Kevin Figes – Wallpaper Music Pig Records, PIG11 (CD review by Mike Collins) Wallpaper Music, released at the end of 2021, is a tour-de-force from multi-instrumentalist and composer Kevin Figes, conjuring a […]
Kevin Figes – ‘Wallpaper Music’
Kevin Figes – Wallpaper Music
Bristol-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Kevin Figes’ new album, Wallpaper Music, with eight original compositions written during lockdown is released this Friday 3 December, with a launch gig at the Vortex in […]
A Celebration of Keith Tippett (various venues, Bristol, 1-2 October)
The unfailingly creative pianist and composer Keith Tippett, who died last Summer, worked in a remarkable range of styles and settings over 50 years of music-making. So the idea of an event […]
Kevin Figes Quartet – “Changing Times”
Kevin Figes Quartet – Changing Times (Pig Records PIG10. CD review by Dick Hovenga*) Saxophonist/flautist Kevin Figes is a distinctive figure in UK jazz. He is constantly setting himself new challenges as […]
Kevin Figes (new album “Changing Times” for release on 12 June)
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and teacher Kevin Figes has been a key figure on Bristol’s eclectic jazz scene since the early 2000s. But this month’s quartet album, Changing Times, unveils new facets of an […]
In lockdown with… saxophonist Kevin Figes
Composer, sax and flute player, and record label founder Kevin Figes talks to us about the music and people who helped shape him and the ways he’s getting creative in lockdown… First […]
