Video of the day: Judith & Dave O’Higgins share His’n’Hers album preview

While jazz is known for its musical families (from Montgomery to Marsalis among many others) simpatico husband and wife projects are a rarity – which is why the partnership of Judith and Dave O’Higgins is particularly notable. Dave O’Higgins has been a leading light of the UK jazz scene for the last 30 years, a highly in-demand player with 22 albums to his name, he’s worked with a who's who of international names and remains a longtime member of the Darius Brubeck Quartet, while Judith O’Higgins has managed to juggle her many high-calibre jazz projects alongside her work as a forensic pathologist and author.

For His’n’Hers the pair are pitted against each other for a friendly tough-tenor face-off which celebrates similar good-humoured encounters between such as sax greats Johnny Griffin and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis. The album includes three new originals and three “greatest hits” from their two-tenor book, honed over a few years of gigs, with the pair backed by a hard-swinging UK trio of Graham Harvey (piano), Jeremy Brown (bass) and Josh Morrison (drums).  

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The album is released on Friday 23 October on CD, digital & vinyl – check out the exclusive preview video below: