Bristol-based saxophonist Alex Merritt has been given a unique honour. He has been commissioned by Jordi Pujol, the founder of Fresh Sounds Records in Barcelona, to record and produce a double album […]
Yetii (The Greenbank, Easton, Bristol. 8 September 2022. Live review by Mike Collins) A Thursday at the end of summer, and Summer, had an elegiac air, a hymn-like harmony, alluring, unexpected shifts in […]
Mind-Ear-Ladder is the debut album from the quintet co-led by saxophonist Alex Merritt and trumpeter Steve Fishwick, (Fresh Sound New Talent). The album puts a new spin on a classic jazz sound […]
Masabumi Kikuchi – Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording (Red Hook Records 1001. Album review by Alex Merritt) Masabumi Kikuchi (1939- 2015), also known as ‘Poo’ (from his Japanese name Poo Sun), was […]
“I am hoping that “The Shed With Alex” will continue to prove a useful platform and great resource for graduate students and professionals alike, for a long time to come, (even after […]
Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren (Cardiff University Concert Hall. 11 November 2020. Review by Sam Norris) Few names in British jazz guarantee quality quite like those of pianist Huw Warren and tenor […]
Having gathered around him some of today’s finest young players based in Europe and the US, the London-based composer and tenor saxophonist Alex Merritt has spent the past week touring some of […]
