We’re really pleased to welcome to The Bear Club saxophone player Maddy Coombs - a Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist and already tipped as a rising talent on the British jazz scene by Jazzwise in the summer of last year.
Maddy has been mentored by Binker Golding, Denys Baptiste and Gary Crosby and has played alongside Judi Jackson, Soweto Kinch, Mark Kavuma, and Sultan Stevenson.
Leading her own line-up, she has performed at a host of venues and festivals including Brighton Jazz Festival, We Out Here Festival, Pizza Express Soho, Spice of Life, and with Jazz:Refreshed, including their Sounds of 2025 event at London’s iconic Jazz Café.
Maddy is already building a reputation as a brilliant composer and arranger with her own music drawing inspiration from many artists including Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, Melissa Aldana and Joel Ross amongst others.
This performance is part of The Bear Club’s “Generation Jazz” series of gigs showcasing brilliant young jazz musicians across the summer and autumn of 2025. Discounted ticket pricing applies for those under 25, students and universal credit beneficiaries.
Tonight also forms part of Tomorrow’s Warriors’ Warriors Rise initiative, which sees the acclaimed jazz talent development organisation support three emerging Warriors’ artists, including Maddy, 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.
More about Tomorrow’s Warriors
For over 30 years, Tomorrow’s Warriors has played a vital role within its community and the wider music industry and 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 including 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 which 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.
“Maddy Coombs…mesmerised and uplifted.”
“Tomorrow’s Warriors have changed the musical landscape of Britain. It’s as simple as that.”
Doors 7pm / Music 8.30pm / Tickets £16/£10 for members/£8 under 25s, Students and UC beneficiaries (proof required on entry)
All seating/tables are first come first served.