Alan is no stranger to the Teignmouth Festival and he previously
delighted us with his Sherlock
Holmes suite This year he will be playing with Charlie Hearnshaw
- a truly dynamic duo.
His reviews tell the full story:
"The most...Hard swinging performance came from saxophonist Alan
Barnes; a man often tagged with that rather unsexy label "Mainstream".
He went bananas in an astonishing uptempo alto solo, full of skimming
double time figures, yelping trills, Dexter Gordon warbles and swoops
across the extremes of the range, all tied to a thumping internal
groove that never wavered. It will probably turn out to be one of
the jazz solos of the year." - THE GUARDIAN
"Alan Barnes moves effortlessly from genre to genre like the
proverbial fish through water...this self-effacing poll winner is
a world-class player." -JAZZ ON CD
"Barnes is one of the brightest talents on the current jazz scene.
Quick-witted and aware, he offers most of the available reeds and
is a rewarding soloist on all of them." - JAZZ
RAG
