‘Versatile contemporary jazz and fusion saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist/composer plays diverse originals all laced with her own bluesy, expressive sax work.’

Time Out London

‘If you could bottle this band’s music, how wonderful it would be to inhale it to start every day.’

Express and Star, Lichfield

‘Charlotte Glasson’s improvisation with a loop box and a host of instruments (and a saw!) was stunning and mesmerising.’

The Evening Argus

‘If you’ve ever wondered what smiles sound like, this is it”

Hot Press, Ireland.

‘Multi instrumentalist Charlotte Glasson will restore your faith in jazz. Witty, exhuberant & genre defying stuff.’

@LocalSCambridge

Fresh from a busy summer of gigs including a high profile performance at the prestigious Love Supreme Festival, rising Charlotte Glasson Band plays mainly original tunes composed by Charlotte - inspired by Gypsy jazz, Ska, Blues, Latin and World music.

The band has performed all over the UK including London Jazz Festival, Birmingham Jazz Festival, Marlborough Jazz Festival, Love Supreme, the Jazz Café and Ronnie Scott's. Featuring: Charlotte Glasson (saxes, flutes, violin and saw); Mark Bassey (trombone); Chris Spedding (guitar); Chris Kibble (keyboards); Mick Hutton (bass); and Sam Glasson (drums). Charlotte has released seven CDs with her band and also plays in The Brighton Beach Boys.

The band is touring to promote the new album, Bonito, recorded earlier this year. The tunes collected reflect Charlotte’s fascination into what inspires other artists, and the album takes its name from Frida Kahlo’s 'Parrot'. Drawing on the lives and loves of a variety of artists for inspiration, the songs tell tales of countries seen, seas sailed, games played and the joy of life as a creative dance.

Bonito, Charlotte's eighth album, is released September '22 and will be previewed 25 August at Pizza Express, Soho. >> LISTEN HERE<<

Charlotte Glasson is an award winning multi instrumentalist, composer and band leader, playing mainly original music, which drawing on on influences from across the globe. Since wining the ‘Best Newcomer Award’ in Marlborough Jazz Festival, the Charlotte Glasson Band has been wowing audiences at many jazz festivals including London Jazz Festival, Love Supreme, Southport Jazz Festival, Swanage, Teignmouth, Ealing and Oxford.

Hard to pigeon-hole stylistically, Charlotte's compositions draw on Latin rhythms, New Orleans Mardi Gras, Swing, Arabic, Spaghetti Western and Gypsy Jazz influences. She has the sensitivity to combine these styles into something that is uniquely her own, upbeat and bouncy on the surface, and with all sorts of interesting twists and turns as a sub-text, and the ability to draw an unexpectedly emotional response in the listener.

Charlotte uses the enormously varied instrumental resources at her disposal in an unfailingly imaginative way. Her own musical armoury contains a small orchestra's worth of sonic possibilities, starting from her woodwind (tenor and soprano sax, flute, whistles), violin and percussion.

UPCOMING

August

10 August | Charlotte Glasson and Tony Woods Band @ CryerArts, Carshalton 8pm
14 August | Brecon Jazz Festival 2 pm
25 August | Pizza Express, Dean St. 8 pm

September

1 September | w/ Kate Daniels Band, Pantilles, Tunbridge Wells

October

15 October | w/ Tim Staffell and Paul Stewart Hampton Hub
25 October | w/Tim Staffell and Paul Stewart Bletchley Blues Club, Bletchley

November

4 November | Charlotte Glasson Band Steyning Jazz Club
11 November | Charlotte Glasson Band, Birmingham Jazz Club
18 November |w/ Camille O’Sullivan Union Chapel, London
20 November | w/ Kate Daniels Tenterdon Jazz Club
25 November | w/ Chris Hodgkins Salute to Humph, Lighthouse Poole, Dorset
26 November | w/ Camille O’Sullivan The Olympia, Dublin

FURTHER DATES TBC