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Women in Jazz Media present: Betty Accorsi Quartet and Growing Roots at Karamel
“… simply elegant, superbly crafted, sumptuously melodic jazz…” (All about Jazz…
WHEN Betty Accorsi arrived in London to study jazz saxophone at Trinity Laban College, she found a home in Greenwich in the shadow of the renowned tea clipper the Cutty Sark.
For Accorsi, the dry-docked hulk “represented a sense of belonging to the greater, more diverse community that I found in London.”
Born in Milan in 1989, she initially studied classical saxophone but it was two jazz saxophonists who most inspired her: “Wayne Shorter and his beautiful playing of the soprano saxophone and also his ability to compose.
“And I love the English saxophonist John Surman for his extraordinary open mind and how he combines jazz with electronics and English folk music.”