Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Line up:
Will Vinson – alto saxophone, composer
Tom Cawley – piano
Freddie Jensen – double bass
Darren Beckett – drums
Live from Ladbroke Hall.
Video - Zhenya Strigalev
Originally from London, Alto Saxophonist/Composer Will Vinson moved to New York City in 1999. Since his arrival, he has performed, toured and/or recorded with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ari Hoenig, Marcus Gilmore, Chris Potter, Kurt Elling, Lage Lund, Aaron Parks, Miguel Zenon’s Identities, and many others. Will has an international reputation as a leader and sideman.
All About Jazz New York describes Will as playing “with a relentless force”. Thomas Michelsen of Denmark’s Politiken, hails this “very exciting saxophonist” with a “beautiful, softly modulating tone”, and John Fordham of The Guardian described a “superb solo of rugged leathery sounds turning into mellifluous high notes” with “secure control and storming energy”. Time Out London calls will an “exciting young altoist with a lethal approach to writing and soloing”
Visit Ladbroke Hall: ladbrokehall.com/live-programme/jazz
Line up:
Will Vinson – alto saxophone, composer
Tom Cawley – piano
Freddie Jensen – double bass
Darren Beckett – drums
Live from Ladbroke Hall.
Video - Zhenya Strigalev
Originally from London, Alto Saxophonist/Composer Will Vinson moved to New York City in 1999. Since his arrival, he has performed, toured and/or recorded with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ari Hoenig, Marcus Gilmore, Chris Potter, Kurt Elling, Lage Lund, Aaron Parks, Miguel Zenon’s Identities, and many others. Will has an international reputation as a leader and sideman.
All About Jazz New York describes Will as playing “with a relentless force”. Thomas Michelsen of Denmark’s Politiken, hails this “very exciting saxophonist” with a “beautiful, softly modulating tone”, and John Fordham of The Guardian described a “superb solo of rugged leathery sounds turning into mellifluous high notes” with “secure control and storming energy”. Time Out London calls will an “exciting young altoist with a lethal approach to writing and soloing”
Visit Ladbroke Hall: ladbrokehall.com/live-programme/jazz
