I'm very happy to announce that Alex Davis, our bass player for the Abram Wilson Quartet has been accepted into two exceptional conservatoires in London - Trinity School of Music and Royal Academy School of Music! We're all really excited for him as he has made phenomenal progress and I'm sure will continue to do so. Check out this video which features Alex on our recent performance which generated rave reviews this week. Our fourth review of the gig can be read below, bringing us to the end of an incredibly prosperous year! Congrats to Alex and Happy Holidays to all!
REVIEW: Sebastian Scotney for LondonJazz - Dec. 18, 2011
PHOTOS: Ben Amure
On Saturday I was at Abram Wilson's "New Orleans Christmas," bringing good music and a thoroughly good and warm vibe to Kings Place Hall One, with Jamaican vocal legend Myrna Hague, highly impressive Birmingham pianist Reuben James, Alex Davis on bass and guest drummer Jason Marsalis, joined at the end by Wilson's regular drummer Dave Hamblett. They were playing new music, and the confidence and the extroversion grew righly, greeably, through the course of the evening. Everything Wilson does with this group is based on dialogue and communication rather than display, and is all the better for that. As MC, poet, singer, composer (perhaps above all as composer), and as an ebullient presence on the London scene, we are truly blessed to have our very own resident New Orleans trumpeter.
