Go West for Sax Appeal!

Here we have a contender for the "Glowing Review Of The Year" award! Writing in The Independent on 29th April 2007, Phil Johnson reviews the Andy Hague Quintet's gig at Jazzland, Swansea, and piles on the praise for each member. Fortunately we see them often in Bristol and know that this praise is not unwarranted. The Quintent are currently touring with dates around the country in May.

Here we have a contender for the "Glowing Review Of The Year" award! Writing in The Independent on 29th April 2007, Phil Johnson reviews the Andy Hague Quintet's gig at Jazzland, Swansea, and piles on the praise for each member. Fortunately we see them often in Bristol and know that this praise is not unwarranted. The Quintent are currently touring with dates around the country in May.

"When it comes to fame in music there are only so many places on the bus, and in British jazz the service has been cancelled for most of the last two decades. "There'll be another one along in a minute" fails to convince if you've been standing in the rain for half a lifetime. When the saxophonist Andy Sheppard won a national jazz competition and a contract with Island Records 20 years ago, his young contemporaries in Bristol could reasonably expect to be next in the queue. The trumpeter and composer Andy Hague, right, with whom Sheppard continues to play locally, was a young bandleader with a hard-driving, Blue Note-styled quintet and a devoted following of fans. His colleague Ben Waghorn, a teenage tenor sax player with a precociously soulful sound, was surely another Sheppard or Tommy Smith in the making."

Read the rest of Phil Johnson's glowing review of the Andy Hague Quintet here .