Tommaso Starace Quartet

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Saxophonist Tommaso Starace has played in all the top clubs and festivals including London Jazz Festival, Brecon Jazz Festival, Pizza Express Soho, Blue Note Milano, Nuoro/Berchidda Jazz Festival, MITO Festival, Oxford Jazz Festival, Providencia International Jazz Festival Santiago del Chile.

Performing standards and compositions by the likes of Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Garrett, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, tonight he will be playing with legendary bass guitarist Laurence Cottle piano virtuoso John Crawford and thrilling propulsion by top British drummer Chris Nickolls. Unmissable!

‘…Anyone who has experienced a glissando of language on the streets of Italy will understand the utter exuberance with which Italian-born Starace attacks and runs with the language of music’.

Paul Medley – The Oxford Times

‘…The declamatory fierceness of his alto often calls Sonny Criss or Jackie McLean to mind’.

Chris Parker ,Londonjazz.blogspot.com