 Artist: Anna Brooks Quintet
Album: MY TIME
Price: £8.50 (ex VAT)
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  Anna Brooks - Saxophones
Alcyona Mick - Piano
Tim Crampton -Guitar
Dave Foster - Bass
Carl Hemmingsley - Drums
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An accomplished musician, Anna began playing the saxophone at the age of twelve. Anna studied as a classical saxophonist at the Birmingham Conservatoire during which time she had her first real experience of jazz and improvisation and her first opportunity to arrange music for an ensemble. Discovering that she was more interested in jazz than classical music she joined and formed various jazz bands and has performed with John Mayer's Indo-Jazz Fusions in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Denmark as well as playing with the Walsall Jazz Orchestra at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Other credits include commissions by Birmingham Jazz to compose music for Carlton's First Cut series and by the Jerwood Foundation to write for her own Jazz Quintet, performed as part of the Jerwood Rising Star series at the Cheltenham International Jazz Festival.
Since completing her first composition for jazz quintet in 2000, just before the arrival of her twins Max and Eddie, Anna has written all of the pieces for the Anna Brooks Quintet's debut album, MY TIME. Speaking about her writing, Anna says, 'Composing is relatively new to me and I am discovering more about my own musical tastes through writing, I am really enjoying it'
This talented young musician not only performs beautifully, she has written some of the most exciting and invigorating jazz compositions to have been heard in a long time.
For more information on the Anna Brooks Quintet please visit their website www.annabrooksquintet.com
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