Jazz Lates at Hot Numbers: Harry Christelis

Whilst Harry Christelis (guitar and composition) is the ostensible group leader of the quartet, there is a palpably communal sense about their approach to music.

It is a quartet of explorative contemporary jazz, one of deep musical conversation between all the players including Christos Stylianides (trumpet), Andrea Di Biase (double bass) and Dave Storey (drums), each player draws on their divergent experience and pedigree to colour, shape and delineate the soundworlds evoked.

The music brings to mind the Fourth Worlds of Jon Hassell, the oceanic exploration of Miles Davis, the deep space of ECM, and the remote, avant-pop lighthouse scan of late Talk Talk. But these are mere comparisons, these musicians draw you into an ecosystem you have never visited before – a place you’d want to spend time: comfortably unfamiliar, intimately remote, beguilingly melancholic, and distressingly beautiful.

As part of a UK tour with recent performances at the 2025 EFG London Jazz festival and a headline slot at this years Birmingham Jazz Festival Christelis and his quartet will feature music from their latest 2026 album ‘Preserving Fictions’, which is set to build upon the bands successes even further as they carry on exploring their unique approach to improvised music.

"Compelling ambient music pitched somewhere between In A Silent Way-era Miles Davis and late-era Talk Talk” - The Guardian

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