Tomorrow’s Warriors +1 featuring Nathaniel Facey
A long-time member of the Tomorrow’s Warriors family, Nathaniel Facey, is one of the UK’s most impressive saxophonists, he has worked with the likes of Jack DeJohnette and Jason Moran and is a founding member of the multi award-winning group Empirical.
Nathaniel will be joining Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging artist Ky Osborne, leading his KO Quartet.
Ky Osborne already has a growing reputation as an up-and-coming jazz pianist, and he approaches jazz from new angles, exploring both his roots in Senegalese Mande music and his fascination with modern hip hop. His playing harkens back to greats such as Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal, but brings his own outgoing, modern perspective.
The KO Quartet have already begun to establish themselves as a quartet. In 2024, they played together at the We Out Here Festival, The Vortex, The EFG London Jazz Festival and recently at the Bath Jazz Festival to rave reviews.
For over 30 years, Tomorrow’s Warriors has played a vital role within its community and the wider music industry and has been credited with literally changing the face of UK jazz.
Free access to Tomorrow’s Warriors artistic programme has proved crucial in nurturing the nascent talent and early careers of so many of the most exciting UK artists currently tearing up the international jazz scene including Mercury Prize 2023 winners Ezra Collective, Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings and Sons of Kemet, ESKA, Jason Yarde, Denys Baptiste, Robert Mitchell, Soweto Kinch, Shirley Tetteh, Byron Wallen...the list goes on.
A Black-founded and Black-led organisation, Tomorrow’s Warriors is based at Southbank Centre in London and offers a pioneering, comprehensive programme of learning and training which champions and supports young Black and female talent and those who come from challenging circumstances that would be a barrier to accessing opportunities to pursue a music career.
Doors will open from 6:30pm.
Tickets: £10 General Admission / £8 Student Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road*