The Hannah Horton Quartet

wall2wall Jazz Festival
Friday 27th September 2024: 8pm
Melville Centre, Abergavenny

Black Mountain Jazz Club are delighted to welcome Parliamentary Jazz Award winning saxophonist Hannah Horton and her band to open our wall2wall Jazz Festival 2024.

Hannah Horton is an artist who goes her own way. As an award-winning, Selmer endorsed. saxophonist and composer, a bandleader, and a successful recording artist, her strong, clear tone, powerful rhythmic sense and compelling sense of melody make her an unmistakeable voice on the scene.

Recognition from the musical establishment has come in the form of awards, endorsements
and diplomas, but it’s the way that audiences respond to her unashamedly positive,
uninhibitedly personal music, and the emotional honesty of her accessible, engaging take on
jazz that delivers the definitive accolade.

Hannah’s music always prioritises melody and a sense of playfulness to create a very
personal take on jazz that is informed.

She founded J-Steps, a jazz ensemble for female and non binary improvising musicians, and received the 2023 Parliamentary Jazz Award for Jazz Education Of The Year in recognition of her accomplishments.

Alongside her own artistic career, education and giving back to the community has always
been an important part of Hannah’s musical identity. “Music is where I’ve always found happiness. It’s my happy medicine! I had some wonderful support when I was learning, but I’ve also learnt what it’s like to not be supported, so giving support to young players is so important to me.”