RACHEL MUSSON QUARTET

Rachel Musson - Sax
Elliot Galvin  - Piano
James Opstad - Double Bass
Mark Sanders - Drums

Doors Open 7pm / Performance Starts at 7.30pm

The acclaimed saxophonist and composer Rachel Musson brings a new quartet line up to The Bristol Music Club featuring the superbly gifted pianist Elliot Galvin (Shabaka Hutchings, Norma Winstone, Marius Neset, Dinosaur, Mark Lockheart), bassist James Opstad (best known for his work with the experimental music ensemble, Apartment House) and the internationally renowned drummer and percussionist Mark Sanders (Evan Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Roswell Rudd, Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall and many more).
This quartet brings together four of the most inventive musical voices on the UK scene for what promises to be a fascinating evening blending composition and improvisation.

RACHEL MUSSON is a UK based saxophonist, improviser and composer with a growing reputation in Europe and the States. She is a current (2024-2027) recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Composer award. She has spent the last decade immersed in improvised music, and has also gradually been introducing composed elements into her work, drawing on text, field recordings and processing sounds. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, and works regularly with Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas, Hannah Marshall, Julie Kjaer, Corey Mwamba, Olie Brice, Alex Ward and Alex Hawkins, amongst others. She features on several releases, including a Nonet featuring her composition 'I Went This Way' (on the New York based 577 Records), two with Shifa, featuring Pat Thomas and Mark Sanders, (577 Records), one with Mark Sanders and John Edwards (Two Rivers Records), a Trio with Liam Noble and Mark Sanders (Babel), and Corey Mwamba (Takuroku).

"A free-improviser sensitive to melody-like narrative and dramatic pacing" - John Fordham, The Guardian

Tickets are also available at TREBLEROCK Guitar Shop, 52 The Mall in Clifton Village.


FRINGE JAZZ, Wednesdays at 7PM at The BRISTOL MUSIC CLUB, 76 St Paul's Road, Clifton. Bristol BS8 1LP