Trish Clowes - MY IRIS

Trish Clowes - MY IRIS

Saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes leads MY IRIS, an intense and thrilling quartet with Ross Stanley (piano/Hammond organ), Chris Montague (guitar) and Joel Barford (drums). Dedicated to exploration and adroit writing, Clowes provides her bandmates with a unique platform for individual expression and group interplay, delivering driving grooves and lingering melodic lines, seamlessly morphing between earthy restlessness and futuristic dreamscapes.

Clowes is currently an Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall (London), and her recorded music can be found on US indie label Greenleaf Music, and UK labels Stoney Lane Records & Basho Records. Having been previously commissioned to write for ensembles such as the BBC Concert Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta, Clowes appeared as a guest soloist with the NDR Big Band (Germany) in November 2024, performing a new set of her own music entitled Radiant Resistance.

MY IRIS has toured internationally and made broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and Radio Bremen. In May 2024 the band was joined by US trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas (who is also the artistic director of Greenleaf Music) for a series of dates at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in London, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, and Bray Jazz Festival in Ireland. Other notable performances for the band include Wigmore Hall, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Karlsruhe Jazz Festival, LOFT Cologne, Rochester International Jazz Festival (Made In The UK showcase), Toronto International Jazz Festival, Galway Jazz Festival, and the Barbican (London Jazz Festival).

“an improviser to be reckoned with” Downbeat Magazine

“brilliant” Gilles Peterson, BBC Radio 6 Music

“Trish Clowes is one of the brightest stars to have emerged during the so-called British jazz boom of the past decade or more…The playing is rarely less than inspired… she is a musician of great sensitivity and strength.” Philip Watson, The Irish Times, 4.5 STARS for Journey to Where

Brook music video: https://youtu.be/kHf2ZVWVpO8
Truth Teller music video: https://youtu.be/-EfT4th5ekI

Photo: © Chris Kelly