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“Sublime interplay [...] superb melodies, subdued compositions with a pinch of humour” (Monica Rijpma JazzNu, NL) the Sam Newbould Quintet is an award winning international group based in Amsterdam.

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With an almost instinctive musical connection and a deep sense of trust on stage and in the studio, the band have been invited to perform at North Sea Jazz Festival (NL), Love Supreme Festival (UK), BIMHUIS (NL), and London Jazz Festival (UK) amongst others. 

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The band's most recent Edison-nominated album Homing is inspired by - and named after - Newbould's temporary adoption of a Polish homing pigeon, as well as his own reflections on building a life abroad. Combining humour with sadness, drama with banality, and virtuosity with simplicity, Homing is Newbould’s most personal and unapologetically bold musical statement yet. ‘Unlike the homing pigeon, my feeling of home isn’t tied to a particular place anymore, and the album is inspired by that process of building a new feeling of home.’

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On 16th October 2026 the band will release One day we'll have a window, their fourth studio album. In a world that can often feel fractured, on One day we’ll have a window, Newbould traces the small threads of human connection back into focus. As he describes it, the title became about learning to “see through the walls that are dividing us, and see each other just for what we are.” Not politically. Not ideologically. Simply humanly.

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While the quintet forms the album’s core, One day we’ll have a window also reveals a broader side of Newbould’s musical vision. Vocals, flute, synthesizer textures and intimate self-produced solo pieces expand the record’s sonic palette, creating a work that is both deeply personal and richly collaborative.

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