Henry SpencerBest Henry Spencer Albums Ranked

The Defector

guardian

8.0

“British jazz continues to grow in myriad forms. Trumpeter Henry Spencer (no relation of mine) swapped Wiltshire for London and the Guildhall a decade back, going on to play across the capital’s jazz scene while holding fast to his desire to combine jazz with classicism and rock, an ambition deftly realised on The Reasons Don’t Change, his 2017 debut. The Defector is a bold, glorious shift upwards”