Kevin Flanagan

Saxophonist Kevin Flanagan will be performing as part of the Cambridge Jazz Festival 2025.

Kevin comes from Lowell, Mass. USA. After dropping out of high school (whoops), he co-founded the group Antares, an jazz and improv-based cooperative which toured New England and the UK in the mid-70’s to early 80’s. During this period he was also involved in blues and popular music, both in performing and recording sessions. He settled in the UK in the early 80’s and worked on the London jazz and pop scene; playing, touring, and recording with various rock and pop artists, as well as West African High Life and Salsa groups. He shifted primarily to jazz, playing with his own group and the Tommy Chase Quartet at festivals in the UK such as Glastonbury, Brecon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Brighton and festivals in Europe in Milan, Paris, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and the North Sea Jazz Festival. He has put out two CD’s of compositions with Chris Ingham, Zanzibar and Textile Lunch, and, working with David Gordon, two CD’s, Riprap and Snow-Blue Night. This is in addition to working both with poets in commissions from the TS Eliot Festival, John Clare Festival, and other events, and as an instrumental quartet playing around the usual venues. He has had works commissioned by the SPNM and others performed by orchestras and ensembles in London and Cambridge.