The Guildhall Jazz Festival in association with the EFG London Jazz Festival features current and past students, Guildhall Jazz teachers and special guests in a celebration of the wealth of creativity and originality within the Guildhall Jazz community.

Sandler/Woods Quintet - Benjy Sandler (reeds), Julian Woods (guitars), Oren Marshall (tuba), Cubby Howard (cello), Corrie Dick (drums)

Guildhall postgraduate students Benjy Sandler and Julian Woods have been united by their interest in the work of the great American improviser Henry Threadgill. Bringing together the same instrumental lineup of Threadgill’s celebrated group Zooid, the quintet will explore music by Threadgill as well as their own original compositions, which feature a wide variety of influences from Ben Johnston’s string quartets in Just Intonation, to Charles Ives’s piano works, to delta blues great Robert Johnson and guitar hero Jimi Hendrix.