A fresh look at jazz with My Iris

Trish Clowes is a 33-year-old English saxophonist and composer who perfectly exemplifies the strength, energy and ambition of the jazz scene in Britain right now, writes Philip Watson.

Over the course of four strikingly inventive albums, Shrewsbury-born and London-based Clowes (it’s pronounced “clues”) has mixed a love of offbeat melodies, rich harmonies, solid grooves, and a passion for both improvisation and classical orchestration, into music at once immediate and winningly enigmatic.