MUSICAL DIRECTOR
2009
  ANDREA VICARI

ANDREA VICARI

www.andreavicari.com

  Bmus. PGCE. DJGSM  Musical Director + Piano
 
Born in Miami Florida, educated at Cardiff University and The Guildhall in London where she formed her first important group with Julian Arguelles & Stuart Hall on Bass. She has since released four CDs in her own name, "Suburban Gorillas"; "Lunar Spell"; "Tryptych" and 2007s "Mango Tango".....

"a brilliant young British talent" Humphrey Lyttleton

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  SPECIAL GUEST TUTOR  
  MORNINGTON LOCKETT

MORNINGTON LOCKETT

www.morningtonlockett.co.uk

 
BA (hons) Masterclass Tutor 2009
 

Tenor saxophonist Mornington Lockett studied at Dartington College Of Arts in  Devon before moving to London to attend the Guildhall School Of Music And  Drama. As a member of the Ronnie Scott Sextet, Mornington worked extensively  in Britain and abroad. He has recorded with Ronnie Scott, guitarist Jim  Mullen, drummer Martin Drew, singers Sarah Jane Morris, Claire Martin and  Ian  Shaw and US bass guitarist, Jo Hubbard. He is a visiting professor of saxophone at the Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London.

" One of the most accomplished contemporary improvisers ...with a fearsome technique and an advanced harmonic approach " Time Out

" Sounds like Hendrix on sax " Noel Gallagher

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  INGRID LAUBROCK

www.ingridlaubrock.com
  Saxophone and woodwind tutor
  Ingrid Laubrock is one of the founder members of the prestigious F-IRE Collective, winners of the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation; also recently featured on BBC 2's "Culture Show". In 2005 Ingrid was nominated for the BBC Jazz Award. Her latest album "Sleepthief", is a collaboration with pianist Liam Noble, and USA drummer Tom Rainey. She has worked with "Polar Bear", "Human Chain"; Kenny Wheeler; Billy Cobham...

“Wonderful compositions and searching playing”
Joe Lovano

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  QUENTIN COLLINS


www.quentincollins.com
  Trumpet tutor
  Quentin Collins has recently joined a new group "TransAtlantic Collective" and is currently a member of the Mike Garrick Big Band, Jean Toussaint quintet, and has just released his debut CD as a leader, "If Not Now, Then When ?" Quentin lists Booker Little, Duke Ellington and Alex Spiagin amongst his musical influences. Recently seen on a nationwide tour with drummer Dylan Howe's band and in his own band featuring Micheal Janisch and Jim Hart....

"Collins brings a bright crisply articulated
Lee Morgan-esque intensity to proceedings
..and a soft, brassy lyricism"
John Fordham, The Guardian

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  MALCOLM EARLE SMITH
  BA(hons). Trombone tutor
Malcolm Smith

www.malcolmearlesmith.com
 

New Orleans music, Swing, Bebop, Contemporary jazz, Blues, Soul: Malcolm Earle Smith is equally at home playing all jazz styles. Well known for his work as trombonist, vocalist, composer and teacher, he is one of the most versatile and entertaining musicians on the London scene.

Central to Malcolm’s inspiration is his passion for jazz tradition, his depth of musical knowledge, his commitment to ensemble playing and his honest, stylish delivery. His sound is expressive and lyrical, rooted in tradition but strongly influenced by contemporary language.

"there are no barriers to his joyful appreciation of the whole span of jazz history...the only qualification is that the music is ‘real’ – not motivated by posture, fashion of notes for their own sake".
Digby Fairweather

 
  DAVE GELLY

www.davegelly.co.uk
  MBE MA (Cantab) Saxophone and woodwind tutor
 

Award-winning writer and broadcaster, Dave Gelly is the author of numerous books, including 'Being Prez: the Life & Music of Lester Young' and 'Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me'. Dave Gelly has played or recorded (on tenor, clarinet and bass clarinet) with a bizarre collection of people, from Sir Richard Rodney Bennett to Arthur ’Big Boy’ Crudup, including along the way Neil Ardley, Kenny Baker, Maynard Ferguson, Jack Bruce, Keith Emerson, Art Themen and John Cleese (don’t ask).

"Dave Gelly is a fine, natural jazz musician"
Humphrey Lyttelton: The Best Of Jazz, BBC R2

  Dave learned clarinet as a kid, but is largely self-taught on saxophone. Jazz studies consisted of listening to records for hours on end, from the age of 12, and trying to figure out what was going on. Now has a pretty good idea of what’s going on, from
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band to the second Miles Davis Quintet, and he will endeavour to explain on request. Believes in swing, melody and playing from the heart.

"His saxophone playing is like his writing -
carefully crafted and always to the point" Jazz UK

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  RHYTHM SECTION
   
  JONATHAN BRATOËFF

JB

www.jonathanbratoeff.com

  Guitar Tutor
 

Since moving to London in 1998, French born guitarist, Jonathan Bratoëff has recorded three albums. His first outing Episodes (2000), the critically acclaimed album 'Between Lines' ( 2004 ) and the latest project 'Points of Perception' ( 2005 ) due for release in April 2006. He is currently leading various projects: duo, trio, a quartet, a quintet and a septet.
As a popular sideman on the London jazz scene he has played with Orphy Robinson, Soweto Kinch, The Synergy Big Band amongst others. He is currently playing Porpoise Corpus and the Pharoah S Russell Quartet. He is also a member of the F-IRE collective......

"Bratoëff's brittle phrasing and rhythmic energy put him up there with leading UK guitarists such as Mike Outram, Phil Robson and Mike Walker' The Guardian

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  DORIAN LOCKETT
DORIAN LOCKETT
  Course director, Bass Tutor
 

Dorian studied at the Guildhall School of Music before carving out a career on the London Jazz scene. He taught bass-guitar for five years at Morley College in London and led jazz workshops at Kingsway and Camden institute....

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  NIC FRANCE Nic France
  Drum Tutor
 

Loose Tubes founder member and session drummer extraordinaire; Nic has worked with Ian Carr's Nucleus, Allan Holdsworth, Jim Mullen, Martin Taylor, Ronnie Scott, Kenny Wheeler, Hank Crawford, David ‘Fathead’ Newman (Ray Charles’ sax player), John Taylor, Gordon Beck, L. Shankar, Mose Allison and appeared on a T.V.drum clinic with Billy Cobham.

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  SCOTT VICARI
SCOTT VICARI
  BA (hons) Drum Tutor
 

EMI signed singer Scott Vicari returned to the UK to pursue his love of jazz drumming. USA born, he was educated at Middlesex University where he produced a show for the Edinburgh festival ....

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www.andreavicari.com
 
  Bmus. PGCE. DJGSM  Musical Director + Piano
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