Vasilis Xenopoulos Tuesday 27 January

Vasilis Xenopoulos, the club's guest on Tuesday 27th January, is one of the most accomplished tenor saxophonists of his generation and a leading exponent of straight ahead jazz in this country. London became his permanent home after he graduated with honours from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and gradually established himself as one of London’s up and coming jazz saxophonists. He has worked with some of the best musicians of the international jazz scene as a band leader, a section leader and as a guest soloist at various projects.

His sonorous, lyrical tone and classy melodic vocabulary have elevated him to the top rank of the UK jazz community.

In 2009 he formed The Xtet, whose debut album 'Loud City' containing eight original compositions, was released on 33Jazz Records in 2011. Two years later he released his second album 'The Wind Machine' on the same label, which gained fine reviews in The Times and on BBC Radio 3. 

In 2017 he and Nigel Price created the XPQ (Xenopoulos/Price Quartet) and recorded their first album under that brand, 'Sidekicks' which celebrates some of the most successful guitar/sax pairings in the history of jazz. 

He and pianist Paul Edis released their first album in 2016, entitled 'A Narrow Escape', to critical acclaim. Their most recent recording features original music, inspired by the many places they've called home over the years. They toured 'Feels Like Home' in Spring-Summer 2024.