Dave O’Higgins: The Open Fund for Music Creators
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Dave O'Higgins Quartet UK Tour 2017
Saxophonist Dave O’Higgins is one of the the most prolific contemporary jazz musicians in the UK, with 19 albums released as leader since 1993. The 2017 tour is the biggest UK tour undertaken by a sax-led group this millennium, running at 34 dates at the time of going to press.
With Graham Harvey (piano), Geoff Gascoyne (bass) and Sebastian de Krom (drums), Dave plays some of the most swinging music you will hear today. Straight ahead jazz firmly in the harmonic and melodic tradition. They will be promoting a new CD, It’s Always 9.30 in Zog (JVG Productions)
Having studied music at The City University in London, Dave’s first big breaks were with John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, and Icelandic jazz-funk band, Mezzoforte. As well as the solo projects, Dave is a busy guest soloist across the globe, runs a small jazz recording studio, and teaches at the London College of Creative Media.
Some of the artists Dave has worked with: Roadside Picnic, Jason Rebello (produced by Wayne Shorter), Joey Calderazzo, Joe Locke, Dave Kikoski, Eddie Gomez, Adam Nussbaum, John Dankworth, Cleo Laine, Frank Sinatra, Chico Chagas, Jimmy Smith, Ray Charles, Martin Taylor, Jim Mullen, Kyle Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Itchy Fingers, Stan Tracey, BBC Big Band, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra, Eric Alexander, Phil Dwyer, Grant Stewart, Brubecks Play Brubeck, Darius Brubeck Quartet.
“O’Higgins plays with quite exceptional fluency and his fund of ideas never runs out.” The OBSERVER