Jasmine Myra
Thu, 15 Sept
|The Crescent Community Venue
Emerging from the burgeoning Leeds jazz scene, Jasmine Myra (fka Jasmine) is one of the brightest burning talents that looks set to take over the UK Jazz scene following her signing by Matthew Hallsall to his Gondwana Records label.
Time & Location
15 Sept 2022, 19:30
The Crescent Community Venue, 8 The Crescent, York YO24 1AW, UK
About the event
Jasmine Myra Thursday 15th September, 7.30pm Tickets are £8 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.
Emerging from the burgeoning Leeds jazz scene, Jasmine Myra (fka Jasmine) is one of the brightest burning talents that looks set to take over the UK Jazz scene following her signing by Matthew Hallsall to his Gondwana Records label. After previously visiting with Tete De Pois, she returns to the Crescent to tour her new album Horizons.
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Jasmine Myra is a saxophonist, composer and band leader, based in Leeds. Part of the bustling, creative, cross-genre music scene in the city she has surrounded herself with some of the best young talent in the north of England. Her original instrumental music has a euphoric and uplifting sound, influenced by artists as diverse as Bonobo, Olafur Arnalds and Kenny Wheeler, artists whose music shares an emotive quality that you can also hear in Myra’s own compositions.
She has recently signed to Gondwana Records and has been working with A&R and producer Matthew Halsall, whose keen ear for talent helped bring the music of GoGo Penguin, Mammal Hands and Hania Rani to the wider world.