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Andrew Neil Hayes

At the forefront of Bristol’s contribution to the pulsing new UK jazz scene come Run Logan Run, an alchemical fusion of surging, polyrhythmic alt-breakbeats and screaming guttural saxophone.Propelled by the kinetic ferocity of Matt Brown’s drums and guided by soul deep melodies, motifs and cries unfurled from Andrew Neil Hayes’ tenor, the music that emerges is fiercely committed, questing and risk-taking. Since forming in 2016 the duo have earned a reputation for explosive live performances, full of raw power and visceral energy.

The duo have toured the UK extensively, sharing stages with the likes of Colin Stetson, Melt Yourself Down, Shabaka Hutchings, and The Bad Plus, and have performed at many European Jazz Festivals

Brilliant Corners 2023

by Ian Patterson
March 25, 2023

Brilliant Corners Black Box jny:Belfast, N. Ireland 2-11 March, 2023 One of the highlights of Belfast's music calendar, Brilliant Corners' eleventh annual shindig served up thirteen concerts over nine days. As ever, the main venue was Black Box, where audiences were treated to the best of Irish, British, European and North ...

Andrew Neil Hayes: Tenor Badness

by Chris May
January 9, 2023

Something big and wild and loud was stirring on the alternative British jazz scene around 2015, 2016. In London, high-voltage tenor sax and drums duo Binker and Moses made their debut album, as did jazz-rock power trio The Comet Is Coming. Meanwhile, in the west of the country, in the port city of Bristol, tenor saxophonist ...

Nature Will Take Care Of You

Label: Worm Discs
Released: 2022
Track listing: Growing Pains; Where Do You Go?; Project Pigeon Missile; The Softest Nose In The World; Breaking Through; Great Fools; Searching For God In Strangers Faces; The Taste Of Oxygen; Silver Afternoon (CD bonus track).

Run Logan Run: Nature Will Take Care Of You

by Chris May
November 11, 2022

Although they often remain below the radar of the international jazz audience, British cities other than London support thriving jazz and beyond-jazz scenes, and the port of Bristol has a particularly fertile one. Among its luminaries are Run Logan Run, a duo comprising saxophonist Andrew Neil Hayes and drummer Matt Brown. Nature Will Take Care Of ...

For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers

By Andrew Neil Hayes

Label: Worm Discs
Released: 2021
Track listing: Screaming With The Light On; A Brief Moment; Give Me Back My Slippers; Moving With Speed; It’s About Ice Cream; Cold Shower; Shout Song; Wise Man Eames.

Run Logan Run: For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers

by Chris May
October 5, 2021

Tenor saxophone and drums albums have been at the heart of London's alternative jazz scene since its first stirrings around 2015. That year, saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd, then members of singer Zara McFarlane's backing band, started tossing riffs and beats back and forth to each other during pre-gig soundchecks. In ...

Montreux Jazz Artists Autumn of Music

by Martin McFie
October 26, 2020

The Montreux Palace Autumn of Music Montreux Switzerland 12-17 October 2020 The obvious, burning question for Montreux Jazz Festival press officer Marc Zendrini, concerned plans for the Festival in 2021. He replied “We have safe possibilities for outside performance next summer, all along the lakefront. But for which artists, on what ...

Various Artists: Whiskey Juliet Foxtrot

by Luke Seabright
April 2, 2019

Much like the highly-regarded We Out Here (Brownswood Recordings, 2018), Whiskey Juliet Foxtrot is all about showcasing some exciting new talent in jazz. However, there is perhaps an extra lesson to be learned from Byrd Out's new compilation album; we would be wrong to assume that the UK's flourishing scene is solely concentrated in jny:London.