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Blencathra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ownerless Gardens; Mode VI; Northern Quarter; Ownerless Gardens (reprise); Brexit Means Brexit; Blencathra; Sideways.

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Musician

Born and raised in the Northern English countryside, Sam Newbould is a saxophonist, composer and bandleader based in Amsterdam. A prolific and multi award winning composer, his compositions combine a passion for storytelling with a clarity and originality described as "mind-blowing, sometimes introverted and intimate and then exuberant again" (SWN Talent Award, NL).

Newbould won the Keep an Eye Records Award 2019, and was the first recipient of the Rabobank So Who's Next Talent Award 2024. Drawing together some of Europe's finest young improvisers, his bandleading combines striking creative vision with "no shortage of world class talent" (UK Vibe). “The group dynamic is masterful and its inherent charm is thickly underlined on every arrangement” (Jazzism, NL). With a burgeoning international reputation, the quintet have been selected as a Jazzahead 2025 European Showcase artist, and have been invited to play North Sea Jazz Festival, Love Supreme Festival (UK), BIMHUIS (NL), and the Vortex (UK) amongst others.

Article: Album Review

Sam Newbould Quintet: Blencathra

Read "Blencathra" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 18, 2020

Blencathra, the debut album from British-born, Amsterdam-based saxophonist Sam Newbould's quintet, presents half a dozen of the leader's forward-leaning compositions and arrangements whose general point of view may be subdued, at times veering toward melancholy, but is never less than engaging. One of Newbould's strengths, even when the music is leisurely and pensive, lies in his ...