I’m playing a few concerts in Spain next week with my good friend, bassist Dario Di Lecce. On 12 and 13 February we’ll be in Madrid at Cafe Central with very swinging Spanish drummer Esteve Pi. Then on 16 Feb we’ll be playing as a trio with the great Valencian pianist Albert Sanz at Jimmy Glass. More info on my gigs page.

Happy to have some gigs coming up to promote my new album (more on that soon). Here’s a poster with some dates in the first half of 2024. Head over to my gigs page for more info and tickets. See you out there!

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…