Time: 8.00 – 11.00pm

Tickets: £12

Personnel

Benn Clatworthy (Tenor Sax & Flute)
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Tonight, our annual welcome back to tenor ace Benn Clatworthy . . Raised in London he has been a resident of Los Angeles since 1980. As a teenager Benn took sax lessons from Ronnie Scott who recommended him to Berklee College, Boston. Benn’s distinctive, muscular saxophone and flute feature in his unique arrangements of standards from Cole Porter to Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane to the Beatles.

After a stint with the iconic Horace Silver band Benn moved to the US and has gone on to establish himself as a musician of impressive pedigree and talent, working with the likes of Billy Higgins, Lionel Hampton , Cab Calloway & Cedar Walton.

A fixture in Los Angeles area clubs since 1980, Benn Clatworthy was originally heavily influenced by late-’50s John Coltrane, but would soften his tone and sometimes sound a little like Warne Marsh with touches of Sonny Rollins.

Tonight Benn will be performing with his quartet a mix of classic, post-bop jazz standards and material from his latest recording “The Pursuit”.

A powerful and impressive player.  Benn has released eleven CDs to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic..

Benn Clatworthy is a truly impressive modern jazz tenor player who was first brought to our attention by the late Ronnie Scott.

“While twenty years in Los Angeles seem to have had little effect on expatriate Brit Benn Clatworthy’s Bow Bells speech, his tenor sax playing has acquired strong US characteristics, not least a tough personal tone and a wide emotional range that extends from ballad tenderness to gladiatorial torrents of controlled aggression at fast tempos.” Chris Lee “…Scattering notes around the room with a deliciously dry loquacity in a fast-moving hard-bob manner” John Fordham

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