Composer. Improvising-trombonist.

“In a dark, time this music will make you smile...This is the most joyous sound I’ve heard in ages!
New York Times

“Really quirky, fun, dynamic…Wow! gives your senses a bit of shake. I tell you, I had to listen a number of times, absolutely terrific.”
James McDougall - BBC Radio 3

Like minimal but loads more notes like video-games but with more song like jazz but much more gay like old gay music but more current like yummy sweet but more stick like paint but more scratch like tapestry but filthily like prayer but more loud like loud groove and more rude like fingers and faces too but somehow more smelly like smelly things cooking with more chew and change like louder prayers that groove with like stinking-hot-pink in poo-brown but even more desperate-like than that like drums and Dream Musics

“Operatic Game Boy music played by a virtuosic motley crew that’s inexplicably been hired to provide live jingles for a primetime TV show sometime in the recent past that never quite was ” 

Point of Departure

"Turbulent and joyful ... surfing on the crest of this exuberance is an extraordinary experience" 
The Wire

- Paxton’s Ilollipop with Ensemble Modern.

“Manic, brilliant, beauty.”

Listen Poney Records

“Formidable virtuosity. It seems to be a meditation on virtuosity: Paxton’s own take on Charlie Parker-style bebop or Paganini”

“Alex is a bloody phenomenal composer and visionary”


“one of the most exceptional voices from a new generation of UK talent”

The Philharmonia Orchestra

the Wire Magazine

I love music!

Munchy munch chew chew chew gulp spittle teeth graunch grind chop smack smile blood love and laugh; the language of mastication that binds the offal of man-kind into a faggot, regardless of epoch religion and race.

Love food, love music, love.
Joy.Yes.Yum. Mmmm...

"Unique, inventive, brave and arresting”

Worshipful Company of Musicians Jazz Prize

“Eccentric & inventive with more than a touch of anarchy.”

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Photo: Walter Vorjohann

Manymore recordings are available here: Work/Listen