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ALEX PAXTON

Composer. Jazz-trombonist. Artist.

MANIFSTO: Make magic sound stuff


“a riotous, hot pink overabundance of love and rage” The Wire
“In a dark, time this music will make you smile...This is the most joyous sound I’ve heard in ages!”
New York Times
“A Magician of Sound...i was seduced...hyperkinetic rainbow-hued...it is joy & freedom.”
Financial Times (Happy Music for Orchestra Review)“Paxton will Make your ears ping..brings brightly coloured, loopy joy to our ears..sweet energy & frantic humour...It’s jazzy & noisy & oddly serious.” The Guardian
“The Sunday Times’s best classical albums of 2025 so far...
wild and wacky to a new level...invigorating...classical, jazz, pop, baroque, minimalist, maximalist, acoustic, electronic - are stirred together and served up in 13 delicious dollops...” The Sunday Times
“a Brit who defies every conceivable genre boundary…an extremely modern and future-oriented style.”
Paul Hindemith Prize winner 2023
"a highly innovative...of exceptional creative imagination and musical energy, packed with life force unlike anything else.”
Ivor Novello British Composer Awards. Winner 2021, BBC music Magazine
“Unbridled joy…sophisticated, passionate music full of pulsating energy and stylistic diversity.“ Ernst von Siemens Composition 2023
“Riot and a rainbow...brimmingly heartfelt multi sensorial, genuinely energising fizzer.... Super charged joy...forces us all to sit up and loosen up and buck up.” New Music Show BBC 3. Kate Molleson “Seriously intoxicating music” Arts Desk
“Paxton is a monster improviser “Bandcamp Daily Best Contemporary Classical.

“This is what an orchestra can be like in the 21st century:
an ensemble that speaks with one voice yet also gives voice to each of its members”
The Times

“Fantastic delirium...An effervescence of day glow energy that just can’t be resisted”
BBC radio 3
“extremely accessible in its tuneful generosity...astonishing formal rigor, sophistication, and an unerring ear for pop hooks...... a seriously entertaining and invigorating activity.”
Bandcamp Album of the Day (Delicious)
 “ Surfing on the crest of its exuberance is an extraordinary experience”
The Wire
““fantastically bananas free-jazz-orchestra maximalism ….. unmapped technicolour territory as unique a vision as you might hear anywhere.” The Quietus

"Paxton is a system-crasher of genre, who merges jamming video game soundtracks, musical overtures, virtuoso chamber music and jazz improv into an unmistakable style...highly complex, sophisticated and extremely entertaining, virtuoso ad absurdum" Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik

Like minimal but loadsmore notes like video-games but with more song like jazz but much more gay like old gay music but more current like yummy sweet but more stick like paint but more scratch like tapestry but filthily like prayer but more loud like loud groove and more rude like fingers and faces too but somehow more smelly like smelly things cooking with more chew and change like louder prayers that groove with like stinking-hot-pink in poo-brown but even more desperate-like than that like drums and Dream Musics













Alex Paxton is represented by
Rayfield Allied worldwide.

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Alex Paxton’s Music is published by Ricordi
For Hire or Buy scores and parts from Ricordi + Licensing enquiries
CONTACT  Lasse Mueller

Lasse Müller
Manager Rental
t. +49 30 166359897
m. +49 175 412 81 85
Lasse.Mueller@umusic.com
“not only was extraordinary musically, but brought diverse communities together in ways that exemplified a new, creolized identity for classical music. Alex’s vision of new music could help to transform classical music into a true world music.” George Lewis quotation for
Hindemith Prize laudatory speech (Candy Folk Space Drum)