After being crowned the winner of the BBC Young Musicians Jazz Awards in 2016 and countless performances alongside multiple award-winning star musicans, Alexandra Ridout brings her relatively new, collaborative project ‘The Alexandra Ridout Trio’ to PizzaExpress Live.

Alexandra Ridout was crowned the winner of the BBC Young Musician Jazz Award 2016 at the age of 17 and has been wowing audiences ever since. Recent highlights include a European Tour with the Grammy nominated, Blue Note signed all star band Artemis,

performing in Europe with award winning pianist Pablo Held and with star bass player Orlando Le Fleming’s band ‘Romantic Funk’, winning the Prestigious Laurie Frink career grant 2022, performing with legendary saxophonist Dayna Stephens’ combo deluxe band, performing with ECM artist Kit Downes, and world renowned drummer Jason Brown.

Tonight Alexandra brings her international Trio to perform at The Pizza Express Jazz Club as part of the world renowned EFG London Jazz festival

The Alexandra Ridout Trio is a relatively new project which is collaborative in nature. “We all have similar avenues of influence in the music we like and write, whilst each having our own unique input. The sound of trumpet in the drumless trio is fairly rare and we have worked on making a trio sound that resonates with us. The trumpet can be so versatile and this trio explores a lot of that. We play a mix of original music written specifically for this trio sound as well as some of our favourite music that we play in our own way.”

The composition was originally written for 2014’s Steinway festival, held at London’s PizzaExpress Jazz Club. The success of this performance led the pianists to record the album at the Yamaha Piano Rooms in Midtown New York in January 2016.