Jazz Club hosts Christian Brewer

You are being invited by Sherborne Jazz club to join them for a free mince pie at their last gig of 2004 at The Plume of Feathers in Sherborne this Saturday (8:00pm on December 11th).

You can hear one of the country's most exciting young alto players: Christian Brewer and his highly-praised London-based band.



Some time ago Christian sent the club his debut album to check over and they were mightily impressed.

So was Ian Carr, evidently, because this is what he wrote:
"This is a truly superlative debut, the standard of playing is phenomenal. Brewer is a virtuoso alto saxophonist with a glowing, lyrical sound and is also an excellent composer. His musicians are the "Young Lions" of the London jazz scene.... There's a great variety of music, with interesting structure and hair-raising solos."

That was a couple of years ago and since then it has been difficult to pin Christian down as he has been so much in demand at Ronnie Scott's and all over Europe.

It should be an evening of great music! The line-up is:

Christian Brewer on alto sax
Leon Greening on piano
Phill Donkin or Mick Coady on double bass
Tristan Mailliot on drums.

Do check out their website at http://www.sherbornejazz.org.uk where you'll see they have an exciting programme of events in 2005: more first-rate jazz performances; jam sessions and a weekend workshop for players in March.