Adele Sauros is an active and versatile saxophonist, composer and bandleader within the European jazz scene.

Adele frequently performs as a bandleader and sidewoman with numerous groups such as the Adele Sauros Quartet, Superposition, JAF Trio, Quite Vivian, Katu Kaiku and Jonathan Bäckström Quartet to name a few. Sauros has performed throughout Europe in many renowned jazz festivals.

Her recordings as a leader:
Quite Vivian: Fragile People (Loumi Records 2026)
Adele Sauros: No Room For Hesitation (Bopcat Records 2025)
JAF Trio: The Urge to Survive (Eclipse Records 2024)
Adele Sauros: Your Special Loss (Fresh Sound Records 2024)
Katu Kaiku: Broken Piece (Eclipse Music 2023)
Adele Sauros: I Paint You (Fresh Sound Records 2021)
JAF Trio: JAF Trio (We Jazz Records 2020)
Katu Kaiku: Luna (Svart Records 2019)
Adele Sauros: My Spontaneous Mind (2016)
Katu Kaiku: Tokyo / Kuopio (2016) and Adele Sauros Quartet: It’s Who I Am (2014).
As a sidewoman:
Superposition: II (We Jazz Records 2024)
Jonathan Bäckström Quartet: Jonathan Bäckström Quartet (We Jazz Records 2024)
Superposition: Superposition (We Jazz Records 2020)
Focusyear2023 (Jazzcampus Basel 2023)
The Fresh Sound Ensemble: Common Threads (Fresh Sounds Records 2023) 
Aurora Hentunen Quartet: Second Spring (2018)
Laura Annika Quartet: Metsä (2017)

Sauros has received numerous grants and rewards and she has earned her Master’s degree in Music at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.

Sauros’ music captures her Nordic heritage and conveys this rich storytelling tradition with a musical voyage full of emotions.


”Sauros daringly combines delightful melodic and warm saxophone playing with a capacity to be beguilingly oblique and deliciously piquant.” - Dick Hovenga, London Jazz News

”Sauros is clearly a new voice in jazz that you should follow” - Jan-Erik Holmberg, Hufvudstadsbladet


Contact

adele.sauros@gmail.com

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