GUEST OF THE MONTH (JANUARY)

Born in London (UK) to a Barbadian father and British-Jamaican mother, Soweto Kinch is one of the most exiting and versatile young musicians to hit the British jazz scene in recent years.

Kinch began playing saxophone at the age of nine after learning clarinet at primary school. After meeting Wynton Marsalis four years later he discovered and became passionate about jazz, first concentrating on piano and later, in his teens, focusing on alto saxophone.

He is a talented saxophonist who has won numerous accolades including the Rising Star Award at the 2002 BBC Jazz Awards and the prestigious White Saxophone prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In 2003 and 2007 he won the MOBO prize for Best Jazz Act. In the same year his debut album Conversations With The Unseen was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, but Kinch lost to grime MC Dizzee Rascal. 2004 saw Kinch win two BBC Radio Jazz Awards; Best Instrumentalist and Best Band along with the Peter Whittingham Award for Jazz Innovation.

If you don't know Soweto's works yet, here are tow tips: ‘A Life in the Day of B19: Tales of the Towerblock’ e
‘Conversations With The Unseen’. Check it out!!!



Jam session at Castelinho38 (Soweto, Casey, Hej)