Partikel take a unique and fresh look at the saxophone trio format, their exciting live performances lead them to being dubbed as One of the hottest young bands on the UK scene according to JazzWise.

Duncan Eagles is a London-based saxophonist who performs regularly at venues and festivals all over the world. As well as running his own groups, Duncan is also very much in demand as a sideman, and has performed with some of the top names and bands in the music world including Gary Husband, Zara McFarlane, Melt Yourself Down, Mark Mondesir, Ola Onabule and Janek Gwizdala.

Duncan's critically acclaimed band, Partikel, have released three albums to date, their second and third albums Cohesion and String Theory being signed on one of the world's most exciting labels, Whirlwind Recordings, and has been met with praise form the UK, European and USA press, Cohesion being hailed as one of the top 10 releases of 2012 according to renown critic Kevin Le Gendre and String Theory making it into the European Jazz Network Charts and also the Daily Telegraph's best albums of 2015.

Duncan is also part of many other projects, including the Benet McLean Band and the award winning Ollie Howell Quintet. As well as his extensive performing career, Duncan is also a tutor on the Dordogne International Jazz Summer School.

Max Luthert, bassist with Partikel, Zara McFarlane and Benet McLean, has made a reputation as one of the most in-demand bassists of his generation and is quickly making a name for himself as a composer and band-leader with his group Orbital. Max has performed at some of Europe’s most prestigious concert halls, festivals and clubs, and has worked with many of Europe’s leading artists that include Mark Mondesir, Kit Downes, Gareth Lockrane, Duncan Eagles and Peter Edwards.

At 9 years old he started learning classical piano and continued through junior and senior school but at 14 Max picked up the electric bass due to encouragement of his music teacher. He decided to take up the double bass shortly before he turned 18 to further his performance opportunities and instantly fell in love with the instrument and he went on to study with some of the UK’s finest bassists including Michael Janisch, Jasper Høiby, Steve Watts and Tom Mason where he learned the fundamentals of improvised music.

Eric Ford has had the good fortune to be involved in lots of interesting musical projects with musicians from many countries, since moving to London in September 2006. Prior to that, he lived in Paris for 4 years, which exposed him to lots of great music and musicians he might never have encountered otherwise (most especially, from North and West Africa, Madagascar, and from Cuba and Brasil). Prior to that, he travelled the world on cruise ships playing popular music from the 1920's to the present(ish!) with bands comprising 7, 5 or 3 musicians.

When he was a student (reading English at the University of Birmingham) he took drum lessons from legendary Birmingham player/teacher Malcolm Garrett and followed in the footsteps of Ian Palmer, Neil Bullock, Chris Dagley, Peter Cater and Steve Arguelles as drummer with the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra (MYJO), including backing many great guest soloists including Bud Shank, Bill Watrous, Nigel Hitchcock and Mark Nightingale and they won the BBC Big Band Competition.

He is a true professional in the broadest sense of the word, being able to play comfortably in many styles and settings. However it’s the breadth of what's possible on his instrument and in music generally, that he finds far more interesting than concentrating on one aspect, of one genre. He strives to be versatile (if the music being played permits), trying to come up with "bespoke" time patterns and grooves.

Guitarist Ant Law was a scholar at both Edinburgh University and Berklee College of Music (USA) until moving to London in 2008. He then picked up work with artists such as Tim Garland, Mica Paris, Gwilym Simcock, Leon Ware, Asaf Sirkis, Koby Israelite, Camille O’Sullivan, Eileen Hunter, and members of Incognito and Level 42. Ant’s debut album Entanglement was released on the 33Jazz record label in February 2013 to great critical acclaim, and the band then completed a 29-date UK tour, with support from Jazz Services. Ant completed the second volume of compositions whilst on tour in Brazil this summer. Ant toured Europe and the UK with Camille O’Sullivan throughout the rest of 2014.

Ant was delighted to be asked by Tim Garland to join a multitude of esteemed musicians including John Pattituci, Jason Rebello, Geoff Keezer, Asaf Sirkis, Kevin Glasgow, John Turville and The Royal Northern Sinfonia Strings on his new double CD entitled Songs To The North Sky, out on Edition Records.

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