Festa: Will Butterworth Quartet

Festa: Will Butterworth Quartet

This is the first date of a national tour by this impressive quartet launching their new recording, a suite based on an Oscar Wilde story, ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’.

Will Butterworth piano, Seb Pipe alto sax, Nick Pini bass, Pete Ibbetson drums

A precociously talented jazz pianist, Will Butterworth grew up playing cello and improvising on piano and started playing Jazz professionally in 1999. Will has worked with many of Britains finest musicians and is steadily becoming an increasingly important presence on the UK Jazz scene as pianist, composer and band leader.

Seb Pipe has worked with many top musicians such as Tony Kofi, Portuguese group Pequenos Mundos and spent some time playing with American pioneer Steve Coleman and his Five Elements Band, as well as his own band.

The back line of Nick Pini and Pete ibbetson are known to us as fine, flexible musicians.

The suite of music employs beautiful melodies and rich harmonies to retell Wilde’s story. The quartet uses these melodies as starting points for improvisations and the result is intense and exhilarating.