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Dave Stapleton - Piano / Ben Waghorn - Saxophones / Jonny Bruce - Turmpet / Paula Gardiner - Double Bass / Elliot Bennett - Drums

Following their successful debut album in 2005, DSQ have developed into a band of considerable musical invention and originality. Their music is a mix of the warm, contemporary jazz of the ECM label, the film scores of Philip Glass, the avant-garde of Keith Jarrett and the groove of The Cinematic Orchestra.

“Dave Stapleton is a real find for British Jazz…a young musician of real maturity and vision…it’s the breadth of his talent that’s most encouraging. He writes exceptionally well drawing on his classical training as well as jazz and he’s hungry to explore the possibilities of free improvisation…There’s something refreshingly unstuffy about Dave Stapleton’s sources of inspiration. There’s Jarrett and Hancock, of course, Dave Holland and Joshua Redman but also the American Minimalists like Phillip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley”. JAZZWISE

"Stapleton is one of the most refreshing, sophisticated and intelligent young jazz composers working today. Innovative, infectious and utterly compelling, the future of new British jazz is in safe hands". THE WESTERN MAIL

"Dave Stapleton's quintet performed tunes from their current CD, 'When Life Was In Black and White'. Allowing his European classical background to shine through in compositions of arresting melodic continuity, his band succeeded not so much through individual voices, but by the strength of their collective musical personality." THE OBSERVER

“Idiosyncratically powerful reappraisal of both post-bop and free-jazz” THE GUARDIAN

“ECM-ish, filmic originals from distinctive Cardiff-based pianist as heard on his excellent recent album, 'When Life Was Black And White'”. TIME OUT

DSQ – The House Always Wins – OUT SEPT 10th