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Winter-touring the East of England
Autumn-touring Yorkshire and more
2023
Our 12 date Spring/Summer UK tour culminated in a performance at the Swanage Jazz Festival.
Autumn touring includes Dorchester, Chichester, Oxford, Southampton, Winchester, Luton,York and Wakefield.
2022
In spite of covid affecting music making worldwide, we played a live stream for London Jazz Festival in 2020 and did a UK tour in 2021.
2022 will include a concert/live stream at Sands Music Room, London.
Thursday July 2 2020
Live stream as part of Harwich festival-see tour dates for link
Autumn Tour 2019
Playing London and the East Midlands:
Thur 10 October Karamel, Wood Green, London
Fri 11 October Zing Cafe, Lincoln (5pm)
Sat 12 October Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham
New Live Review
Here's a review from 'Bebop Spoken Here' of our performance at the Globe, Newcastle, on 19 May:
"The Globe blurb described Eagles as a rising star which he most certainly is. On the evidence of this gig his star is well and truly in the ascendancy. Soaring comet-like he impressed on both alto and soprano saxophones, his tone as good as any I've heard.
Clouts' linear approach included some chorded riffs where I swear he had six fingers on each hand. His compositions, although inspired by South African jazz greats Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, encompassed a more global landscape so we had Latin tinged music, gospelly blues, and more contemporary sounds.
Fairhall was impressive on bass whilst Bhatt kept the jazz-rock, Afro-beat rhythms going without resorting to over-the-top exhibitionism."
Lance Liddle 'Bebop Spoken Here'
Spring Tour 2019
The quartet will be touring the UK in April and May.
Alongside works from recent albums 'Umoya' and 'The Hour of Pearl,' material performed will include brand new pieces Rubik's Rubric, drawing on Yoruba rhythms, and Scintillate which is reminiscent of some of Robert Glasper's work. Other new pieces Tilt and Praya Dubia venture into unusual time signatures.
On saxophone is Samuel Eagles, known for his own ‘Spirit’ project, and the rhythm section for this tour comprises Tim Fairhall on bass and Kiran Bhatt on drums.
Tour dates
Friday 12 April Aberjazz at Peppers, Fishguard
Saturday 13 April Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead
Saturday 4 May The Archduke, Waterloo, London (10pm, free admission)
Thursday 16 May Davenham Jazz
Friday 17 May Upfront Gallery, Penrith
Saturday 18 May Jazz at St James, Leith, Edinburgh
Sunday 19 May The Globe, Newcastle
New videos 2018
We have shot some videos for soulandjazz.com-you can view the first one HERE
10th Anniversary UK Tour Autumn 2017
To mark the tenth anniversary of the quartet an extensive tour has been programmed, bookended by two London dates, and including Grimsby Jazz Club, which was one of the original debut tour venues.
Composer and pianist Philip Clouts will be presenting new material alongside pieces from recent release ‘Umoya’ with inspirations from African and other world musics. On saxophone is Samuel Eagles, fresh from launching his own ‘Spirit’ project, and the rhythm section comprises Alex Keen on bass and Dave Ingamells on drums.
Tour dates are Karamel, London (5 Oct) London; Grimsby Jazz at Old Clee Club, Grimsby (18 Oct); Number 39, Darwen (19 Oct); Zing Café, Lincoln (Fri 20 Oct); Lescar, Sheffield (25 Oct); Players Theatre, Davenham (26 Oct); Catstrand, New Galloway (27 Oct); Hippodrome, Eyemouth (28 Oct) Partick Hill Bowling Club, Glasgow (29 Oct ); Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (30 Oct); Future Inn, Bristol (9 Nov); Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport (10 Nov); Ram Jam Club, London (30 Nov).
Wales Tour Summer 2016
Philip Clouts will be playing a wide selection of his compositions in a project specially curated by Brecon Jazz Club-the Philip Clouts Welsh Quartet which is a collaboration between Clouts and three rising jazz talents from the South Wales scene, Tamasin Reardon (alto sax), Linus Fenton (bass) and Matt Griffiths (drums). Live dates are Brecon Jazz Club (19 July), Queens Head, Monmouth (20 July), Span Jazz, Narberth (21 July) and the Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff (22 July).
Spring touring 2016
The quartet will be appearing as part of the Linconshire Jazz Week on Saturday 7th May at the Playgoers Theatre in Louth.
Other tour dates are the Lion, Nottingham (8 May), Karamel, London (2 June) Fleece Jazz, Suffolk (3 June) and the Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames (17 June).
Review in The Guardian:
"Eagles gets into the spirit of both Clouts’ cultural openness and feel for dance grooves with his snaking, whooping soprano sax... The rhythm section play with precise ebullience under Clouts’ electric keys…The township bounce of Umoya’s title track makes it a standout of the set, with the unpretentiously light-stepping delivery that has made this group a popular live-show draw." John Fordham
From the Liner Notes to Umoya:
“Eagles’ phrasing lends itself perfectly to the immediacy of Clouts’ melodic writing, and to the conversational nature of the group as a whole…the end result is one of attractiveness with the added headiness of exotic flavours and joyous, dancing rhythms.” Rob Adams
Autumn 2015 New CD, New UK Tour
The new CD Umoya (titled from the Zulu word for life force), features rising star Samuel Eagles on sax and is one of the first wave of releases on the new jazz imprint from prestigious classical label Odradek Records.
The album release will coincide with a tour of England and Scotland including dates at Bridport Arts Centre (23 Oct) the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (26 Oct), The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen (29 Oct) the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool (30 Oct) and a London album launch at Café Posk on Saturday 17 October.
Summer Touring 2014
Following a warm reception for CD ‘The Hour of Pearl’ (London Jazz podcast, plays on Jamie Cullum, Jazz on 3, Late Junction, many positive reviews) the Philip Clouts Quartet toured the UK this summer including appearances at the Southport Jazz Festival (May 10) and Devizes Festival (June 14). The band also appeared on July 4 in the Wigmore Hall ‘Lates’ series.
Hour of Pearl 2013
Philip has been interviewed on London Jazz News. Listen to the podcast here
Reviews are rolling in for The Hour of Pearl, including:
Jazzwise “Pulsating groove-orientated music…distinctive…spiritual and soul jazz…strongly melodic themes”
AllAbout Jazz “combines lightness of touch with a rhythmic sensibility: a winning combination.”
Culture Capital “Alive and lyrical, artfully structured"
IanMann "Well written, attractively melodic, stylistically varied and superbly played.”