Emily Saunders at PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho

To launch her new album, Emily leads an explosive line-up of two trumpets, featuring Byron Wallen "one of the most innovative, exciting and original trumpet players alive" (Jazzwise Magazine) and Nick Walters, Bruno Heinen (piano), Larry Bartley (bass), Jon Scott (drums) and Bosco de Oliviera (percussion).

Emily Saunders's debut album opens the ear and the mind. While staying deeply true to her own unique sound, she also evokes the brilliance of the jazz greats. She uses her voice as a true improvisationalist - sensual and engaging, enriched by a distinctive instrumental approach to sound and invention....

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To launch her new album, Emily leads an explosive line-up of two trumpets, featuring Byron Wallen "one of the most innovative, exciting and original trumpet players alive" (Jazzwise Magazine) and Nick Walters, Bruno Heinen (piano), Larry Bartley (bass), Jon Scott (drums) and Bosco de Oliviera (percussion).

Emily Saunders's debut album opens the ear and the mind. While staying deeply true to her own unique sound, she also evokes the brilliance of the jazz greats. She uses her voice as a true improvisationalist - sensual and engaging, enriched by a distinctive instrumental approach to sound and invention.

She balances her arrangements of exciting Brazilian rhythms by composers Hermeto Pascoal, Egberto Gismonti and Airto Moreira with poetic and dark alluring songs.

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