Cambridge Jazz Festival: Emma Rawicz Cloudwaker

Emma Rawicz was the 2023 Cambridge Jazz Festival Artist in Residence, and Cambridge welcomes her back to perform a headline show with her new project Cloudwalker. Emma Rawicz is a young musician already lauded for a sound and maturity far beyond her years. This project allows these qualities to shine in the fullest way possible, and will no doubt serve as a launch pad for her further evolution as an artist and as an instrumentalist. Drawing on wide-ranging and diverse influences from Nordic jazz and contemporary classical harmony to rock music and Brazilian grooves, the musical material is unique and nuanced. Cloudwalker is a project that builds yet further on this reputation, with utter commitment to improvisation and spontaneous creation at the heart of her music. The tenor saxophone acoustic quartet is a timeless line-up that has been tried and tested throughout the history of jazz and improvised music. Seeking to make her own unique statement in this format, Rawicz has assembled a formidable and truly international band of Rasmus Sørensen, Freddie Jensen and Marc Michel to explore the boundaries of what is possible in the quartet. Line-up · Emma Rawicz – saxophone · Philip Dizack – trumpet · Rasmus Sørensen – piano · Freddie Jensen – bass · Marc Michel – drums “A force to be reckoned with” — Jazzwise “An astonishing new talent” — Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2 “Extravagantly gifted and mature beyond her years.” — The Irish Times “Inventively risk-embracing… continues her warp-speed evolution.” — John Fordham, The Guardian “Rawicz comes in full bloom, an artist with a great vision and voice that uplifts the spirit and taps the soul.” — DownBeat