Alan Skidmore

Of all the tenor players who have chosen to work within the Coltrane legacy, he is perhaps the most convincing.

Brian Case, Melody Maker

East to West shows Skidmore's group confronting the hardest test of all - to take a trio of Coltrane tunes and find something new to say. They do.

Richard Williams, The Times

After three decades of liaisons with legends such as Herbie Hancock and Georgie Fame, Skidmore only really needs his smouldering saxophone to get us drooling. As usual he massages and then assaults our ears with the kind of heady, devotional jazz that gets even the non-smokers in the audience gagging for a cigarette. His set comprises music written by John Coltrane and the band is obviously at home evoking his slow-burning dreamscapes and his fiery crescendos. As they strike up with Resolution you would swear that Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner are in the room, so authentic are those swelling sheets of sound.

James Griffiths, The Guardian

With subtle British humour, Alan Skidmore concluded the Brit-Sax-Evenings at the Schmeide Club with a superb tribute to Coltrane. This is no light undertaking but anybody who came to the club heavy hearted would surely have gone home with their spirits lifted.

Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf
April 2003

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