Jazz Articles about Henry Spencer

About Henry Spencer

Album Review

In 2011, trumpeter Henry Spencer won the Best Newcomer Award at the jazz festival in the Wiltshire town of Marlborough; he went on to win the Emerging Excellence Award from Help Musicians UK in 2014. Sometimes these awards add extra pressure or, as is the case here, propel the musician to new heights. He climbs very close to the summit here with The Defector. The nine compositions on the album were inspired by those who defect -soldiers, politicians or partners ...

Album Review

Henry Spencer and Juncture: The Reasons Don't Change

Read "The Reasons Don't Change" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
January 15, 2017

The cover art is a clue to the music contained in this excellent album. It depicts a vista split in two, one half a deserted bucolic scene and the other a populated urban street. In the midst stands trumpeter and progenitor of this work, Henry Spencer, a graduate of the UK's prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The bifurcated opening track is introduced by a restrained fifty second trumpet solo, building-up to a sustained B flat note ...