ALBERT NEWTON is immediate, compelling and enticing. Initially a quartet comprising Harry Beckett trumpet, Pat Thomas keyboards, John Edwards double bass and Charles Hayward drums. This strong music continues and develop across a wide range of audiences and spaces including palatial cultural cathedrals, social dance events and scruffy South London pubs, a conscious strategy to break divisions put in place by an avante garde elite eager to maintain a cultural schism that confirms an avante garde elite

Since the death of Harry Beckett in 2010, the group remain a trio, leaving intriguing and mysterious gaps in the music, working its way slowly back from a ‘music of absence’ towards a place of resistance and communal joy live in the moment: verve, groove, conviction and strength

ALBERT NEWTON: 3 extreme and imaginative musicians in a joyous celebration of creative telepathy building music beyond

ALBERT NEWTON: the quantum confronts the funk