December 2022





JAZZWISE: ALEX CLARKE QUARTET - "ONLY A YEAR" - ALBUM REVIEW



"Clarke is a rising star according to the British Jazz Awards and here's the evidence. As Scott Hamilton says, "She sounds comfortable and inspired". And he's right."


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October 2022





JAZZ VIEWS: ALEX CLARKE QUARTET - "ONLY A YEAR" - ALBUM REVIEW



"With this her second album, she has continued to up her game and delivered a fully realised set of standards that is difficult to fault. It certainly doesn’t hurt to recruit a top flight rhythm section of David Newton, Dave Green and Clark Tracey, but you still have to deliver the goods and this the saxophonist does with splendid results."


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October 2022





Jazz Views interview: "Alex Clarke – Keeping The Flame Burning Brightly"



"With the release of her second album,”Only A Year”, saxophonist Alex Clarke is keeping the bebop/hard bop tradition alive and well. In doing so, she performs fresh exciting music that draws from jazz’s rich past, with a contemporary feel that acknowledges influences and yet refuses to be confined by them.


The following interview reveals a young musician with a solid grounding in the music that she loves, and the ambition and determination to succeed in what can be perceived as a difficult and precarious profession."


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September 2022





The Jazz Mann: ALEX CLARKE QUARTET - "ONLY A YEAR" - ALBUM REVIEW



"This album focusses on her jazz credentials and she gives an impressively mature performance in her various capacities as soloist, arranger and composer. Of course, she's helped enormously by her more experienced bandmates, all British jazz royalty."


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January 18th 2021





Leamington Courier: Musician and Warwick School assistant gives presentation to rotarians



"Alex came to the attention of Warwick Rotarians when she was a finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020 competition broadcast at the end of last year.


Musician and Warwick School music assistant Alex Clarke who plays the saxophone, gave presentation to Rotarians in Warwick last week via Zoom."


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November 2020





Alex Clarke Performs at bbc young jazz musician of the year 2020 final



"Alex plays tunes by Bernice Petkere and Dave Brubeck along with her own composition."


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November 20th 2020





Former King's School Pupil Makes bbc Young Jazz musician of the year final



"The former King's School high flyer, who finished her A Levels in 2018, is hoping to make it a double of top awards, having won the British Jazz Awards Rising Star Award last year. She is now preparing her 15-minute set for the judging panel of jazz aficionados for the BBC competition to be broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday November 22."


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January 2020





STOKE SENTINEL: Rising star award puts Alex's Jazz career in full swing!



"Musician 'hugely honoured' to appear on list with heroes.


Among her inspirations are U.S clarinettists Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Dorsey and Edmond Hall, saxophonists Phil Woods and Sonny Stitt - plus Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen."



December 5th 2019





KING'S ALUMNA WINS JAZZ's NATIONAL RISING STAR AWARD



"King’s alumna Alex Clarke has won the ‘The Rising Star Award’ in the 2019 British Jazz Awards.


The talented Jazz saxophonist and former King’s pupil landed the top prize in what is regarded as one of the blue-ribbon categories for British jazz aficionados. Among the top award winners this year was the legendary Courtney Pine, so Alex is in very good company."


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July 2019





The Jazz Rag: 'The less Predictable Face of The Future'



"Ron Simpson talks to Alex Clarke whose path to becoming one of the UK's finest jazz talents has not been at all orthodox..."


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May 24th 2019





The Stoke Sentinel



January 23rd 2019





Sutton Coldfield Jazz Club: Rising Star Alex, A Welcome Guest



"Alex is one of the new breed of genuine, educated musicians who can ensure that our vintage jazz survives and prospers despite the changing musical taste of the masses and the reducing numbers of its original exponents...."


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December 30th 2018





BBC RADIO: Some Reflections of 2018



The best in Jazz with John Hellings and a listen back to some of this year's guests which include Kim Cypher, Alex Clarke, Wendy Kirkland. That's together with some music which includes Rob McConnell, Remi Harris, Tommy Smith, Wes Montgomery and a great finisher from Duke Ellington.


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September 2018





'Just Jazz' Magazine: "Hi, I'm Alex Clarke"



In a full autobiographical article, Alex discusses how she fell in love with jazz, what she has been up to, where she wants to go with the music.


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Sun 23rd September 2018





Alex Clarke in conversation



The best in Jazz with John Hellings talking to multi instrumentalist Alex Clarke with the sound of some of her music. In addition there's jazz from Stacey Kent to Archie Semple with some vintage radio recordings from Charlie Parker and Teddy Buckner and his All Stars.


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January 25th 2018





Rochdale news: Martin Bennett's Old Green River Band



"Backslapping aside, a special mention has been made of seventeen year old Alex Clarke, who those in the business professing to know about this sort of thing insist could be well on the way to becoming the next Amy Roberts. Praise indeed."


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October 30th 2016





Jazznorthwest Introduces Alex Clarke



In his latest Jazz North West Newsletter Fred Burnett introduced “a young lady causing quite a stir in the NW”.


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