DENYS BAPTISTE
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Few artists can claim to have been awarded the prestigious double of a Mercury Music award nomination and a Mojo award in their careers. DENYS BAPTISTE, one of Britain's most talented jazz musicians, acheived both in the same year. After working with some of the biggest names in jazz and other musical genres (the great Courtney Pine describes him as "one of the strongest tenor saxophonists this country has ever produced"), Denys released his first solo album, Be Where You Are, on Dune records in 1999. In September of that year the album was nominated for the Mercury Music Award for album of the year alongside the likes of the Chemical Brothers, Blur and the Manic Street Preachers. A month later Denys was awarded the Mojo award for Best Jazz Act.
Denys is an amazingly versatile musician and, although his roots are steeped in the jazz tradition, he incorporates ideas from other musical forms and popular culture, producing a repertoire which is contemporary, multi-layered and highly accessible. He is also an enormously talented composer/arranger, whose brilliant compositions have already earned him much credit and respect in the jazz world.

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