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Tamar Osborn

Since graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2000 I’ve been working as a freelance saxophonist (order of preference: Baritone, Soprano, Tenor, Alto) and multi-wind specialist (clarinet, flute and related instruments such as alto flute, piccolo, bass clarinet). I work in a wide range of fields including pop/soul (Kelis UK & Europe tour 2014), theatre/dance (such as Akram Khan’s XENOS worldwide tour and the acclaimed production of FELA! at Sadler’s Wells and the National Theatre, London), TV (Jools Holland, Chris Moyles Quiz night house band, X Factor Big Band Special), world music (Afrobeat and related genres in particular, taking part in Africa Express in 2012 and 2013), improvisation with djs (using tenor sax and occasionally flute), jazz and classical groups, session recording, arranging, teaching, functions… and to keep the creative side of things fresh I’m involved in a number of on-going projects: – COLLOCUTOR (my own project – instrumental modal music with jazz and global influences) -DELE SOSIMI AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA (check out the Afrobeat Vibration nights for one of the best live music experiences in London!) -SARATHY KORWAR (jazz with Indian and electronic influences) -THE FONTANELLES (an afrobeat-ethio-funk-dub offshoot from the Fela! production) -EMANATIVE (space jazz) -JESSICA LAUREN (jazz groove) -1201_ALARM (science-inspired!) -ELIA & THE LOW TEARS (soulful funky pop) Other guest, occasional and past projects include Hackney Colliery Band, Yuriy Galkin Nonet, The Soothsayers, Lokkhi Terra (Cuba meets Bangladesh), the John Bennett Band (jazz funk big band), Oddjob (afro-latin-funk), Mezzowave (electronica-soul), Kita Steuer’s Samba Soul Transatlantico (Brazilian Samba-Rock), Stadtpark (folk-jazz), Lisa Lore (nu-blues and spoken word), Chagall Illuminated (animation and live & electronic music collaboration with Max Reinhardt and Sophie Solomon) and Vent Saxophone Quartet (contemporary classical). I have been lucky enough to travel all over the world thanks to music, including performing with the fantastic German/Indian group Taal Tantra with table maestro Tanmoy Bose in Kolkata in 2005, playing at Cheick Tidiane Seck’s Jam’Sahel 2007 (www.jamsahel.org) in Paris (thanks to Roy with Chameleoneye), and improvising with fire-dancers in Bangladesh.

Varier: Berlin

By Tamar Osborn

Label: Dark Circle Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Heartbeat No1 (Berlin); Gut (Berlin); Trance (Berlin); premonition / memory (Berlin); Space (Berlin); Raw (Berlin); Heartbeat No2 (Berlin); Raw (Berlin) alternate take.

We Are Surging Waters

By Rosa Brunello

Label: Domanda Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Hearts Beat For Freedom; Line Unbroken; We Are Surging Waters; Fish Without A Bicycle; When The River Remembered Its Name; Living Upstream; No Bass Frills; Witching Hour; Memory In The Making.

The Celtic Wheel Of The Year Suite

By Josephine Davies

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Eos (summer solstice); Lammas; Mabon; Samhain; Gaia’s Breath (winter solstice); Imbolc; Ostara; Beltane.

Jazz&Wine of Peace 2025

by Neri Pollastri
November 5, 2025

Jazz&Wine of Peace 2025 Varie sedi Cormòns 23-26.10.2025 L'edizione 2025 del Jazz&Wine of Peace, la ventottesima, era anche la prima con un nuovo direttore artistico: a Mauro Bardusco, che da sempre curava la rassegna e che--nonostante la sua scomparsa nel luglio dell'anno scorso --aveva progettato anche la quasi totalità di quella ...

City Swamp

By Jake Long

Label: New Soil
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ideological Rubble; Celestial Soup; Swamp; Silhouette.

Flock II

By Bex Burch

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Druidstone Incantation; Turned Skyward; Cat’s Paws Effect; Meet Your Shadow; Large Magellanic Cloud; No One Is Spared Who Goes Down The Deep Well; Dance Until You Shatter Yourself; A Thousand Miles Lost; Capillary Waves; Edge Of Empty.

Gira

By Marcelo Frota

Label: Batov Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Para; Rio; Passo De Avarandar; Oqueeei; Jao; My Mind; Beija Flor; Summer Interlude; A Walk In The Park; Gira.

Flock: Flock II

by Chris May
October 11, 2024

Flock is composed of five of the most venturesome musicians in British jazz. Reeds and woodwind player Tamar Osborn, drummers and percussionists Bex Burch and Sarathy Korwar, and keyboard players Danalogue and Al MacSween. Separately and collaboratively, they have since the late 2010s given us landmark genre-crossing albums in bands including Emanative, The Comet Is Coming, ...

MOMO.: Gira

by Chris May
September 27, 2024

Gira is one of those exhilarating beyond-category albums which London produces uniquely well, if the gentle reader will excuse a little partisanship. It is part música popular brasileira (MPB) and part jazz, but never entirely one or the other, swinging between the two as the fancy takes it. Add to that splashes of West African highlife, ...