Allison Neale

American born altoist Allison Neale’s beautifully crafted lines evoke the spirit of Paul Desmond and Art Pepper with whom she has a particular affinity. Regarded as one of the finest exponents of the melodic West Coast style, she has performed alongside leading international artists such as Adelaide Hall and Bud Shank, US tenorist Scott Hamilton and more recently in collaboration with New York guitarist Peter Bernstein, who appears on her critically acclaimed new CD ‘Quietly There’. She has performed in both the John Dankworth ‘Generations Band’ and also the ‘Two of a Mind’ project alongside multi reed man Chris Biscoe of Mike Westbrook fame and tours the UK with her current Quartet.