Graeme Wilson is a saxophonist whose playing features on over 30 albums including releases by his own Quartet, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, ACV, Ushaw Ensemble and Bill Wells. His writing for ensembles large and small, including six jazz works for John Warren’s Voice of the North Jazz Orchestra, has been performed at venues such as Sage, Gateshead and Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden. Recent work includes duo releases A Cast of Thousands with Raymond MacDonald and Shoes for Losers with Andy Champion; an album of songs based on Italo Calvino stories for new group Monsterosa featuring vocalist Rebecca Hollweg; and  a score commissioned by Hexham Jazz Festival for the silent film Die Bergkatze. He has performed with the likes of Fred Frith, Marilyn Crispell, John Faddis, Julian Siegel and Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and co-leads the improvised music and dance collaborative Something Smashing. The FMR release of his work with sculptor Cath Keay for Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, A Bit in the Air, was nominated for Scottish Jazz Album of the Year in 2018. He has written and lectured widely on the psychology of improvisation; The Art of Becoming (with Raymond MacDonald) is published by Oxford University Press (2020)