Jazz Articles about Will Barnes

About Will Barnes

Album Review

Will Barnes Quartet: Outside the Light

Read "Outside the Light" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
November 18, 2025

Once an area of contention, the border between England and Wales, known as the Welsh Marches, is now a lovely rural region of farms, valleys, hills and castles. The Will Barnes Quartet draw inspiration from this landscape, as well as that of Mid Wales, to drive their compositions and improvisations on Outside The Light. This major step forward follows on from their debut album Source of the Severn (AAB Records, 2023). Across the album's eight tracks, guitarist Will ...

Radio & Podcasts

Will Barnes: Jazz Impressions of the Welsh Landscape

by Lawrence Peryer
April 13, 2024

Today, the Spotlight shines On Will Barnes, leader of the Will Barnes Quartet, who joins me to talk about his life in music and, specifically, his ongoing collaboration with landscape artist Erin Hughes. Their first album together, Source of the Severn (AAB Records), is a 21st-century take on classic bebop-era sounds. Erin's nine original works of art respond to Will and the Quartet's music, using her own hand-marbled papers as a palette to create collages that evoke the ...