JULIAN SIEGEL - Musica d’insieme jazz
26-27 NOVEMBRE 2025 SALA TARTINI
- MERCOLEDÌ 26 10:00-13:00 / 14:30-17:30
- GIOVEDÌ 27 10:00-13:00 / 14:30-17:30
JULIAN SIEGEL is an in-demand saxophonist on the UK and European Jazz scene who has worked with many of the top fi gures in the music. He was awarded the 2007 BBC Jazz Award for Best Instrumentalist. He is currently touring with the Julian Siegel Quartet featuring pianist Liam Noble, bassist Oli Hayhurst and drummer Gene Calderazzo. The Quartet’s fi rst CD ‘Urban Theme Park’ was awarded the 2011 London Jazz Award and in February 2018 the Quartet released the album ‘VISTA’ on Whirlwind Recordings, followed up by performances at Jazz Festivals in the UK, Europe and North America.
Julian has toured and recorded with the Julian Siegel Trio with Joey Baron and Greg Cohen, US vocalist Diane Schuur’s European Quartet, UK piano legend John Taylor in trio with Italian vocalist Diana Torto, NDR BigBand, the band Partisans co-led guitarist Phil Robson and with the Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra playing the commission ‘Tales from the Jacquard’, a thirty minute suite composed for Jazz Orchestra.
Julian has toured and recorded with with many large ensembles including bands led by Kenny Wheeler, Andrew Hill, Hermeto Pascoal, Mike Gibbs, Steve Gray, Django Bates’ ‘Delightful Precipice’, Jazz Jamaica, Stan Sulzmann, Sir John Dankworth, Colin Towns, Allan Ganley, Gareth Lockrane, Hans Koller, BBC Big Band, Jason Yarde’s ‘Acoutastic Bombastic’, Nikki Iles and Hal Willner’s ‘Amarcord’ with Carla Bley and Steve Swallow.
In small band settings Julian has played with Django Bates’ ‘Human Chain’, Gary Husband’s ‘Drive’, Mulatu Astatke, Laurie Anderson, Steve Nieve, Kirk Lightsey, Norma Winstone, Nigel Kennedy, Robert Mitchell, Byron Wallen, Jason Palmer, Riccardo Chiarion ‘Waves’ with John Taylor and Diana Torto, Jeff Ballard and with Oren Marshall’s ‘Charming Transport Band’ featuring musicians from Ghana and Nigeria.
Julian has played with vocalists including Dame Cleo Laine, Beverley Knight, Liane Carroll, Cleveland Watkiss, Lauren Kinsella, Joe Lee Wilson, Stuart Staples/Tindersticks (the Julian Siegel Quartet was featured on Stuart Staples fi lm soundtrack for Claire Denis’ Un Beau Soleil Intérieur ), Amy Winehouse, Jacqueline Dankworth, Juliet Roberts, Keziah Jones,Terri Walker, Christine Tobin and punk rock legend Steve Ignorant (formerly of Crass).
In January 2021 during lockdown Julian was honoured to have been invited to play on one track on the new album by Sir John McLaughlin. The album ‘Liberation Time’ was released in June 2021 (Abstract Logix). Recorded remotely in Monaco, Paris, London and Cairo the track ‘Right Here, Right Now, Right On’ features John McLaughlin with Nicolas Viccaro (drums), Jerome Regard (bass), Julian Siegel (tenor saxophone) and Oz Ezzeldin (piano).
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