Everyone in music knows Alan Barnes as one of our greatest jazz musicians, winning many awards, playing clarinet, alto & baritone saxophones, both in smaller intimate jazz clubs and on larger concert hall stages with equal creativity, all with charismatic, engaging humour. He is also an outstanding music writer and arranger, with two previous brilliant jazz suites, evoking the wonders of Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” and Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes”, playing to packed houses in the EFG London Jazz Festival at St James and at Dean Street.