James Allsopp Quartet – I’m a Fool To Love You

James Allsopp is a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose genre busting quintet “Fraud” exploded on to the Jazz scene in 2005 to instant critical acclaim. Their Cheltenham Jazz festival gig of 2006, as part of the Jerwood Rising Stars programme, was voted one of the gigs of the year by Jazzwise magazine, and they have since gone on to record a special session for BBC Radio 3’s “Jazz on 3” programme and have won both the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation 2008 and the Ronnie Scott Award for best New Act 2007.

Fraud’s Debut album received many critical plaudits including being described as “the future of improvised music” by Jazzwise Magazine and “what the term cutting edge was meant for” by the Guardians John Fordham.