Rachel Musson

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Rachel Musson (2019)

Rachel Musson (* in South Wales ) is a British jazz and improvisation musician ( tenor saxophone ).

Live and act

Musson grew up in Wales and studied at City University London , then at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at Trinity College of Music . In addition, she has been working in several London improvisation projects since the late 1990s, including with Polar Bear , Seb Rochford , Steve Buckley and Caroline Kraabel , and in the 2010s in a trio with Liam Noble and Mark Sanders , with whom she wrote the album Tatterdemalion for the Label Babel submitted. She also plays in a trio with the Danish saxophonist Julie Kjaer and the cellistHannah Marshall , as well as in duo formations with the double bass player Olie Brice and the vibraphonist Corey Mwamba . She is also a member of the Alex Ward quintet , Eddie Prévost's improvisation band Atmospheric Disturbance , the E17 Jazz Collective and Loz Speyer's formation Inner Space Music (with Chris Biscoe , Olie Brice and Simon Roth). She also works with her own formation Skein (album Flight Line 2010), which she also composes. Throughout her career, she also played with Alcyona Mick , Han Bennink , Gail Brand , Federico Ughi , Mary Halvorson , John Russell , Adam Linson, and Alan Tomlinson . In 2013 she was nominated for the London Jazz Award. In the field of jazz, she was involved in three recording sessions between 1998 and 2010. In addition to her work as a musician, Musson works in London as a yoga teacher and physiotherapist.

Discographic notes

  • Federico Ughi: The Space Within (Slam, 1998)
  • Skein: Flight Line (FIRE, 2010), with Josh Morrison, Javier Carmona, Will Collier
  • Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders / Liam Noble: Tatterdemalion (Babel, 2013)
  • Bibimbap (2016), with Mark Sanders, John Edwards
  • Mike Caratti / Rachel Musson / Steve Beresford : Hesitantly Pleasant (2017)
  • Rachel Musson / Pat Thomas / Mark Sanders : Shifa: Live at Cafe Oto (2019)
  • Cath Roberts & Rachel Musson: Duo Set at BRAK, May 2018 (2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review of the album in The Guardian of June 13, 2013
  2. ↑ Soundtrips NRW - Rachel Musson & Corey Mwamba ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 19, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pelmke.de
  3. ↑ Review of Rachel Musson's Skein: Flight Line (2011) album in The Guardian
  4. ^ Review of the album in The Jazz Man
  5. ↑ Event information at Vortex Jazz
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 3, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Musson, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz and improvisation musician (tenor saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH South wales