at the Gateway, ahead of our performance at 7.45pm. Please see details below:
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Sinfonietta Short, MY IRIS news
Tomorrow sees the premiere of my Sinfonietta Short ‘Hero’ for solo bass, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta to be performed by Enno Senft. I’m really looking forward to hearing Enno perform the piece (at the World Premiere Wednesdays series) – he’s such an outrageous bass player!
In other news, today marks the 1 month countdown to the release of the new MY IRIS album ‘Ninety Degrees Gravity’… we’ve already had some great feedback (“Stunning” – Jazzwise, “Listen, and then listen again” – Fiona Talkington, “one of the most outstanding UK jazz albums to be released this year” – Marlbank) and our music video by director Rose Hendry will be released very very soon… We’ve also just added the Rochester International Jazz Festival (USA) to our tour dates…
London Sinfonietta Sound Out
I recently had the fun task of reworking themes/ideas from loads of brilliant young minds for a commission from the London Sinfonietta’s ‘Sound Out’ project. The premiere is March 16th at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London at 4pm – written for youth orchestra & soloists. Loads of other fab new music in the programme too.
Check out the link below if you’re interested…
‘Ninety Degrees Gravity’ ALBUM LAUNCH
I am very happy to announce that the new MY IRIS album (out on Basho Records in the Spring) is called ‘Ninety Degrees Gravity’ and will be launched at the Pizza Express Dean Street on May 7th 2019… Tickets HERE
Can’t wait to share more info early next year….!
Donate4Refugees Christmas e-cards
For those of you following the work of my charity Donate4Refugees, they have some excellent e-cards available for Christmas. I think this snowman is my favourite…
Merry Christmas!!
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MY IRIS Barbican gig review
MY IRIS had a great time playing at the Barbican last month for the London Jazz Festival, supporting the Avishai Cohen Trio. Ian Mann, great supporter of jazz and related musics, wrote a fab review of our contribution to the night…
“Trish Clowes remains one of the most inquisitive musicians in British jazz… She and her band won many new fans tonight thanks to the quality of their brief performance and the release of her new album will be awaited with much interest.”
Read it HERE (scroll half way down)
More MY IRIS news to come very soon…
Great write up of Emulsion VII by Ian Mann
It was an epic weekend at Emulsion VII… here’s a fab write up from the ever supportive Ian Mann: http://www.thejazzmann.com/features/article/emulsion-festival-vii-day-one-hexagon-theatre-midlands-arts-centre-birmingh/
“Emulsion may have serious aims, but as this mass performance showed it can also be great fun, with all the spectators seeming to enjoy the sense of involvement… Clowes is a born creator and a willing risk taker”
‘The Fox’ Featured On BBC Music Magazine CD
BBC Music Magazine have featured the first movement from my BBC Radio 3 commission “The Fox, the Parakeet & the Chestnut” on this month’s Cover CD. So… if you’d like a recording of this unreleased piece of music, now’s your chance! The recording features myself on soprano/tenor saxes, Mike Walker on guitar, Gwilym Simcock on piano, Calum Gourlay on bass and James Maddren on drums, with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Clark Rundell.