Jazz Articles about Alex Hitchcock

About Alex Hitchcock

Album Review

Alex Hitchcock: Letters From Afar

Read "Letters From Afar" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
December 23, 2025

Alex Hitchcock made his name as an emerging talent in London when he decided to move to New York City to, as he put it, “engage with the music being made here, because as a white British musician playing Black American music, engaging with the context in which that music is made is important." Letters from Afar is his first shot across the bow from America, putting together a stellar band from the city's local jazz scene. The songs are all ...

Album Review

Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight

Read "Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight" reviewed by Andrew Hunter

by Andrew Hunter
September 9, 2025

Fellow Creatures is the band that bassist Jasper Høiby has assembled around himself and they are clearly a talented bunch. They would have to be, to revisit material from Høiby's previous band, Phronesis. That trio of Høiby, Anton Eger and Ivo Neame were almost hyperbolically highly regarded. A quick internet search will show how well reviewed they were, not only amongst the jazz cognoscenti, but also in the mainstream media. Much of the material on this record was ...

Live Review

Alex Hitchcock Dream Band al Torrione di Ferrara

by Libero Farnè
March 12, 2024

Alex Hitchcock Dream Band Torrione Jazzclub Ferrara 8.03.2024 Già nella stagione 2022-23 il Torrione di Ferrara non aveva perso l'occasione di proporre il tenorista inglese Alex Hitchcock, in trio, in qualità di vincitore della precedente edizione del 7 Virtual Jazz Club's Contest. Va dato merito all'attivo jazzclub ferrarese per averlo nuovamente presentato con il suo nuovo quintetto. Probabilmente Hitchcock non è il più famoso esponente dell'attuale prolifica scena britannica, tuttavia rappresenta ...

Album Review

Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band: Live in London

Read "Dream Band: Live in London" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 29, 2024

This is a bold expedition into the heart of progressive jazz, rendered across a vast canvas of three enthralling nights at the Vortex Jazz Club in London. This three-CD collection is not just a mere album, but a grand, audacious gathering of talents which blurs the line between a larger ensemble setup and a more intimate, modern band experience. Hitchcock's nifty approach to ensemble creation is at the core of this live recording. Rather than sticking ...

Radio & Podcasts

Alex Hitchcock, Sylvie Courvoisier, Chris Potter

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 6, 2024

Chris Potter's upcoming album and then two tunes which were recorded without a concern for time constraints, either in studio or live on stage, a place where suddenly the perception of time is altered in the midst of the creative flow. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Chris Potter feat. Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci, Brian Blade “Dream of Home" Eagle's Point (Edition) 0:16 Host talks 5:49 Alex ...

Album Review

Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band Live In London

Read "Dream Band Live In London" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
January 18, 2024

Viewed in retrospect, the abiding memory of 2023 is that it produced too many jazz albums prioritizing technical facility over emotional engagement. In London, New York and elsewhere (but not, so it seemed, in Chicago), musicians appeared to focus on virtuosity rather than feeling. Dullsville. For the record, some of those albums that did put soul on, at the least, an equal footing with cerebralism, are to be found in the Best Albums of 2023 round-up which can be read ...

Profile

Dial H for Hitchcock

by Peter Jones
November 5, 2022

When we meet in a South London pub, tenor saxophonist Alex Hitchcock mentions that he has a rehearsal the next day with the bassist Jasper Høiby for which he needs to learn about an hour of new music. It's for one gig, which is at the weekend. “So it's in at the deep end—quite exciting." If that seems like a lot of work for a one-off, it's because he's reluctant to have charts on the stand: when Høiby recorded with ...