An ECM recording artist, bandleader and composer, Andy Sheppard is one of Europe’s leading saxophonists and one of a very few British musicians to have made a significant impact on the international jazz scene, playing and writing for settings from solo to big band and chamber orchestra. Sheppard has composed over 350 works that incorporate a strong and characteristic sense of lyricism alongside a very personal use of rhythms from Asia, Africa and South America.

“It’s hard to think of a jazz saxophonist with a more keen and pure sense of melody than Andy Sheppard. He can infuse the tiniest little inflections with expressive power, just because the overall line is always so strong.” – Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph