Leading UK Saxophonist to Close ‘Kind of Jazz’ Season

Music Spoken Here presents: Alex Hitchcock Quartet
The Marr’s Bar, 12 Pierpoint Street, Worcester WR1 1TA
Thursday 25^th June, 7:30pm doors for 8pm start

The progressive, fortnightly ‘Kind of Jazz’ series of gigs programmed by Music Spoken Here at The Marr’s Bar in Worcester, draws to a close with its final event before the summer break. The closing show, on Thursday 25^th June, features saxophonist and Ivor Novello-nominated composer Alex Hitchcock, described by the BBC as “leading the charge…of new jazz music being created in the UK” and “an astonishingly quick thinking virtuoso” by Jazzwise Magazine.

London-born Hitchcock, who has lived in New York for the last couple of years but is now returning to the UK, was the second saxophonist to appear on the Music Spoken Here programme back in November 2022, with the jazz-funk band Resolution 88. The following year, he mentored Birmingham-based young saxophonist Dan Lockheart through the Jazz Central Mentoring Scheme, culminating in a performance of Lockheart’s compositions developed through the scheme at the Marr’s Bar, with Hitchcock featured in Lockheart’s quintet.

This time, following sold-out album launches in New York and London, he’s back with his own cutting edge quartet performing music from his new album, Letters From Afar, a sonic correspondence across emotional, geographic, and artistic distances”

The quartet features Will Barry on piano, Freddie Jensen on bass Ananda Brandão on drums. Doors open at 7:30pm with DJ Moore Fe Jazz warming up the house ready for the Alex Hitchcock Quartet to hit the stage around 8pm. Admission is complementary for Music Spoken Here Club Members and £15 on the door for non-members.

The ‘Kind of Jazz’ programme will resume with three gigs in September featuring innovative jazz fusion from young Birmingham-based band Boomslang on Thursday 10^th, Brazilian artist and producer Frederico Heliodoro on Thursday 17^th and the Neil Angilley Trio playing Latin-infused grooves on 24^th. Music Spoken Here are also hosting a special one-off Sunday prog-rock gig from Gateshead-based Living In Shadows on Sunday 20^th September.

For more information go to the Music Spoken Here website.