Soweto Kinch

T660819580
Winner of the International Saxophonist of the Year Award at the Montreux Jazz Festival and the BBC Radio Jazz Awards Rising Star in 2002.

Performer

Soweto Kinch

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Soweto Kinch Evokes the Spirit of Joe Harriott

The legacy of saxophonist Joe Harriott has been profound and lasting. Arriving in London from his native Jamaica in 1951 he embraced the London bebop scene before creating a form of free jazz in the late 1950s that paved the way for the profound changes that characterised jazz in the 1960s and beyond. His fiercely independent spirit continues to fire successive generations, explored by one of today's most inventive composer/performers, fellow saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch, last heard at Southbank Centre launching his brilliant CD The New Emancipation. Queen Elizabeth Hall