Trish Clowes

My wonderful band were supposed to tour this month and of course, we won’t be doing that again for a while… Instead I have released a live album on Bandcamp – it’s download only, and the money comes direct to us. The recordings are from the gigs we had in Belfast and at Galway Jazz…

Dear Friends, an announcement from Punkt Birmingham HQ… The festival will be re-scheduled and Louise and I are thinking about doing some recording in the meantime… Big thanks to Chris Mapp and co for handling such a tricky situation so beautifully… Over and Out! Tx

Trish’s performance of Joe Cutler’s new saxophone concerto ‘Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii’ is now available on iplayer for a month… also featuring Ross Stanley on Hammond Organ. The orchestra are conducted by Ben Palmer. Straight after the concerto is a duo performance of ‘Abbott & Costello’ by Trish and Ross. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000czqy

‘Abbott & Costello’, my music video directed by Rose Hendry, was screened at Cannes Lions (the advertising wing of Cannes Film Festival) earlier this year as part of the VOW (The Voice of A Woman) Made By Her Showcase, and with this film Rose has been shortlisted for the VOW Awards 2019. Huge congratulations to…

Tomorrow, Emulsion goes back to the Vortex Jazz Club where it all started in 2012… with a stellar line up (see below) … we’ll playing some new music I’ve written specially for the occasion, and a version of ‘I.F.’ from my latest album ‘Ninety Degrees Gravity’… Here we are playing it in Ireland last weekend:…

Thanks to Ian Patterson for this really considered interview… talking about My Iris, my latest album, Wayne Shorter, social music, Donate4Refugees, Emulsion… loads of stuff. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/trish-clowes-sounding-colors-playing-with-gravity-trish-clowes-by-ian-patterson.php I hope you enjoy reading! 🙂

Very pleased to announce that Emulsion is going back to the Vortex for its 8th edition on October 12th! Tickets here & more info on the Emulsion website

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!

‘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