Live jazz at The EDT

Originally from Perth but now firmly established as one of London’s top saxophonists, Brandon Allen brings his trio to the EDT performing a tribute to the great Gene Ammons. Gene Ammons was one of the founders of the Chicago style of tenor saxophone playing but was often in the shadow of his tenor-playing contemporaries, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, and Sonny Stitt.

While adept at the technical aspects of bebop, in particular its love of harmonic substitutions, Ammons more than Young, Webster or Parker, stayed in touch with the commercial blues and R&B of his day. The soul jazz movement of the mid-1960s, often using the combination of tenor saxophone and Hammond B3 electric organ, counts him as a founder.Brandon will be joined by Liam Dunachie (organ) and Matt Home (drums)

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