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Tom Chant

About Me

For more information try the proper website, tomchant.com .

Tom Chant is an improvising saxophonist with musical relationships going back many years with Eddie Prévost and John Edwards documented on four CDs on Matchless Recordings , with the London Improvisers Orchestra, on four CDs, which can be found at the Emanem website and with a host of others including Ben Drew , Rhodri Davies , Angharad Davies, Steve Beresford, Steve Noble, Matt Davis, Sharif Sehnaoui (on the Al Maslakh released CD Cloister ), Otomo Yoshihide, Gail Brand, Veryan Weston, Maggie Nicols, Telectu (on the 3 CD set Quartetos with Prévost, Sunny Murray and Gerry Hemingway) Didier Lasserre, Benjamin Duboc, Pablo Rega and Gwen Jamois.

A solo improvised saxophone CD is in the pipeline, as is a recording with Didier Lasserre and Benjamin Duboc .

Besides his improvised music practices Tom has worked for many years with many bands, but most happily with the Marseille Figs , Cinematic Orchestra and more recently Bonobo and Vert .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/03/2007
Band Website: http://tomchant.com
Sounds Like:

The Dirty Canon
Marseille Figs
J Maizlish Mole - songs, singing, guitars and ukelele Dorian McFarland - accordion, brass and harmonicas Tom Chant - saxophones, bass clarinet and keyboards with special guests John Edwards on double bass and Jack Brennan on drums
Figs of London FOL1

Cloister
Tom Chant - soprano saxophone Sharif Sehnaoui - acoustic guitar
Al Malsakh MSLKH 05



The Blackbird's Whistle
Eddie Prévost Trio
Tom Chant - tenor saxophone and bass clarinet John Edwards - double bass Eddie Prévost - drums
Matchless Recordings MRCD56



Here are some more CDs I feature on:





Record Label: Matchless, Al Maslakh, Ninja Tune, Figs of London
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

In the absence of any music on my MySpace page here's a link or two.

Tom Chant and Sharif Sehnaoui recorded live, 15th December 2006, at the ICA on the first night of the 15th LMC Festival of Experimental Music. HereTwo short MP3s of Benjamin Duboc, Didier Lasserre and...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:20:00 GMT