About this Event

Damon Brown International Quartet

Damon Brown (UK) tpt, Paul Kirby (Sc) pno, Sean Pentland (US) bass, Manuel Weyand (Ger) drs

Damon Brown is one of the UK’s leading jazz trumpet players and composers. Born in Manchester he studied the trumpet at the Leeds College of Music and London’s Guildhall School of Music. In the mid 90’s his first jazz group, the Damon Brown Quintet, and toured the UK, Europe and Japan. With them, he launched his debut album ‘A Rhythm Indicative’ in 1998. He has since confirmed his place as composer, player and band leader playing alongside some of the biggest names in contemporary straight-ahead jazz, from Alan Barnes to Don Weller and beyond.

A string of successful recordings in the last decade have cemented his reputation further and his collaborations with iconic tenor sax player Steve Grossman have been hugely popular with jazz audiences and critics alike. In addition to working with his quintet Damon has diversified his writing and playing into other formats. In 2007 the group Killer Shrimp, which he co-leads with Ed Jones, won Best Live Jazz Group at the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Their first CD, Sincerely Whatever, was nominated for Best Jazz CD of the Year. The second album, Tales from the Baltic Wharf, was released in 2010.

Damon’s international outlook is strongly reflected in tonight’s band featuring top line players from all four corners of the globe.

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‘… a bright, gleaming tone, a superbly poised attack, and a fine rhythmic sense that paces high long notes, stuttery phrases and sudden foot-on-the-gas accelerations against each other in eloquent conjunction’ – John Fordham, the Guardian