Mark Nightingale

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Mark Nightingale
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Background information
Birth nameMark Daryl Nightingale
Born (1967-05-29) 29 May 1967 (age 56)
Evesham, Worcestershire, England
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, arranger
Instrument(s)Trombone
Years active1980s–present
Website mark-nightingale.co.uk

Mark Daryl Nightingale (born 29 May 1967) is an English jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.

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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. [1] He attended Trinity College of Music from 1985 to 1988. His first band as leader was a trombone quintet called Bonestructure and 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 has 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.

He has worked with or recorded with Louie Bellson, Ray Brown, Carl Fontana, Urbie Green, Scott Hamilton, Slide Hampton, Bill Holman, Lee Konitz, Cleo Laine, Claire Martin, Clark Terry, and Kenny Wheeler; Steely Dan, Kylie Minogue, Tom Jones, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Henry Mancini, McFly, Frank Sinatra, John Wilson, and Michel Legrand. He occasionally directs the BBC Big Band. [1]

He was design consultant for the first instrument made by Michael Rath Trombones. [2]

Awards and honors

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Alan Barnes

With John Dankworth

With James Newton Howard

With Claire Martin

With Andy Panayi

With Colin Towns

With Robbie Williams

With others

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References

  1. 1 2 "Mark Nightingale". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  2. "Artists". Michael Rath Trombones. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 "British Jazz Awards".
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Discography". Mark Nightingale. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  5. Nightingale, Mark. "Mark Nightingale". Woodville Records. Retrieved 6 February 2019.