Adam Waldmann

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Having recently recorded his debut album "Kairos Moment" with his band Kairos 4tet, saxophonist and composer Adam Waldmann is forging a personal voice for himself amongst some of the UK’s most promising up and coming talent. A graduate of Trinity College of Music in 2006, he recieived the award for "Outstanding Student" from the Jazz Faculty. Whilst there and during a six month exchange to the Noord Netherlands Conservatorium in Holland he was lucky enough to study under the likes of Julian Arguelles, Don Braden, Russell Van Den Berg, Yuri Honing and Barak Schmool. Adam has performed with some of the most notable names in music. These include Polar Bear, Shlomo, Clark Tracey, Gwilym Simcock, Jules Buckley (Heritage Orchstra/Metroplole Orchestra), JIm Hart, Steve Davis (Chick Corea/Avishai Cohen Bands), David Berkman, Will Vinson, Annie Whitehead, Mike Outram, Anders Christensen (Paul Motian Band), and various members of the Fire and Loop Collectives. As a band leader and sideman he has been lucky enough to have been asked to perform on some of Europes’s top platforms. A recent highlight being at the South Bank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the ’Music through Unconventional Means’ series with Beatbox sensation Shlomo and Polar Bear. Other performances include Brecon Jazz Festival, Charlie Wrights, The Vortex, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival, The Jazz Cafe, Cargo, The Spitz, Ronnie Scotts and Blackheath Concert Halls. Adam has taught on the internationally renowned Glamorgan Jazz Summer School, assisted in the Mbawula South African Music workshops programme and has produced music for film and radio incuding the improvised score to BBC Radio 3’s classic serial "Passing".
"Adam is a beautiful sax player with a strong identity and fantastic ideas. As a soprano player particularly, he’s one of very few musicians who have developed an exciting, personal sound and concept" Mark Lockheart (Polar Bear, Perfect Houseplants)
"One of the most promising saxophonists of his generation" Simon Purcell, noted pianist and jazz educator.
"Some of Britain's finest young jazz musicians bring you a heady mix of exciting contemporary jazz originals alongside well thumbed standards... OCAS went last week and were blown away; highly, highly recommended." Oxford Contemporary Arts Society
"Waldmann himself has a pure, keening sound on soprano and a plaintive, gently warbling approach to the tenor that sometimes calls Charles Lloyd to mind; it is refreshing to hear someone carefully sculpt a tenor solo, paying scrupulous attention to dynamic and timbral subtleties, rather than imitating a bull running at a gate..." Chris Parker, The BBC, Jazz Review, The Vortex

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