CHRIS BISCOE QUARTET ON TOUR
IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH 2010
DUO WITH CELLIST BEN DAVIS

The CHRIS BISCOE QUARTET with Tony Kofi (alto sax), Larry Bartley (bass), and Stu Butterfield(drums) is on tour in February and March 2010 playing music from the CD Gone in the Air – The Music of Eric Dolphy. Featuring new arrangements of music by Dolphy, and composers with whom he worked (Mingus, Monk, Oliver Nelson), this is a timely exploration of the legacy of a remarkable jazz pioneer.

In February Chris is reunited with Mercury Award nominee and leader of the Basquiat strings Ben Davis for a duo performance featuring the unusual but highly effective combination of cello and reeds. On the same bill Chris plays music by British saxophone legend Mike Osborne with John Edwards and Tony Marsh.
A new CD to be released in spring 2010 on Trio will feature the music of Charles Mingus.

"Gone In The Air" sound samples can be heard here

Chris Biscoe is also on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/chrisbiscoe

Reviews:
Big, robust soloing from Biscoe and Kofi, with great support from Bartley and Butterfield. These guys are swinging hard. It’s an honest tribute to Eric Dolphy and the music is played with passion and authenticity.
Julian Joseph, Jazz Line-Up, BBC Radio 3, 14.06.2008.

....an exhilarating, heady rush of music....There are few sounds in the music as distinctive and joyously vibrant as a Dolphy-led band in full flight, and Biscoe's quartet .... recapture the fiercely life-affirming quality of the great man's manner perfectly, Biscoe all daring intervallic leaps and wailing urgency, the intelligently complementary Kofi his astringent but powerful self, Bartley lithe and propulsive, Butterfield briskly, bouncily percussive in the best 1960s manner but none the less himself throughout. Strongly recommended.
Chris Parker, Vortex Website, May 2008

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"The Baritone Saxophone, Chris Biscoe" 1990. Painting by Kate Westbrook © www.westbrookjazz.co.uk 117 x 153cm oil on canvas. Click on image for larger view.

CHRIS BISCOE BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.

Leonard Feather/Ira Gitler - The Biographical Dictionary of Jazz (Oxford Press)
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (MacMillan)
The Virgin Encyclopaedia of Jazz (Virgin)
Jazz The Rough Guide (Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestley (Penguin Books, 1995 and 2000 editions)

DISCOGRAPHY - RECENT RECORDINGS
Chris Biscoe Quartet - Gone in the Air (includes sound samples)
Kate & Mike Westbrook - Art Wolf
Kate Westbrook - Cuff Clout
The New Westbrook Orchestra - Chanson Irresponsable
Liam Noble - In the Meantime
The Westbrook Trio - L'ascenseur/The Lift
Harry Beckett - Before and After
Orchestre National de Jazz - Deep Feelings
Orchestre National de Jazz - Passages
Orchestre National de Jazz - ONJ Express
Harry Beckett - A Tribute to Charles Mingus
John Williams - Baritone Band
Mike Westbrook - Glad Day
Mike Westbrook Orchestra - Bar Utopia
Grand Union Orchestra - The Rhythm of the Tides
Josefina Cupido - One woman, one drum
George Russell Living Time Orchestra - It's About Time
Mike Westbrook - Smith's Academy
The Dedication Orchestra - Ixesha
Full Monte - Spark in the Dark
Didier Levallet Tentet - Generations
The Dedication Orchestra - Spirits Rejoice

A more complete Discography can be viewed on the Biography/Discography page.

FOR BOOKINGS, MORE INFORMATION, OR A RECORDING, CONTACT: 
Chris Biscoe: email: biscoechris@waitrose.com 

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