Looking forward to playing some UK dates with my friend Linus Eppinger next week. Linus is a fantastic German guitarist who lives in Amsterdam. I had the pleasure of playing some dates in Germany and the Netherlands with him last year, so it’s great to be able to fix up some gigs with him over here. Hope to see you at one of these if we’re playing near you!

Looking forward to what should be a very fun tour with my good friend, the great guitarist Linus Eppinger. After a quick pit-stop in Hamburg, we’ll be off to the Netherlands for gigs in Breda (at the Jazz Festival), Amsterdam, The Hague and Leiden. See the tour poster below. We’ll be playing with a few different rhythm sections. Check the gig list on this website for more info on personnel.

“I can’t think of another saxophonist with a sound quite like Sam Braysher’s…” Incredibly nice four-star review by Dave Gelly in The Observer here. Very flattering!

Flattered to be featured in a double review by Chris Pearson in The Times. Dance Little Lady, Dance Little Man is covered alongside and album the great American saxophonist Vincent Herring. You can read it here, although it’s behind a paywall. The part about my album reads: “There’s more sophisticated swing from another alto saxophonist, the Londoner Sam Braysher, whose trio explore the dustier corners of the Great American Songbook. In their airy persistence his renditions of Shall We Dance? and Little White Lies recall Lee Konitz’s classic Motion. Yet he and the bassist Tom Farmer and…

My album – Dance Little Lady, Dance Little Man, with Jorge Rossy and Tom Farmer – is out on all platforms now! You can listen to it on your streaming platform of choice here. Or if you’d like to purchase a CD copy, you can do that here. Hope you enjoy! Here’s a photo, by Maximilano Martinez, from the recording session:

Some more press has appeared, as the release date for Dance Little Lady, Dance Little Man approaches. The album is out on all platforms from this Thursday 22nd April. You can also order CD copies via the shop on this website. Dan Paton wrote a detailed interview/feature piece for London Jazz News, which covers the choice of repertoire on the album, and what it’s like to play with Jorge Rossy and Tom Farmer. Adrian Pallant wrote a review of the album, also for London Jazz News, calling it “an intimate, sun-warmed amble through…