Dave O’Higgins Quartet
Jazz Saxophonist, Composer & Educator
Winner, British Jazz Awards “BEST TENOR SAX” 1995 and 1997
Best Band Nominee, BBC Jazz Awards 2001 and 2002
Currently performing all over the world with Dave O’Higgins Quartet/Quintet/Sextet Biggish Band
Revered among jazz musicians in London, Dave O’Higgins has played, toured &/or recorded with US 3, Incognito, Salif Keita, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, Martin Taylor, Jim Mullen, Matt Bianco, Sarah Jane Morris, The National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Mezzoforte, Roadside Picnic, Jason Rebello, Clark Tracey Sextet, Itchy Fingers, Interzone, Matthew Herbert, Peter Gabriel, Jamie Cullum ……and many more. His career to date has also seen him busy in the studio scene with jingles, TV themes, movie soundtracks, etc.
"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












