Photo: Dave Hamblett

Sam Braysher Trio

Sam Braysher - alto saxophone

Andrew Robb - double bass

Alyn Cosker - drums

London-based alto saxophonist Sam Braysher has received widespread acclaim for the two albums released under his own name, both of which feature renowned international collaborators. Golden Earrings, with American pianist Michael Kanan, was described as “delightful and surprising” by Dave Gelly in the Observer, while his recent trio album with Jorge Rossy (Brad Mehldau Trio) and Tom Farmer, was praised in Jazzwise as “a triumph of intelligence and sentiment”.

For this concert, Sam is joined by the award-winning Scottish double bassist Andrew Robb. A highly in-demand sideman, Andrew was awarded 1st Prize at the European Society of Bassists Jazz Competition in 2018 and is a former BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician of the Year. Completing the band is Alyn Cosker, resident drummer with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.

The trio will look at lesser-known items from the American and jazz canon, including compositions by the likes of George Gershwin, Kurt Weill and Carlos Antonio Jobim.

Press

"I can’t think of another alto saxophonist with a sound quite like Sam Braysher’s” **** Dave Gelly, The Observer 

“Braysher's cool, modernist twist on old songs is just superb” Simon Adams, Jazz Journal

"the warm-toned young London saxophonist Sam Braysher is a prize-winning investigator of the early recordings and published music of Jerome Kern, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and many others, and imagines a new jazz closely attuned to an old world."  John Fordham, The Guardian

“Braysher’s playing is direct and unadorned, eschewing bends or vibratos but with a soft and nimble touch that delivers with respect and with space for deft interaction from his trio-mates” **** Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman