Just announced: NEW LIVE DATES for 2008
Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia Japan 16th-20th Feb
Bishops Stortford 24th Feb
Ronnie Scott's March 2nd
and live dates in April, Germany March 5th , Premiere of Barbara Thompson's Piano Concerto, "Scat" at Cadogan Hall. London
Latest Albums:
Colosseum Live '05
Never Say
Goodbye
Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia >>
"...this music never seems only to appeal to the intellect
but is always sincere and aims at the heart”
Manuel Weber, Lübecker Nachrichten, 05.11.2005
I was delighted but also apprehensive
when Rob Buckland contacted me and offered a commission
to write a work for the Apollo Saxophone Quartet - however,
the first quartet almost wrote itself and I enjoyed the
experience so much I wrote another two! The album is the
result.
Geoff
Brown’s review in "The Times" of a recent concert read:
"Jazz rhythms met minimalism in a lyrical embrace, motifs and
patterns intertwined and chased tails in music instantly attractive,
but never vacuous. Allied to the music’s ebullience came
the phenomenal skill of the Apollo four. Thompson’s writing
made their fingers scamper off their knuckles in search of
new swoops and gurgles, or the silkiest transformation from
furnace blast to the softest whisper this side of the Milky
Way."
