Wildflower is Idris Rahman on Saxophone, Leon Brichard on Bass and Gene Calderazzo on Drums. Using simple, arresting melodies as a starting point, the trio ride freely improvised waves of breathtaking passages, powerful peaks to hauntingly beautiful moments.

Wildflower take inspiration from spiritual jazz pioneers such as Alice and John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra, with compositional influences ranging from Gnawa music to modal jazz to Bengali folk music. However, the scope is wider still and the important unifying factor is the spontaneous communication and interplay between the three musicians. Rather than having set structures, tunes are allowed to breathe and develop into new unexplored forms, with space to reinterpret ideas ultimately meaning each performance is different, each moment is new.

Having self-released three albums to critical acclaim – the first of which was nominated for Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide album of the year – and sharing members with Ill Considered and Sons of Kemet, Wildflower are a ground-breaking force in the much-celebrated UK jazz scene.