Tenor Madness is a piano trio project that takes Renaissance and Baroque themes and improvises on them in the modern idiom, much as all musicians of previous centuries would have done. Two musicians unusually steeped in both Baroque and jazz music - leading pianist, harpsichordist and composer David Gordon and bassist and broadcaster Sandy Burnett – are joined by brilliant drummer Tom Hooper (Grace Jones, Simple Minds, Omar, Sir John Dankworth). Tenor Madness have been awarded a Britten-Pears Foundation Creative Retreat in Aldeburgh, worked on choral collaborations during a residency at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, improvised on themes from Bach motets alongside a Bedford Park Festival choir, and enlivened London's jazz clubs with their free-flowing brand of music making.

The most recent gig was part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, at 7:30pm on Friday 17th November, an inventive reworking of the music of William Byrd in his 400th anniversary year - details are here. Plans for 2024 include a collaboration with Cambridge early music consort L’Isola and an application to the Britten Pears Arts Artistic Residency program.