Martin Speake Quartet

Event information

Southampton Jazz Club (members)
First set - 8:30pm - 9:30pm
Second set - 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Martin Speake - alto sax
Mike Outram - guitar
Chris Hyson - double bass
Dave Wickins - drums

Martin's alto playing style has often been compared to that of the Cool School of performers such as Lee Konitz and Paul Desmond but that would be to understate his talents as both player and composer. He has many diverse CDs to his name, such as the self-explanatory “Exploring Standards” and “Charlie Parker”, as well his work with Nikki Iles in the Secret Quartet on two albums of self-composed material, 2001’s “Secret” and the follow-up last year, “Bloor Street”, of which The Scotsman said “It has been almost a decade since the Secret Quartet made their first recording, but they have reconvened in glorious fashion on this intelligent, beautifully crafted follow-up”.