AUB
Join us to enjoy a night of innovation with AuB: a London-based twin-tenor quartet led by two young, ambitious saxophonists – Royal Academy alumni, Tom Barford and Alex Hitchcock, both of whom have seen success with their solo works as well – intent on doing things differently.
Alex says: “We tried from the start to find a radically new, ambitious approach to the quartet and a unique identity, playing to and combining both of our strengths.”
The results are uniquely enthralling, the pair integrating, interweaving and overlapping the output of their respective instruments – this complex interplay offset by hospitably catchy hooks, each track just as gratifying to the totally untrained ear as to that of the technically attentive anorak – though they never compete to be heard, instead consistently collaborative, committed to allowing one another the necessary space for the steady ebb and flow of improvisational exploration.
Their self-titled debut album was released on Edition Records last year to unanimously positive reviews and they’re about to start work on their second with a new cast of collaborators. As such, for this particular performance, Alex and Tom will be joined by special guests Jasper Høiby on bass and Marc Michel on drums.
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