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Mel's Spell - Gareth Lockrane Big Band

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Released: Feb 17, 2010

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Mel's Spell - Gareth Lockrane Big Band
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Genre: Jazz
Location UK
Profile Views: 31569
Last Login: 9/27/2011
Member Since 9/17/2007
Website http://www.garethlockrane.com
Record Label Unsigned
Bio
.. ............Myspace Layouts.. - ..Myspace Editor.. - ..Image Hosting.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. I play flute, alto and bass flutes and piccolo and have been based in London since the mid-90's, when i moved down from Stoke on Trent to do the BMus jazz course at London's Royal Academy of Music,(alongside The Fishwick brothers,Tom Cawley, Osian Roberts and Henry Collins). I'm currently focusing on three groups of my own,the septet,big band and my hammond band "Gareth Lockrane's Grooveyard" - see new myspace page below. I completed my MA in film composing at the National Film&Television School in 2008;lots of the short films i've been involved in have gone on to appear and win awards at numerous film festivals and there's now a film showreel section on my website - http://garethlockrane.com/gareth-film-score-showreels.html. I've been very fortunate recently to have known and worked closely with the late great Bheki Mseleku in his last group from 2005-2008. I've also performed/recorded in the last few years with Jack DeJohnette, Incognito,The James Taylor Quartet, Corrine Bailey Rae, Billy Buckley's Wagon Train, Sirius B, Heritage Orchestra, Tom Richards Jazz Orchestra,Hans Koller and bands led by Phil Donkin, Kate Williams,Paul Booth,Dan Stern, Jon Opstad, Nia Lynn, Georgia Mancio, Natalie Williams and Gwilym Simcock. I participated in the Lake Placid jazz course a few years back and had tuition from jazz heroes Joe Lovano,Dick Oatts and Jim McNeely,i was a finalist in the Young Jazz Musician of the Year ages ago in 2000 and I've led the group Grooveyard with saxophonist Alex Garnett since 2002, which won Best European Jazz Group in 2003 in the Granada Jazz Festival. I was named Rising Star on Flute in 2008's Downbeat US Critics Poll,and was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and won Best Jazz Jazz Album in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards in 2010. - REVIEWS - “Lockrane’s flute work is exceptional, combining a relaxed fluidity with an acute adventurousness on the other.” JAZZWISE "the formidable Lockrane...a stunning display of sharp-accented runs, earthy whoops and constantly refreshed melodic ideas" JOHN FORDHAM,THE GUARDIAN "Lockrane is an exceptional soloist with an improvisatory confidence that's quite startling” PETER VACHER, JAZZWISE "...the flute, an instrument which has still not achieved a firm foothold in jazz. If the brilliant playing of Gareth Lockrane is anything to go by, that state of affairs may change...” DAVE GELLY, THE OBSERVER “..Flute phenomenon!...” JACK MASSARICK, LONDON EVENING STANDARD “a new star on his instrument” JIM MULLEN ..Gareth Lockrane lets rip...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ......Add to My Profile.. | ..More Videos..
Members
THE GARETH LOCKRANE SEPTET (NEW ALBUM "NO MESSIN" NAMED BEST JAZZ ALBUM IN 2010 PARLIAMENTARY JAZZ AWARDS - AVAILABLE FROM WWW.JAZZCDS.CO.UK) - Steve Kaldestad-tenor, (Alex Garnett - tenor in movies below) Robbie Robson - tpt, Trevor Mires - tbn/euph, Robin Aspland-piano, Matt Miles-bass, Matt Home - drums, me - flutes .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. ..GARETH LOCKRANE'S GROOVEYARD (NEW ALBUM ON THE WAY! END OF 2010) is Alex Garnett - tenor, Mike Outram - guitar, Ross Stanley - hammond organ, Nick Smalley - drums, me - flutes (NB - Pete Whittaker on hammond and Tom Gordon on drums for the 2 Grooveyard studio tracks on this page) .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. GARETH LOCKRANE BIG BAND is Steve Fishwick,Henry Collins,Robbie Robson,Craig Wild(tpts) Adrian Fry,Mike Feltham,Trevor Mires,Lewis Edney(tbns) Sammy Mayne,Paul Jones,Alex Garnett,Ben Sommers,Bob McKay (saxes) Mike Outram (gtr) Ross Stanley (piano/hammond) Ryan Trebilcock (bass) Tristan Maillot(drums)+me (flutes) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Website - www.garethlockrane.com
Influences
Coltrane, Bird, Cannonball, Miles, Monk, Mingus, Bill Evans, all the good guys - plus at the moment listening to James Clay,Roland Kirk, Jeremy Steig, Magic Malik, Prince, Eddie Harris, Herbie, McCoy, Ornette, Joe Farrell, Chick Corea, Mike Brecker, Jimmy Heath, Joe Lovano, Pepper Adams, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, John Scofield, Wes Montgomery, Clifford Jordan, Walt Weiskopf, Mark Turner, Seamus Blake, Houston Person, Basie, Steve Grossman, Stanley Turrentine, Frank Sinatra, Thad Jones, Dick Oatts, Rich Perry, Gary Smulyan, Frank Tiberi, Gil Evans, Bach, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Bartok. On the film music side i'm very into Jerry Fielding, Bernard Hermann, Basil Palidouris' "Robocop" score!, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Lalo Schifrin, and recently Theodore Shapiro's score for "Heist",very tasty.
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