"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."
