Tamar Osborn

Since graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2000 I��ve been working as a freelance saxophonist (order of preference: Baritone, Soprano, Tenor, Alto) and multi-wind specialist (clarinet, flute and related instruments such as alto flute, piccolo, bass clarinet). I work in a wide range of fields including pop/soul (Kelis UK & Europe tour 2014), theatre/dance (such as Akram Khan��s XENOS worldwide tour and the acclaimed production of FELA! at Sadler��s Wells and the National Theatre, London), TV (Jools Holland, Chris Moyles Quiz night house band, X Factor Big Band Special), world music (Afrobeat and related genres in particular, taking part in Africa Express in 2012 and 2013), improvisation with djs (using tenor sax and occasionally flute), jazz and classical groups, session recording, arranging, teaching, functions�� and to keep the creative side of things fresh I��m involved in a number of on-going projects: �C COLLOCUTOR (my own project �C instrumental modal music with jazz and global influences) -DELE SOSIMI AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA (check out the Afrobeat Vibration nights for one of the best live music experiences in London!) -SARATHY KORWAR (jazz with Indian and electronic influences) -THE FONTANELLES (an afrobeat-ethio-funk-dub offshoot from the Fela! production) -EMANATIVE (space jazz) -JESSICA LAUREN (jazz groove) -1201_ALARM (science-inspired!) -ELIA & THE LOW TEARS (soulful funky pop) Other guest, occasional and past projects include Hackney Colliery Band, Yuriy Galkin Nonet, The Soothsayers, Lokkhi Terra (Cuba meets Bangladesh), the John Bennett Band (jazz funk big band), Oddjob (afro-latin-funk), Mezzowave (electronica-soul), Kita Steuer��s Samba Soul Transatlantico (Brazilian Samba-Rock), Stadtpark (folk-jazz), Lisa Lore (nu-blues and spoken word), Chagall Illuminated (animation and live & electronic music collaboration with Max Reinhardt and Sophie Solomon) and Vent Saxophone Quartet (contemporary classical). I have been lucky enough to travel all over the world thanks to music, including performing with the fantastic German/Indian group Taal Tantra with table maestro Tanmoy Bose in Kolkata in 2005, playing at Cheick Tidiane Seck��s Jam��Sahel 2007 (www.jamsahel.org) in Paris (thanks to Roy with Chameleoneye), and improvising with fire-dancers in Bangladesh.

The Celtic Wheel Of The Year Suite

By Josephine Davies

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Eos (summer solstice); Lammas; Mabon; Samhain; Gaia��s Breath (winter solstice); Imbolc; Ostara; Beltane.

Flock II

By Bex Burch

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Druidstone Incantation; Turned Skyward; Cat��s Paws Effect; Meet Your Shadow; Large Magellanic Cloud; No One Is Spared Who Goes Down The Deep Well; Dance Until You Shatter Yourself; A Thousand Miles Lost; Capillary Waves; Edge Of Empty.

Gira

By Marcelo Frota

Label: Batov Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Para; Rio; Passo De Avarandar; Oqueeei; Jao; My Mind; Beija Flor; Summer Interlude; A Walk In The Park; Gira.

City Swamp

By Jake Long

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ideological Rubble; Celestial Soup; Swamp; Silhouette.

Flock: Flock II

by Chris May
October 11, 2024

Flock is composed of five of the most venturesome musicians in British jazz. Reeds and woodwind player Tamar Osborn, drummers and percussionists Bex Burch and Sarathy Korwar, and keyboard players Danalogue and Al MacSween. Separately and collaboratively, they have since the late 2010s given us landmark genre-crossing albums in bands including Emanative, The Comet Is Coming, ...

MOMO.: Gira

by Chris May
September 27, 2024

Gira is one of those exhilarating beyond-category albums which London produces uniquely well, if the gentle reader will excuse a little partisanship. It is part m��sica popular brasileira (MPB) and part jazz, but never entirely one or the other, swinging between the two as the fancy takes it. Add to that splashes of West African highlife, ...

Jake Long: City Swamp

by Chris May
May 3, 2024

Drummer, composer and producer Jake Long's house-rocking City Swamp is part of a trilogy of post-2022 albums out of London's underground jazz scene which are connected by adjacent sources of inspiration, identical creative processes, and crossovers of personnel. Synchronicity and zeitgeist are writ large and, much of the time, in neon. The other two albums are ...

WOMAD 2023

by Martin Longley
September 5, 2023

WOMAD Charlton Park, Malmesbury England July 27-30 2023 What shall we do, if the first bands play at 1pm each day, at this, the UK's oldest and greatest global music festival? Why, we shall Taste The World, investigating a cookery demonstration performance that begins daily at noon! ...

Dele Sosimi & Friends At Ronnie Scott's Club

by Chris May
June 15, 2023

Dele Sosimi & Friends Ronnie Scott's Club London June 11, 2023 Born in London but brought up in Lagos, keyboard player Dele Sosimi was a child prodigy who joined Fela Kuti's Egypt 80 the moment he left secondary school in 1979. Sosimi had by that time been rehearsing with Egypt ...