Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren

Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren are internationally renowned improvisers, whose work covers a wide variety of styles. Both have won the BBC Jazz award for innovation and have been at the cutting edge of the UK jazz scene since the mid 1980's. They currently record for ECM as part of Quercus (with singer June Tabor) as well as other international collaborations.

Iain Ballamy has been a major contributor to aspects of improvised music in Britain for three decades, leading his own quartet at Ronnie Scott’s when just 20. He was a co-founder of Loose Tubes, the innovative large ensemble and has had long-standing associations with Django Bates and Billy Jenkins.

Ballamy has played with many major figures in international jazz including Hermeto Pascoal, Gil Evans, Dewey Redman, Mike Gibbs and more.