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Paul Booth: Travel Sketches

Read "Travel Sketches" reviewed by Chris May


The intense media interest surrounding the rise of the British woke jazz movement is welcome, but it is increasingly monopolising local bandwidth. Great British jazz which adheres more closely to the founding American tradition is becoming sidelined. Babies and bathwater come to mind. One of the few British labels looking at the 360-degree picture is Ubuntu Music, on which tenor saxophonist Paul Booth's Travel Sketches is released. Ubuntu—the label's name is taken from the Southern African word meaning ...

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Paul Booth: Trilateral

Read "Trilateral" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


For some people the Big 4-0 is the key, for others it's the Big 5-0 or 6-0 or 7-0. For saxophonist Paul Booth it was his forthcoming 33rd birthday that proved to be a cause for reflection. As the day loomed in 2010, Booth was already thinking about a trio record with bass and drums. The apparent ever-presence of the number 3--"most everywhere I turned"--made Booth think again. The result is Trilateral, an album that is inspired by the number ...

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Paul Booth: No Looking Back

Read "No Looking Back" reviewed by John Barron


As a sideman, British saxophonist Paul Booth has quite an impressive résumé. Since graduating with honors from London's Royal Academy of Music, the in-demand Booth has performed with the likes of Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton and the touring company of Riverdance. On No Looking Back, Booth takes on a lead role with strength and conviction, as a first-rate soloist and inventive composer.

Booth's tenor saxophone dances gracefully around the frenetically paced title track. The tune's jagged rhythmic structure--moving back and ...

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Recording

Trumpeter Ryan Quigley To Release "What Doesn't Kill You" September 9 Featuring Paul Booth, Steve Hamilton, Michael Janisch, Clarence Penn

Trumpeter Ryan Quigley To Release "What Doesn't Kill You" September 9 Featuring Paul Booth, Steve Hamilton, Michael Janisch, Clarence Penn

Source: Emma Perry Publicity

Enjoying a career which includes key roles with prominent UK symphony orchestras and big bands, plus recording/touring projects with Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, Tom Jones and Randy Brecker (to name but a few), trumpeter and composer/arranger Ryan Quigley now unveils his ten-track album What Doesn’t Kill You—a quintet release with Paul Booth (tenor sax, flutes), Steve Hamilton (piano, Fender Rhodes), Michael Janisch (double bass) and Clarence Penn (drums). The album will be supported by a tour featuring special guest pianist ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

For The Dreamers

Ubuntu Music
2024

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View from Above

Ubuntu Music
2023

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Travel Sketches

Ubuntu Music
2019

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Trilateral

Pathway Recordings
2012

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No Looking Back

Basho Records
2008

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Everyday Hero

From: For The Dreamers
By Paul Booth

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