Nubya Garcia at San Sebastian Jazz Festival at Plaza De La Trinidad (trinity Square)

A few years after publishing her first EP, Nubya’s 5ive (2017), and following her successful and acclaimed Source (2020), London-based saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia is today one of the leading lights in the resurgence of Jazz-influenced sounds in the city’s buzzing Jazz scene.

With a Guyanese mother and Trinidadian father, Nubya Garcia was born in Camden into a family of great musical tradition. She initially studied violin aged 5 and took up the saxophone at the age of 10. She studied with the pianist Nikki Yeoh at Camden Music, going on to join Gary Crosby’s Tomorrow’s Warriors and complete her training at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance....

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A few years after publishing her first EP, Nubya’s 5ive (2017), and following her successful and acclaimed Source (2020), London-based saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia is today one of the leading lights in the resurgence of Jazz-influenced sounds in the city’s buzzing Jazz scene.

With a Guyanese mother and Trinidadian father, Nubya Garcia was born in Camden into a family of great musical tradition. She initially studied violin aged 5 and took up the saxophone at the age of 10. She studied with the pianist Nikki Yeoh at Camden Music, going on to join Gary Crosby’s Tomorrow’s Warriors and complete her training at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

In addition to her solo work, Garcia is a hugely active part of London’s widespread music and Jazz community where she frequently participates in the shape of collaborations and exchanges, having worked with many luminaries of the UK’s new Jazz scene: Shabaka Hutchings, Nérija, Makaya McCraven, Moses Boyd, Sons of Kemet, The Comet is Coming, Theon Cross, Ezra Collective, Yazz Ahmed, Blue Lab Beats, Kokoroko, Maisha…

The music composed and performed by Garcia on her tenor sax can be situated at the vanguard of contemporary Jazz: it’s Jazz, and it’s from now; but to understand what this exceptional sax player does, we must talk not only about her influence today, but about the importance she gives to her roots, to her community and to the vast array of music she has listened to since her childhood, in a family, a neighbourhood and a city with a vibrant tapestry of origins and cultures including Jazz, soul, afrobeat, cumbia, funk, dubstep, reggae, Afro-Cuban and calypso sounds.

Her compositions are at once a homage, a reinvention, tradition and modernity; profound, daring, energetic, heterogeneous, almost spiritual and full of hope. Nubya Garcia is an artist who, while drawing strongly on the past, represents the present and future of Jazz.
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Nubya Garcia will perform after Abdullah Ibrahim in the same venue. The same ticket gives you the right to see both concerts.

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