Saxophonist Composer Arranger
Very happy that Jazzwise Magazine has announced the album launch through featuring our collaborative video with film makers Anna Maguire and Emily Bailey on their Video of the Day series. The film can watched via the link, with further info about the collaborative process on the YouTube page.
https://www.jazzwise.com/news/article/video-of-the-day-joshua-jaswon-octet-share-swirl-and-gather-from-new-album-polar-waters
A few weeks to go until Polar Waters is released and awesome to have been played by Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 6. The album’s opening track Swimming in Winter was aired for the first time and either side of us were She Can’t Love You by Chemise and Tiya Mowa by Bokani Dyer.
Check out the show here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lrds
Neil Spencer’s detailed review of Polar Waters was published in The Observer over the weekend and is available to read in full on The Guardian website via the link. Very happy for the album to be getting this kind of exposure in the UK’s most dedicated newspaper for culture.
Awesome that in the run-up to release day legendary Tokyo based DJ, Music Curator and Producer Toshio Matsuura aired a track from Polar Waters on his IntermFM 897 Tokyo Moon Show.
The show features a mega line-up and is available to Japan-based listeners here:
https://radiko.jp/#!/ts/INT/20230519230000
Landfill, the third and final pre-release single from our upcoming album Polar Waters is now available to stream. This is a through composed piece, featuring solos from Andrej on trombone and myself on alto.
Listen on all digital platforms here:
https://orcd.co/0w22qjn
Swirl and Gather, the second pre-release single from our upcoming album Polar Waters is now available to stream. The music develops through an extended improvisation with Anna Serierse on vocals and myself on alto and the composition is inspired by Claire Cox’s poem Seasick.
Listen on all digital platforms here:
https://orcd.co/mrpjyaq
Deception Island, the first pre-release from our upcoming album Polar Waters is now available to stream. Johannes Mann and Marc Doffey are featured soloists and it’s awesome to be able to share the first part of this project.
The composition is inspired by Catherine Fauld’s poem Deception Island, whose travels to the antarctic and arctic have informed her work.
Listen on all digital platforms here:
https://orcd.co/aojmzxk
Since the beginning of the year I have been preparing to play Escapades – John Williams’s alto saxophone concerto – with the Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg. This has been a long-term ambition and it was great fun last week recording the first movement in the magnificent Babelsberger Film Studio.
Recorded earlier this year in Berlin, the octet’s second album is now mixed and mastered and I am looking forward to its release with Ubuntu Music in 2023. More info to come soon
Many thanks to BBC Music Magazine for awarding Silent Sea a 5-Star Review!
I’m very happy to be able to share with you recently published 4-Star reviews for Silent Sea in Jazzwise Magazine, The Scotsman and The JazzMann.
All reviews for the album can be seen in full in the PRESS section of the website
Joshua Jaswon 