Greg Abate News

It was a Monday night in London. The club owner had done zero promotion. There were four people in the audience.

Some music is intensely physical - not just to dance to, like the tango, or moshing at a punk show - but because playing it is a test of fitness.

HAILED as one of the most appealing sax players on the US jazz scene and a leading purveyor of 'cool' jazz, Greg Abate makes a very welcome return to the Mermaid, Eggbuckland on Sunday night.

Back by popular demand for his fifth year, American musician Greg Abate is widely considered among jazz writers and aficionados to be one of the best post bebop alto saxophonists out there.

Amazingly, after all these years there have been lots of new faces at Leicester University's Cafe Piazza recently, writes Chris Beggs .