Jazz Club welcomes back one of the best musicians in the UK this weekend

PANGBOURNE Jazz Club welcomes back one of the best musicians in the UK on Sunday (7.30 pm).

Trombonist Mark Nightingale is one of its firm favourites.

He began on trombone at age nine and played in the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in his teens. He attended Trinity College of Music from 1985 to 1988.

His first band as leader was trombone quintet 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.

Mark 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.

He will be backed by the club’s Terry Hutchins Quartet:

Jim Pollard (piano)

Andy Crowdy (double bass)

Terry Hutchins (guitar)

Brian Greene (drums)

Entry £12.50. No need to book just go along. The club meets at Rosewood Hall @ The Pangbourne Working Men’s Club in Whitchurch Road.