MALCOLM EARLE-SMITH
trombone & voice
8:00 p.m.* Friday 12 June
* NB Warm-up band from 7:30
to be confirmed
to be confirmed
Malcolm Earle-Smith has been a well established name on the London Jazz scene for over 20 years. After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music in 1989, he joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, later becoming lead trombone. Since then, he has gone on to work with a variety of jazz and pop artists including Kenny Baker, Jack Parnell, Digby Fairweather, Henry Lowther, Frank Griffith, Martin Speake, Martha Reeves and Ronnie Spector. Malcolm has also recorded and toured extensively with Bryan Ferry. He appears on two of Ferry’s albums: As Time Goes By (1999), and more recently, The Jazz Age (2012). In 2008-9 Malcolm appeared at Shakespeare's Globe as onstage trombonist in Che Walker's play The Frontline.
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Currently, Malcolm is working on two new projects: Nevada Street Four, a quartet which specialises in 20s and 30s Jazz, and "Malcolm Earle-Smith Sings" a project which features his vocals in a more contemporary setting. Malcolm has released two albums under his own name: Lyric Trombone (Malcolm Earle-Smith Quartet, 1996), and Things are looking up (2008), on which he features as trombonist, vocalist and composer.
Malcolm is also a committed and well respected teacher. At present he is senior lecturer in jazz at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and professor of jazz trombone at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
MALCOLM EARLE-SMITH tromboneSimon Cook pianoAndy Masters bassMartin Pyne drumsphotos by Oom Cook
Posted by Bracknell Jazz on Saturday, June 13, 2015
warm-up band for Malcolm Earle-Smith, featuringJAMES AKERS, tenor saxCHARLIE HUTCHINSON drumsphotos by Oom Cook
Posted by Bracknell Jazz on Saturday, June 13, 2015