Saxaphone Dave O'Higgins
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"A world-class player."
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

"Dazzling post-bop tenorist with a magnificent range and a dramatic turn of phrase."
THE GUARDIAN

"Dave’s bright, colourful sound on soprano saxophone is a joyous experience."
STRAIGHT NO CHASER

"Dave O’Higgins work on alto, tenor and soprano saxes was just a revelation."
BELFAST TELEGRAPH

"…young, presentable, can play his socks off,"
THE SCOTSMAN

"His enthusiasm and ability to turn up and turn on the style to order has earned him a strong reputation."
GLASCOW HERALD

"He is rightly acknowledged as one of Britain’s finest contemporary jazz musicians."
THE OBSERVER

"A stunning player in the neo-bop vein, with an apparently effortless flow of coherent ideas, beautiful time and a highly developed harmonic sense."
JAZZ GUIDE

"His professional presentation was an object lesson to the amateurishness of local players. His musicianship seemed boundless. Like his friend Martin Taylor did last year to our guitarists, Dave O’Higgins did to our sax players – gave them new and exciting challenges. And gave us mere listeners an exceptional night."
ADELAIDE ADVERTISER, AUSTRALIA

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Reviews
"Saxophonist Dave O’Higgins has long been acknowledged as one of the turks on the live jazz scene, a stylish and passionate player."
VOX

"O’Higgins plays with quite exceptional fluency and his fund of ideas never runs out."
The OBSERVER

"An understandably popular figure on the London scene, O’Higgins is a virtuoso jazz/fusion saxophonist."
TIME OUT

"Resplendent in a striped jacket and shiny shirt that would have looked really groovy in Carnaby Street in 1965. O’Higgins inventive Coltrane influenced playing on both tenor and on soprano impressed enormously."
The IRISH NEWS

"The most exciting of our young tenor soprano modernists."
JAZZ MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL