While woodwind multi-instrumentalist John Surman's eponymous debut was a strange mixture of everything from free improvisation to calypso, his second date, 1970's How Many Clouds Can You See?, is a ...

Born in Tavistock, Devon in 1944, composer/multi-instrumentalist John Surman is one of the key figures in a generation of European musicians who have crucially expanded the international horizons of ...

Childhood influences - from choral and folk music to John Coltrane - grow increasingly audible in the British reeds virtuoso and composer John Surman. But the intertwining of those European and ...

The English trio S.O.S. — saxophonists John Surman, Mike Osborne and Alan Skidmore — was formed in 1973, and made only one LP for the Ogun label a couple years later. They didn't last long, but they ...

John Surman’s on-stage bonhomie soon surfaced in the warmth of his scoring for the Trans4mation String Quartet, led by violinist Rita Manning. Plaintive strings introduced the melody of “Moonlighter”, ...

Ivan Hewett watches two giants of European Jazz, Tomasz Stanko and John Surman, play back-to-back at the Barbican. Ivan Hewett 16 May 2013 • 2:08pm Tomasz Stanko performed with John Surman at the ...

A whine of guitar opens veteran UK saxophonist John Surman’s latest collaboration with the Bergen Big Band, though here it comes with a swish of brushes, a sheen of muted trumpets and a jaunty riff ...

John Surman's large-scale Proverbs and Songs was specifically composed for John Taylor and the Salisbury Festival Chorus, for the 1996 Salisbury Festival. This premiere was recorded by the BBC and ...

I have so much I want to ask John Surman when I meet him that I'm not actually sure what to ask him. I've been buying John Surman records since I was 14, since I was buying Bowie, Bolan and Roxy, Mott ...

In a special programme recorded in front of an audience at the 2009 London Jazz Festival, British saxophonist John Surman joins Alyn Shipton to look back over his recording career. Show more Recorded ...