Ralph Freeman Quartet ft. Steve Waterman

Gigs · Torquay

Ralph Freeman Quartet ft. Steve Waterman

Wednesday 21 October 2026 · Doors 19:30

TORQUAY LIVERMEAD CLIFF HOTEL

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Ralph Freeman Quartet ft. Steve Waterman is on Wednesday 21 October 2026 at TORQUAY LIVERMEAD CLIFF HOTEL, with doors at 19:30. Tickets start at £11, including the booking fee.

This exciting quartet features some of the UK’s leading jazz musicians playing a programme of their own distinctive take on some classic and contemporary jazz material along with recent compositions from Freeman himself. Ralph Freeman, now based in London, founded the St Ives Jazz Club in 1996.  As well as performing with his own London based trios and quartets, he has worked with and supported many of Britain’s leading jazz musicians. Steve Waterman studied at Trinity College of Music, since when has worked regularly on the British and European jazz scene with John Surman, Andy Sheppard, Tony Coe, Carla Bley, Don Weller and many others. He has recorded many critically acclaimed CDs under his own name as well as a number of CDs under the ECM label with John Surman’s Brass Project and Carla Bley.    He has won numerous BBC British jazz awards over the years and is very committed to Jazz education. He is professor of Jazz Trumpet at Trinity College of Music in London and visiting Jazz Trumpet specialist at The Royal Northern College Of Music and The Welsh College Of Music And Drama.

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