Lewis Sallows

LEWIS SALLOWS is a saxophonist, improviser and composer based in London, hailing from Hertfordshire. His projects range from the song-based Lewis Sallows Project, to his Crosswire Project, (an ambitious, cross-disciplinary project combing jazz and landscape artwork). He’s currently working on music for his new octet, featuring some of London’s finest musicians, to debut later this year. As an up-and-coming presence within the UK jazz scene, he has hosted weekly jam sessions at 1000 Trades and held a monthly residency at the Loft Lounge during 4 years living in Birmingham, through which he has performed with renowned musicians such as Percy Pursglove, Andy Panayi & Jay Phelps, also performing regularly with The Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra and The National Youth Jazz Orchestra. He is a very active composer, having recently written a suite of music for chamber orchestra and saxophone, inspired by the landscape artwork of Lawrence Coulson. This suite premiered alongside projections of Lawrence’s artwork in March 2019 at Centrala, in Birmingham. He writes for his own groups which perform in London and has had work performed at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Trondheim Jazz Festival in Norway and Elb Jazz Festival in Hamburg. Lewis graduated from The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with a 1st class honours degree in 2019 and is currently studying for a master's in jazz performance at The Royal Academy of Music.