Debut Album by drummer/composer/producer Tristan Banks, draws on over 30 years of experience as a sideman for many grammy award winning and platinum selling artists. Mixing influences from the jazz, latin jazz and fusion idioms, the music is a unique combination of high-octane virtuosic performance and sublimely melodic composition. Banks unifies his long standing musical friends Paul Booth, John Crawford and Davide Mantovani to articulate his musical vision. Tristan’s debut album is due to be released on the Ubuntu Music record label on March 31st 2023.

“The idea was to push the acoustic jazz quartet format to the limit, being able to re-image the possibilities that the classic saxophone, piano, bass, drums line-up can manifest, and by being conscious of the sonic traditions that are typically replayed to confirm the listeners tastes while avoiding the genres timbral qliches.”

 “I have always had an interest in music that makes you move as well as simulating the mind with musical interplay and deeper compositional concepts, so the idea was to select tunes that I had written over the last 15 years and record them in a live performance setting with no click track or isolation recording techniques. This created a perfect environment to generate and capture the musical energy of the performance.”

“Ubuntu feels like the perfect fit for me, with many of my musical friends releasing their music through the label, and as the UK jazz scene goes from strength to strength I’m really happy to be working with Martin to bring my music into the world.”

View From Above

Tristan has worked as a recording artist and session musician building a reputation as a knowledgeable, versatile and authentic world-class drummer and percussionist. Working with many artists covering a wide field of musical genres including David Gilmour, Roy Ayers, Dave Valentin, Idris Mohammed, Mike Lindup, Marcos Valle, Da Lata, Carleen Anderson, Jim Mullen, Pete King, Guy Barker and Liane Carroll.

Cidade Alta

Mark Edwards - Keyboards, 
Braulio Araujo - Double Bass, 
Tristan Banks - Drums, Percussion, Composition, Producer. 

Recorded in Recife- Brazil, Brighton- England 
©Chestnut Records

Batida

Tristan has worked as a recording artist and session musician building a reputation as a knowledgeable, versatile and authentic world-class drummer and percussionist. Working with many artists covering a wide field of musical genres including Roy Ayers, Dave Valentin, Idris Mohammed, David Gilmour, Marcos Valle, Da Lata, Carleen Anderson and Mayra Andrade