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A 50th anniversary celebration at Bristol St Georges of John Coltrane signing to the Impulse! label (and thus occasioning one of the greatest sequences in the history of recorded music) begins with Andy Sheppard's programme of ballads, with a specially formed band of Dan Moore on piano, Thad Kelly on double bass and Daisy Palmer on drums. As well as creating the tumultuous, sheets of sound approach that defined tenor and soprano sax playing for every generation that followed, Coltrane was also a killer ballads player, as 'Naima' and the famous Impulse! album, 'Ballads' (featuring Too Young To Go Steady, Nancy, You Don't Know What Love Is and Easy to Remember among the songs) remind us. The recordings of John Coltrane inspired Andy Sheppard to take up the saxophone, and 'Trane's mix of impassioned hard-blowing and supremely tender lyricism continues to mark his mature style....

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A 50th anniversary celebration at Bristol St Georges of John Coltrane signing to the Impulse! label (and thus occasioning one of the greatest sequences in the history of recorded music) begins with Andy Sheppard's programme of ballads, with a specially formed band of Dan Moore on piano, Thad Kelly on double bass and Daisy Palmer on drums. As well as creating the tumultuous, sheets of sound approach that defined tenor and soprano sax playing for every generation that followed, Coltrane was also a killer ballads player, as 'Naima' and the famous Impulse! album, 'Ballads' (featuring Too Young To Go Steady, Nancy, You Don't Know What Love Is and Easy to Remember among the songs) remind us. The recordings of John Coltrane inspired Andy Sheppard to take up the saxophone, and 'Trane's mix of impassioned hard-blowing and supremely tender lyricism continues to mark his mature style.

'With his delicate massaging of tonal minutiae, improvisational inventiveness and eclectic tastes, Andy Sheppard is an exciting virtuoso.' The Guardian

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