East Grinstead Jazz club is delighted to welcome the brilliant young British Sax Player Duncan Eagles.

Duncan is attracting attention for his distinctive sound and virtuosic improvising and is becoming a driving force in British Jazz. Duncans new Album Narrations is released in May on USA Record Label Ropeadope, we are delighted that Duncan is playing for us as part of his tour.

Duncan Eagles a London-based saxophonist who performs regularly at venues and festivals all over the world, including Ronnie Scotts, Rochester Jazz Festival New York, Pizza Express Jazz Club (Soho), Cheltenham International Jazz Festival, and many more. Duncan was also one of the musicians selected for Seriouss Take 5 scheme for 2017.

As well as running his own groups, Duncan is also very much in demand as a sideman, and has performed with some of the top names and bands in the music world including Gary Husband, Zara McFarlane, Melt Yourself Down, Mark Mondesir, Ola Onabule and Janek Gwizdala to name a few.

Duncan is also recognized for his work with critically acclaimed band, Partikel who have released four albums to date. Their second, third and fourth albums Cohesion, String Theory and Counteraction being signed on one of the world’s most exciting labels, Whirlwind Recordings, and have been met with praise from the UK, European and USA press. Cohesion being hailed as one of the top 10 releases of 2012 according to renown critic Kevin LeGendre and String Theory making it into the European Jazz Network Charts and also the Daily Telegraphs best albums of 2015. In 2017 they were nominated for a parliamentary jazz award in the category of Best Jazz Ensemble alongside Phronesis and Binker and Moses. They will be releasing their fifth album Anniversary Song with progressive German based label Berthold Records this summer.

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