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Live Sessions · Vol. IV

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Intimate recordings captured in the world's most revered jazz venues. Each session — a singular, unrepeatable moment.

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Midnight in Blue

Recorded live at Smalls Jazz Club — New York City

Dec 2024
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Piano performance at Ronnie Scott's London
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Ronnie Scott's

London
Nov 14, 2024
Trumpet solo at Village Vanguard New York
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Village Vanguard

New York
Oct 28, 2024
Bass performance at New Morning Paris
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New Morning

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Drum session at Blue Note Tokyo
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Blue Note

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Duc des Lombards

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Discography

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Midnight Crossing
Latest Release

2024 · Featured Album

Midnight Crossing

"Recorded over three nights at the legendary Village Vanguard, Midnight Crossing captures the raw electricity of a band pushing boundaries at 2AM. Each track is a conversation between light and shadow, between what is played and what is left unsaid. This is jazz as it was meant to be heard — intimate, unpredictable, and utterly alive."

Tracklist

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Indigo Prelude
02
Midnight Crossing
03
Velvet Hours
04
The Last Ferry
05
Blue Meridian
06
Smoke & Amber
07
Nocturne No. 7
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Dawn Chorus

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Atlantic Bridge

2022

Atlantic Bridge

Amber Sessions

2021

Amber Sessions

Live at Ronnie's

2020

Live at Ronnie's

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About the Artists

The Ensemble

Est. 2019

Four cities.
One current.

The ensemble was born not in a rehearsal room but in a series of chance encounters — a late-night session at Ronnie Scott's, a festival afterparty in Montreux, a shared taxi in Copenhagen that turned into a three-hour conversation about Coltrane's later recordings.

What emerged was something rare: a transatlantic dialogue between musicians from London, New York, Paris, and Copenhagen — each carrying the distinct musical DNA of their city, yet united by a shared conviction that jazz is a living, breathing language. Not a museum piece. Not nostalgia. A current.

We don't play together — we listen together. The music happens in the spaces between the notes.
— Marcus Webb
The Musicians

Meet the Players

Marcus Webb — Saxophone
New York

Marcus Webb

Saxophone

A graduate of Juilliard with a tone that critics have called 'liquid midnight.' Marcus spent a decade on the New York scene before crossing the Atlantic, bringing with him the raw energy of Harlem's underground clubs.

Elise Fournier — Piano & Keys
Paris

Elise Fournier

Piano & Keys

Classically trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, Elise found her voice in the smoky jazz caves of the Left Bank. Her harmonic language bridges Debussy and Monk with effortless grace.

Tobias Lindgren — Trumpet
Copenhagen

Tobias Lindgren

Trumpet

The Nordic cool of Tobias's playing masks a volcanic intensity. Raised on Scandinavian folk and American hard bop, he creates a sound that is entirely his own — crystalline, searching, and deeply felt.

James Okafor — Bass
London

James Okafor

Bass

The gravitational center of the ensemble. James's walking bass lines carry the weight of tradition while his solo work ventures into uncharted territory, drawing from West African rhythms and British electronic music.

The Philosophy

Music as
conversation.

Every performance is a negotiation between structure and freedom. The ensemble arrives with compositions — sketches, really — that provide just enough architecture for the music to stand, and just enough open space for it to breathe, wander, and surprise.

The result is music that feels both composed and spontaneous — like a late-night conversation between old friends who still have the capacity to astonish one another. It is jazz as it was always meant to be: alive, unpredictable, and profoundly human.

London · New York · Paris · Copenhagen
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A masterclass in restraint and raw emotion — every note lands with the weight of a lifetime lived in the margins of midnight.
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Between the vinyl grooves of Harlem
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