Emily Saunders at

EmilySaundersBand featuring the renowned saxophonist Tony Kofi, "Kofi resoundingly proves that the jazz past and the present are inseparable" (The Guardian) along with Nick Walters, trumpet; Bruno Heinen, keys; Larry Bartley, bass; Jon Scott, drums.

Emily's band, fresh from her Pizza Express Dean Street Cd launch gig, play tunes from the cd and new material, balancing her arrangements of exciting Brazilian rhythms by composers Hermeto Pascoal and Airto Moreira with her own poetic and dark alluring songs. Her repertoire is both individual and ethereal, creating complex soundscapes of colours drawing her audience into another land. Emily uses her voice as a true improvisationalist – sensual and engaging, enriched by a distinctive instrumental approach to sound and invention....

read more

EmilySaundersBand featuring the renowned saxophonist Tony Kofi, "Kofi resoundingly proves that the jazz past and the present are inseparable" (The Guardian) along with Nick Walters, trumpet; Bruno Heinen, keys; Larry Bartley, bass; Jon Scott, drums.

Emily's band, fresh from her Pizza Express Dean Street Cd launch gig, play tunes from the cd and new material, balancing her arrangements of exciting Brazilian rhythms by composers Hermeto Pascoal and Airto Moreira with her own poetic and dark alluring songs. Her repertoire is both individual and ethereal, creating complex soundscapes of colours drawing her audience into another land. Emily uses her voice as a true improvisationalist – sensual and engaging, enriched by a distinctive instrumental approach to sound and invention.

'She has a fascinating control of her voice, which can be both sensual and exciting simultaneously, at all tempi.' (Tony Jameson)

'..her musicianship is of an unusually high calibre' (Tim Whitehead.)

show less