SIMON ALLEN
saxes
MARK NIGHTINGALE
trombone
7:30 pm Friday 3 September
in the Recital Room
(with reduced capacity)
Multi award-winning jazz trombonist Mark Nightingale is now a firmly established favourite on the UK jazz scene, and has gained a reputation as one of the top-flight jazz trombonists in Europe and worldwide. Mark has had longstanding musical associations playing in bands lead by John Dankworth, Cleo Laine, Stan Tracey, Kenny Wheeler, Andy Panayi, Clark Tracey, and Alan Barnes over the years. He also fronts various small groups and a big band of his own, featuring his own compositions and arrangements. Mark is also a busy studio musician in London and has played on hundreds of movie soundtracks, and has been fortunate to play and record with some of the greats in all genres of music. These include Ray Brown, Clark Terry, Scott Hamilton, James Morrison, Bill Holman, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Watts, Sting and Steely Dan. He is best known to many young players for his growing catalogue of educational studies and short pieces published by ‘Warwick Music’, and used extensively by the ABRSM and Trinity/Guildhall in their music exam syllabi.
"This guy should be paid by the note!" — Sammy Nestico
"This guy should be paid by the note!" — Sammy Nestico
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Simon Allen began his career with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Pendulum Jazz Orchestra, performing alongside the likes of Jazz Stars Art Themen, Gerard Presencer, Jamie Cullum and Peter King.
After being a winner in the Daily Telegraph ‘Young Jazz’ competition, and a finalist in the ‘Young Jazz Musician of the Year’, Simon gained a place at the Royal Academy of Music, and was selected to join UK drummer Clark Tracey's acclaimed Quintet, winning further awards and touring the UK over 7 years.
Simon is also a member of the Laurence Cottle All Star Big Band, and works with Colin Towns Mask Orchestra for the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Matthew Herbert Big Band, touring around Germany, China, Belgium and Poland. He has appeared at major UK venues and festivals including Ronnie Scott’s, the Barbican and Brecon Jazz Festival, and worked with an astonishing array of top musicians from the jazz and pop world.
Between 2005-2013 Simon was featured in the late Stan Tracey CBE’s various groups, and is featured on his final two quartet recordings, as well as octet and big band album releases. Simon appeared on Jools Holland’s “Later” TV show performing a track from the album "Senior Moment".
In 2014 Simon was appointed Head of Jazz at the prestigious Purcell School of Music
“Allen, the latest in a long line of gifted Tracey saxophone -recruits, brings a searing urgency...... with Allen injecting an -anthemic soul-jazzy heat (an unfamiliar -ingredient for a Tracey album)” - John Fordham, The Guardian
“He knows how to produce a luminous, floating tone on alto sax, has an impressive technique, and constructs his solos with maturity and confidence” – Sholto Byrnes, The Independent
After being a winner in the Daily Telegraph ‘Young Jazz’ competition, and a finalist in the ‘Young Jazz Musician of the Year’, Simon gained a place at the Royal Academy of Music, and was selected to join UK drummer Clark Tracey's acclaimed Quintet, winning further awards and touring the UK over 7 years.
Simon is also a member of the Laurence Cottle All Star Big Band, and works with Colin Towns Mask Orchestra for the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Matthew Herbert Big Band, touring around Germany, China, Belgium and Poland. He has appeared at major UK venues and festivals including Ronnie Scott’s, the Barbican and Brecon Jazz Festival, and worked with an astonishing array of top musicians from the jazz and pop world.
Between 2005-2013 Simon was featured in the late Stan Tracey CBE’s various groups, and is featured on his final two quartet recordings, as well as octet and big band album releases. Simon appeared on Jools Holland’s “Later” TV show performing a track from the album "Senior Moment".
In 2014 Simon was appointed Head of Jazz at the prestigious Purcell School of Music
“Allen, the latest in a long line of gifted Tracey saxophone -recruits, brings a searing urgency...... with Allen injecting an -anthemic soul-jazzy heat (an unfamiliar -ingredient for a Tracey album)” - John Fordham, The Guardian
“He knows how to produce a luminous, floating tone on alto sax, has an impressive technique, and constructs his solos with maturity and confidence” – Sholto Byrnes, The Independent
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