Simon Spillett and Alan Barnes Quintet

Simon Spillett – Tenor Saxophone

Alan Barnes – Saxophones

Pete Billington – Piano

Alec Dankworth – Bass

Pete Cater – Drums

Co-led by two of the UK’s foremost, award-winning jazz saxophonists, and featuring an all-star rhythm section of Pete Billington, Alec Dankworth and Pete Cater, this is a band dedicated to the art of hard swinging, straight-ahead jazz.

Expect to hear nods to two previous saxophone pairings (Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes) together with material that makes the most of Alan Barnes’ talents as a clarinettist and composer.

If you like jazz that not only retains but positively extolls the many virtues of swing/mainstream and bop, this band is guaranteed to delight, and all this is tied together by the co-leaders’ contrasting wit!