Jay Phelps Quartet

Name: Jay Phelps Quartet
Start: 2025-02-28T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-28T22:30:00+00:00
Location: Verdict Jazz

Schedule

Fri Feb 28 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Verdict Jazz | Brighton, EN

Jay Phelps -trumpet
Nicola Guida - keys
Joe Downard - bass
Sascha Create - drums

"Versatile and personable...Phelps has been compared to American trumpet stars such as Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard for his virtuosity and sense of the jazz tradition...an enabler, as well as a player on London’s burgeoning and youthful late-night jamming scene." The Guardian

A household name in the UK jazz world, Canadian-born, UK-based trumpeter, DJ and composer Jay Phelps teams up with Birmingham MC Simon Jnr 'Through The Clouds'. It's the second single from his forthcoming album 'The Now' , releasing via Platoon in partnership with Black Lives In Music.
With a career spanning 20 years, Phelps has performed as a sideman with some of the world's top names, including Amy Winehouse, George Benson and Wiz Kid. His work as founding member of award-winning contemporary jazz group Empirical in the late 2000s garnered international acclaim, an early precursor to the explosion of UK jazz that has since followed. As a bandleader, he's explored multiple styles, threading together the jazz language and tradition with contemporary influences, always with one eye on the future. His status as an innovator and enabler on the UK jazz scene has seen him host regular shows on Jazz FM and Gilles Peterson's Worldwide FM, and draw praise from The Guardian, Jazzwise and London Jazz News.

The forthcoming LP 'The Now' brings together a cross-generational collective of musicians. It's a journey from the underground, club-centric UK jazz scene, through to the house-filled streets of Detroit and progressive sonics of LA. Phelps continues on his mission as a connector of dots, bringing together multiple generations of musicians at the forefront of the UK's jazz scene, including David Mrakpor (Blue Lab Beats), Tom Ford (Chris Dave, Reuben James) and Nicola Guida (Secret Night Gang). The record draws inspiration from hiphop, G-funk and broken beat, with Phelps and co weaving between styles through conversational improvisation, thoughtfully crafted melodies and a combination of vocal and horn-led arrangements.