“This album just gets better and better the more I listen to it. Invigorating stuff from an exciting quartet. One can only surmise there be great things ahead for AuB."
- UK Vibe
Join us to enjoy a night of innovation with AuB: a London-based twin-tenor quartet led by two young, ambitious saxophonists - Royal Academy alumni, Tom Barford and Alex Hitchcock, both of whom have seen success with their solo works as well - intent on doing things differently.
Alex says: “We tried from the start to find a radically new, ambitious approach to the quartet and a unique identity, playing to and combining both of our strengths.”
The results are uniquely enthralling, the pair integrating, interweaving and overlapping the output of their respective instruments - this complex interplay offset by hospitably catchy hooks, each track just as gratifying to the totally untrained ear as to that of the technically attentive anorak - though they never compete to be heard, instead consistently collaborative, committed to allowing one another the necessary space for the steady ebb and flow of improvisational exploration.
Their self-titled debut album was released on Edition Records last year to unanimously positive reviews and they’re about to start work on their second with a new cast of collaborators. As such, for this particular performance, Alex and Tom will be joined by special guests Jasper Høiby on bass and Marc Michel on drums.
Alex Hitchcock // Tenor Saxophone
Tom Barford // Tenor Saxophone
Jasper Høiby // Bass
Marc Michel // Drums
“An object lesson in how two high-output creative minds can operate in the same sonic bailiwick without getting in each other’s way… there’s a warm, inclusive spirit at work that doesn’t compromise the fierce artistic vision”
- Jazzwise Magazine
“The rhythm section is tough, the material is engaging, and, above all, Hitchcock and Barford's solos are full of surprising twists and turns. Both players have bright futures, together and separately.”
- All About Jazz
"They combine fierce, virtuoso improvisations, electronic elements and collaboratively constructed compositions."
- London Jazz
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