Jazz Platform | Double bill: Genevieve Namazzi & Christ-Stéphane Boizi
The first in a new series showcasing the next generation of talent.
Jazz Platform features the brilliant Southampton Alumni Genevieve Namazzie and trombone star Christ-Stéphane Boizi.
Don’t miss The Vibe Lounge at 7pm in the Turner Sims Foyer. Join us for free live music!
Genevieve Namazzi
Genevieve Namazzi is a South-London raised bassist and Southampton University alumni. She is excited to return to Turner Sims with her newly formed quartet. She is joined by the rising-star saxophonist Maddy Coombs, pianist and exceptional talent Emily Tran, and dexterous drummer and fellow alumni Edmund Ashmore.
Her bold and creative compositions are an eclectic mix of modern jazz, modern classical and East African traditional. Her influences include Esperanza Spalding, Linda May Han Oh, Ron Carter, Rebecca Clarke, Vaughan Williams, and Mark Guiliana. Her rhythmically rich style of performance has been described by audiences as ‘uplifting, catchy and pensive’.
Combining lyrical sensitivity with catchy grooves, her music is an immersive experience. The quartet’s debut performance in October 2025 has led to many more performances since, including Brick Lane Jazz Festival.
Christ-Stéphane Boizi
Chris-Stéphane Boizi is a trombonist, composer, bandleader, and a Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist, already making his mark on the London jazz scene. His his reputation is set to soar with the news that he has signed to Mark Kavuma’s Banger Factory Records label. His debut LP is scheduled for release later in the year.
His sound is steeped in the hard bop tradition, carrying influences of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, and Jackie McLean. His own compositions are a sonic exploration, bringing the music of the Black Church together with that hard bop Jazz tradition.
Christ-Stéphane is also member of the acclaimed Nu Civilisation Orchestra. He was a featured soloist in ‘Mississippi Goddamn’, a celebration of Nina Simone at the Royal Festival Hall, and he performed with Brazilian maestro Arthur Verocai at the Barbican.
This performance is part of Tomorrow’s Warriors’ Warriors Rise initiative, which sees the acclaimed jazz talent development organisation support three emerging Warriors’ artists, including Christ-Stéphane, across a seven-date run of UK gigs, providing tour planning and marketing mentoring.
Warriors Rise is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Network Partner initiative supported by PPL.
Tomorrow's Warriors occupies a unique and vital space in our cultural landscape. Their work in helping positively shape future generations is of critical importance especially with the tribulations we currently face. Please keep supporting - each one, teach one!'
About Tomorrow’s Warriors
Over the last 35 years, Tomorrow’s Warriors has played a vital role within its community and the wider music industry. It has been credited with literally changing the face of UK jazz.
Free access to Tomorrow’s Warriors artistic programme has proved crucial in nurturing the nascent talent and early careers of so many of the most exciting UK artists currently tearing up the international jazz scene. These include Mercury Prize 2023 recipients and BRIT Awards Best Group 2025 winners EZRA Collective, Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings and Sons of Kemet, ESKA, Jason Yarde, Denys Baptiste, Robert Mitchell, Soweto Kinch, Shirley Tetteh, Byron Wallen…the list goes on.
A Black-founded and Black-led organisation, Tomorrow’s Warriors offers a pioneering, free to access, comprehensive programme of learning and training. It champions and supports young Black and female talent and those who come from challenging circumstances that would be a barrier to accessing opportunities to pursue a music career.
Band A: £15 (£13.50 Friends)
Band B: £10 (£9 Friends)
Students and Under 18s: £5
Schools £5
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Genevieve Namazzi Quartet
Genevieve Namazzi double bass
Maddy Coombs saxophone
Emily Tran piano
Edmund Ashmore drums
Christ-Stéphane Boizi Quintet
Christ-Stéphane Boizi trombone
Lauren Breen alto saxophone
Jacob Wilson tenor saxophone
Kezia Abuoma piano
Thomas Sheen double bass
Sacha Harlan drums
