Norden Farm Jazz Club: The Simon Spillett Quartet

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Award-winning sax player returns with an evening of jazz

A musician who has worn many hats in jazz over his twenty five year career returns to Maidenhead this June. Norden Farm Jazz Club: The Simon Spillett Quartet is at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts on Friday 19 June at 8pm. Tickets are £17.50.

Simon Spillett is a multi-award winning instrumentalist (BBC Jazz Awards, British Jazz Awards, Jazz Journal’s Album of The Year). He is also a quartet and big band leader, recording artist, author, historian, record producer, archivist, magazine columnist and latterly blogger.

For all these varied skills he identifies most strongly as a powerfully swinging, straight ahead tenor saxophonist. He is capable of taking the audiences who hear him on a roller coaster ride encompassing everything from energetic bebop to heartfelt balladry. It’s in this guise that he’s become a solid fixture on the UK jazz landscape. He regularly plays sold out gigs at major festivals and the world famous Ronnie Scott’s.

Simon is a charismatic performer, gifted with a dry observational wit. He’s never lost sight of the fact that jazz is as much entertainment, as it is self-expression. Whether playing, writing or holding forth on his favourite subject UK jazz history – he’s an infectious, passionate communicator.

Simon is joined by Alex Hutton on piano, an established pianist on the London jazz scene. Alex has worked with most of the leading figures, including Jim Mullen and Pete King and won the appraisal of the late Ronnie Scott.