Hannah Horton Quartet, 28th October 2022.

Hannah Horton, tenor and baritone sax. John Crawford, piano. Rob Statham, bass. Steve Taylor, drums. The best saxophonists are able to display the instrument’s many, quite contrasting facets: urgent and piercing with tender; soulfully expressive with punchy and raw; joyous with wistfully melancholic.  But the real test of a jazz performer is whether she can…

Shirley Smart Trio, 11th February 2022

Shirley Smart, cello.John Crawford, piano.Demi Garcia Sabat, drums and percussion. No one with even a glancing familiarity with jazz would have any difficulty naming numerous bass players; and one probably wouldn’t need to strain to name half a dozen violinists. But cellists? It’s an enduring mystery why an instrument held dear by countless music lovers…

Sam Leak’s ‘Adrift’, 18th May 2018

John Crawford, piano Guillermo Hill, guitar Richard Adler, bass Andres Ticino, percussion Simon Pearson, drums What we have come to think of as jazz is a hybrid of diverse musical cultures; and the key to its longevity and vitality is that it has become one of the world’s great improvising traditions, always keen to venture…