“The Sofa Sessions”: Midhurst Jazz Food & Blues

ft. The Fraser Smith Quartet

Fraser is a double threat: alongside his incredible hard be-bop tenor sax he also sings in the Chet Baker lineage – understated, melodic, a horn player’s vocal – and the switch between blowing and singing shapes the arc of the set. The Quartet is Smith, Rob Barron (piano; Al Jarreau, Patti Austin), Simon Read (bass), Steve Brown (a British bebop maestro on drums since the nineties). TipTop!