ALEXANDRA RIDOUT
Trumpeter | Bandleader | Composer
debut EP available now.
KEEP AN EYE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ AWARD ‘BEST SOLOIST’ 2023
PARLIAMENTARY JAZZ AWARDS NOMINEE 2020
BRITISH JAZZ AWARDS ‘RISING STAR’ 2018
BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN JAZZ AWARD 2016
Alexandra Ridout was crowned the winner of the BBC Young Musician Jazz Award 2016 at the age of 17. “We were enchanted by Alexandra’s presence as a musician, her sound, but I think most importantly there was a relationship with the blues and swinging that sounds important in her playing”
– Julian Joseph, Chair of the jury of the BBC Young Musician Jazz Award 2016.
“Pretty much from the first note you know that you’re dealing with an original voice”
- Matt Penman (celebrated US resident bass player) announcing the winner of the Keepan Eye International Jazz Award
Debut EP ‘Remote Duets’
A Duo EP of Original Music written and recorded remotely.
Alexandra Ridout - Trumpet and Compositions
Miles Mindlin - Guitar
Latest Album releases:
JACKSON POTTER QUINTET unreleased
ZOE RAHMAN – Colour of Sound
ALEX HITCHCOCK– Dream Band Live in London
OK AURORA - Only in Autumn
PAUL BOOTH –‘44’ “it’s the young in years but rich in delivery Alexandra Ridout who steals the show” (Jazzwise)
Discography
The Light that shines
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra
2020
Remote Duets EP
Alexandra Ridout
2020
Polyhymnia
Yazz Ahmed
2019
Home from Home
The Delegates
2019
No Doubt
Clark Tracey Quintet
2018
Wildness (Deluxe Edition)
Snow Patrol
2018
No Excuses
Tom Ridout
2017