JAMES ALLSOPP
Genres: Hard Bop, World Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz • United Kingdom

James Allsopp is a London based reeds player, mainly performing on tenor and baritone saxophones and bass clarinet. In 2006 Allsopp returned to Cheltenham to deliver an incendiary performance with Fraud, an international quintet co-led by Allsopp and drummer Tim Giles that also featured Norwegian guitarist Stian Westerhus. The band created quite a stir and released one self titled album but the international line up proved difficult to sustain and the group folded, with Allsopp and Giles going on to form the trio Golden Age of Steam with organist Kit Downes. Occasionally the core line up of GAOS was augmented with the addition of guest musicians such as bassist Ruth Goller and trumpeter Alex Bonney and this group proved to be longer lived than Fraud,  releasing the albums  “Raspberry Tongue” (Babel, 2010) and “Welcome To Bat Country” (Basho, 2012) before returning after a long hiatus with “Tomato Brain” read more...