Mark Hale Quartet Featuring Tom Barford (Tenor Saxophone)
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 17 Feb 2022
- Times:
- 17 Feb, 20:00
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This Thursday, Mark Hale will lead a Quartet featuring Tenor Saxophonist Tom Barford. Performing alongside Tom and Mark will be Guitarist Phil Stevenson and Double Bassist Asaph Tal. They will be playing a selection of music composed by Sonny Clark and Freddie Hubbard, as well as playing some well loved standards!
Winner of the 2017 Kenny Wheeler Prize, Tom was raised in a musical family and grew up surrounded by music, from Frank Sinatra to Louis Armstrong. He started the saxophone at the age of 9 but it wasn’t until a few years later that Will Osborne’s inspiring lessons led Tom to a specific interest in Jazz.
Tom joined the Junior Jazz Course at the Royal Academy of Music aged 16, before going on to gain a scholarship place on the Undergraduate Jazz Programme at the Academy in 2013 and earning a First Class Hons degree in 2017. During his time at the Academy, Tom has slowly become recognised as one of the most exciting young players emerging on the scene. Tom released his Kenny Wheeler Prize album BLOOMER on Edition Records back in 2018. Tom also enjoys co-leading the exciting new band AuB- a quartet featuring Alex Hitchcock, James Maddren, and Ferg Ireland who released their debut album on Edition Records in May 2020.
Previous performances have included Ronnie Scott’s, Jimmy Glass Jazz Club (tour of Spain with Alberto Palau’s Flight Mode), The Royal Albert Hall, (BBC Proms, Ronnie Scott’s 60th Anniversary concert), tour of France with the Fabrice Tarel Quartet, Turner Sims Concert Hall, Kings Place, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Brecon Jazz Festival, The Vortex, and Pizza Express Soho among others.