| MUSICAL DIRECTOR | 2008 |
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| ANDREA VICARI |
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| 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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| ALAN BARNES | SPECIAL GUEST |
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| MASTERCLASS TUTOR 2008 (WEEK TWO) | |||
Top UK sax star Alan Barnes, has agreed to drop in to WEEK TWO of the
course to present a master class, teach a bit of sax and perform for
us. He'll be along toward the middle of the second week only “A tonic for the ears... among the most accomplished
of jazz musicians” The Daily Telegraph |
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| WEEK ONE | 19/07/08 |
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| QUENTIN COLLINS | |||
| Trumpet and brass tutor (week one) | |||
| Quentin Collins 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 featuring Brian Edwards, and in his
own band featuring Micheal Janisch and Jim Hart....
"Collins brings a bright crisply articulated |
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| MARK LOCKHEART |
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| Saxophone and woodwind tutor (week one) | |||
| Mark came to prominence in the mid 1980s with the influential
and radical big band Loose Tubes and Django Bates's "Delightful Precipice".
Since then he has been at the forefront of UK music performing and recording
with jazz, folk and pop artists June Tabor, Billy Jenkins, Stereolab, Jah
Wobble, Robert Wyatt, Prefab Sprout, Don Um Romao ,Thomas Dolby, and more
recently Anja Garbarek and Radiohead. He co-leads Perfect
Houseplants and is a vital member of Seb Rochford's Polar
Bear.
"Lockheart is a comsummate saxophonist and a versatile and original composer" The Rough Guide To Jazz |
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| WEEK TWO | 26/07/08 |
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| INGRID LAUBROCK |
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| Saxophone and woodwind tutor (week two) | |||
| Ingrid Laubrock is one of the founder members of the prestigious
F-IRE Collective, winners of the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation 2004; also
recently featured on BBC 2's "Culture Show". In 2005 Ingrid was
nominated for the BBC Jazz Award (Rising Star category). Her latest album,
a collaboration with pianist Liam Noble, will be released in early 2006.
She has worked with "Polar Bear", "Human Chain"; Kenny
Wheeler; Billy Cobham...
“Wonderful compositions and searching playing” |
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| MALCOLM EARLE SMITH | |||
| BA(hons). Trombone and brass tutor (week two) | |||
| 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. "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". |
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| BOTH WEEKS | |||
| DAVE GELLY | ![]() www.davegelly.co.uk |
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| MBE MA (Cantab) Saxophone and woodwind tutor (both weeks) | |||
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"
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| 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 - |
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| RHYTHM SECTION | |||
| JONATHAN BRATOËFF | |||
| Guitar Tutor (both weeks ) | |||
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. "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 | ![]() |
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| 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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| SCOTT VICARI | ![]() |
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| 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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| ANDREA VICARI | |||
| Bmus. PGCE. DJGSM Musical Director + Piano | |||
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