THE SUNDAY MATINEESunday 23rd February 20253:00PM - 6:00PMFREE ENTRY (DONATIONS REQUESTED)
Mark Nightingale with Jamie Glew-Osborn Trio
Mark Nightingale is an English jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger. He began playing trombone at age nine, and has since gone on to perform and/or record with some of the world's most iconic singers of the last century, including Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, Paul McCartney, Michel Le Grand, Tony Bennet, Peggy Lee, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Julie Andrews, James Galway, Steely Dan, Sting, Kylie Minogue, Cher, Robbie Williams, Tom Jones, Tina Turner, Take That, Eric Clapton, Westlife, Pet Shop Boys, Blur, McFly, Wet Wet Wet, The Spice Girls, Elton John, Ray Brown, Clark Terry, James Morrison, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth, Kenny Wheeler, Stan Tracey, George Shearing, Georgie Fame, Mike Davies, Charlie Watts, Bill Frisell, BBC Big Band, etc. etc. .... phew! Take a breath!
Career
He began on trombone at age nine, and played in the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in his teens. After attended Trinity College of Music from 1985 to 1988, his first band as leader was a trombone quintet called Bonestructure. Since then, he has gone on to front various sized groups from quartets and quintets to a big band featuring his own compositions and arrangements. Nightingale toured and recorded with James Morrison in Europe from 1994 to 1997. He has had longstanding musical relationships with John Dankworth, Stan Tracey, Alan Barnes and Andy Panayi. Nightingale composed for trombone and other brass instruments, his published works include 20 Jazz Etudes (1995), Multiplicity (1996) Easy Jazzy Tudes (1998), Turning Back the Clock (2004), and Urbieplicity (2010). He played trombone on the album Ten Summoner's Tales by Sting.
Mark performs as a soloist and in several groups and bands including:- The Mark Nightingale Quintet, The Mark Nightingale Big Band, The Sound of J&K, The Andy Panayi Quartet.
Mark also provides bespoke arrangements and undertakes writing commissions. His compositions have been featured at international trombone festivals across the world, and also a great deal with the BBC Big Band, with whom he has occasionally been a guest conductor over the years. Cleo Laine was so taken with his composition Just Once More that she put lyrics to it and recorded it live at Carnegie Hall.
Awards:
‘Rising Star’
1993
‘Best Trombonist’
1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Playing and Recording
Mark has played or recorded with the following artists:
Jazz
Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, Clark Terry, James Morrison, Slide Hampton, Conte Candoli, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth, Kenny Wheeler, Dado Moroni, Carl Fontana, Jiggs Whigham, Claire Martin, Andy Panayi, Scott Hamilton, Nigel Hitchcock, Laurence Cottle, Ken Poplowski, Clark Tracey, Alan Barnes, John Surman, Stan Tracey, Lee Konitz, George Shearing, Mike Gibbs, Georgie Fame, Bill Holman, Wycliffe Gordon, Mike Davies, Charlie Watts, Bill Frisell, Bob Florence, Peter King, Warren Vache, BBC Big Band, WDR Big Band, NDR Big Band, Colin Towns Mask Orchestra, Louie Bellson,
Pop
Steely Dan, Sting, Kylie Minogue, Cher, Robbie Williams, Tom Jones, Tina Turner, Take That, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Westlife, Pet Shop Boys, Blur, McFly, Wet Wet Wet, The Spice Girls, Elton John,
Other
Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, Michel Le Grand, London Brass, New Trombone Collective, Tony Bennet, Peggy Lee, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Julie Andrews, James Galway, London Sinfonietta, London Brass Virtuosi, Reg Vardy Band
The line-up for the show:
Mark Nightingale - trombone
Jamie Glew Osborn - guitar
Tom Purr - bass
Stuart Russell - drums
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