Tom Ridout Debut Album Launch \"No Excuses\"

Presented by: Vortex Jazz

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0	LONDON: Vortex
P	Tuesday 2nd January, 2018
N	8:00pm

Event information

Award winning saxophonist, recorder player, composer and arranger Tom Ridout was predicted by Jazzwise Magazine in 2012 as an upcoming jazz musician to watch out for. A recent graduate from the prestigious Royal Academy of Music, finalist in the BBC Young Musician Jazz Award 2016,Tom is a prolific composer who fronts his own bands playing his original compositions.

The No Excuses band features an up to 13 piece ensemble consisting of the Quintet (sax/recorder, guitar, piano, bass, drums) with added second guitar, string quartet and brass trio (flugelhorn, french horn and trombone).The influences for this album come from a wide range of musical sources including; jazz, folk, 60s rock/pop and 20th century tonal classical.

The first set will be played by the Quintet and the second set will be a live rendition of the album, from start to finish, with the whole band.

The band line-up for tonight is:

Tom Ridout – Saxophones and Recorders

Billy Marrows– Guitars

Will Barry – Piano and Rhodes

Flo Moore – Electric Basses

Phelan Burgoyne – Drums

Nick Fitch – Guitar

Anastasia Stahlmann – Lead Violin

Dom Ingham– 2nd Violin

Barbara Gumenaite – Viola

Cecilia Bignall – ‘Cello

Alexandra Ridout – Flugel and Trumpet

Anna Drysdale – French Horn

Elliot Pooley – Trombone