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Satori - Jazz Trio, Bath Central, St James Wine Vaults
When
8pm - 11pm, Tue 6th Feb
About
The St James Wine Vaults welcomes Satori - the acclaimed trio from The Saxophonist Josephine Davies, playing from their First Album.
Tickets £8/£6 concessions on the door
"A fluid, sumptuous sound" Jazzwise
Josephine has an unusual background as a jazz musician, having initially trained in classical flute and piano, then set her sights on becoming an actor. Ultimately choosing Music College instead, she remained within the classical tradition by studying alto saxophone at the Guildhall School in London, but was introduced to John Coltrane’s Love Supreme in her second year and switched her instrument to tenor sax and her enthusiasm to jazz.
Although she has since played and toured with classical saxophone quartets, trad-jazz bands, hard-bop combos, won the Perrier Young Musician Award for best small jazz combo, and also detoured into academia to attain a doctorate in existential philosophy and psychotherapy, Josephine constantly comes back to the love of expression and artistry she first experienced through the work of Coltrane, and an interest in extended free improvisation. Her contact with Guildhall continues as an ensemble and workshop leader, and through her inheritance of Tim Garland’s chair as resident tenorist and composer for the London Jazz Orchestra under the leadership of Scott Stroman. In 2016 Josephine was privileged to be a featured soloist on veteran saxophonist and composer Pete Hurt’s big band album A New Start, which received rave reviews and came second in the British Jazz Awards Best New CD.
Tickets £8/£6 concessions on the door
"A fluid, sumptuous sound" Jazzwise
Josephine has an unusual background as a jazz musician, having initially trained in classical flute and piano, then set her sights on becoming an actor. Ultimately choosing Music College instead, she remained within the classical tradition by studying alto saxophone at the Guildhall School in London, but was introduced to John Coltrane’s Love Supreme in her second year and switched her instrument to tenor sax and her enthusiasm to jazz.
Although she has since played and toured with classical saxophone quartets, trad-jazz bands, hard-bop combos, won the Perrier Young Musician Award for best small jazz combo, and also detoured into academia to attain a doctorate in existential philosophy and psychotherapy, Josephine constantly comes back to the love of expression and artistry she first experienced through the work of Coltrane, and an interest in extended free improvisation. Her contact with Guildhall continues as an ensemble and workshop leader, and through her inheritance of Tim Garland’s chair as resident tenorist and composer for the London Jazz Orchestra under the leadership of Scott Stroman. In 2016 Josephine was privileged to be a featured soloist on veteran saxophonist and composer Pete Hurt’s big band album A New Start, which received rave reviews and came second in the British Jazz Awards Best New CD.