Jazz at the Vaults: Gilard Atzmon - Sax

For sheer improvisational fireworks, quirky humor and genre-defying invention he’s your man.

While Atzmon's main instrument is the alto saxophone, he also plays soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones and clarinet, sol, zura and flute. Atzmon's jazz style has been described as bebop/hard bop, with forays into and swing, and seemingly inspired by John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

He has collaborated with many artists. Atzmon joined the veteran punk rock band Ian Dury and the Blockheads in 1998, and continued with the Blockheads after Dury's death.  He has recorded and performed with Shane McGowan, Robbie Williams, Sinéad O'Connor, Robert Wyatt and Paul McCartney and Pink Floyd.

Gilard is a band leader in his own right and with various groups he has recorded over 20 albums.