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Julian Smith (born 21 April 1969 from Birmingham) is an English saxophonist and music teacher from Birmingham, England.He is also known by his stage name Joolz Gianni. [1] He has made guest appearances alongside artists such as Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet), Gwen Dickey (), Hamish Stuart and Steve Ferrone (Average White Band), and has performed on national television together with Chris Rea, M ...
Gillam is the youngest ever presenter on BBC Radio 3 and the first saxophonist to be signed to Decca Classics [6] Her debut album RISE reached No.1 in the UK Classical chart. [7] She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music. [8]
Clarke is an alumna of the UK-based National Youth Jazz Collective, attending the Short Course in 2015 and the 7-day Summer School in 2016, 2017 & 2018. [6] Notable tutors she has gone on to work with regularly include Karen Sharp , Alec Dankworth and Steve Waterman and Clarke herself is now a tutor for NYJC.
S. Robert Saint; Brinsley Schwarz (musician) Andy Scott (saxophonist and composer) John Scott (composer) Jack Sharpe (musician) Robert Shaw (poet) Andy Sheppard
In 2002, Smith performed his earlier and much lengthier re-invention of Children's Songs for saxophone and orchestra with the Scottish Ensemble at St John's Kirk, Perth. [8] Other classical music endeavours have included a massive undertaking for the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra's 40th anniversary in 2003.
Sons of Kemet, a quartet of saxophone, tuba and two drummers, launched with the album Burn in 2013, followed up with Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do in 2015, both on the Naim Jazz label, before moving to Impulse! for Your Queen Is a Reptile in 2018, which coincided with a breakout into wider public consciousness of the UK jazz scene ...
Edward Brian "Tubby" Hayes (30 January 1935 [1] – 8 June 1973) [2] was a British jazz multi-instrumentalist, best known for his virtuosic musicianship on tenor saxophone and for performing in jazz groups with fellow sax player Ronnie Scott and trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar. [3]
Hitchcock began to play alto sax at the age of eight. [1] In 1982 he and his elder brother Clive joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. After one year Nigel took the lead alto chair for the next five years. During this time the orchestra toured with different musicians such as Vic Damone, Buddy Greco and Al Martino.