What festival once featured a trumpeter who awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards.
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Royston Arts Festival Royston Arts Festival is a festival of the arts in Royston, Hertfordshire (UK). It was originally initiated and directed by the composer Richard Lambert (from 1982–1986) and was revived in 2007. It takes place annually in the last week of September. In recent years it has featured the trumpeter Alison Balsom, the theatre Director Robin Belfield, the author/illustrator James Mayhew, the poet Wendy Cope, Megson and the Daleks. In its earlier incarnation it was associated with the Master of the Queen's Music, Malcolm Williamson, who premiered at least one work at the festival. Voluntary arts groups who regularly contribute to the festival include the Corvus Amateur Drama Society (CADS), Royston Town Band, Royston Arts Society and Royston Photographic Society.
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Alison Balsom Alison Louise Balsom OBE (born in Hertfordshire, England on 7 October 1978) is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, music educator, curator and spokesperson for the importance of music education. Balsom was awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and three German Echo Awards, and was soloist at the BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2009. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Leicester and Anglia Ruskin University, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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Patrick Hession In 1996, Hession joined the Glenn Miller Orchestra, where he was lead trumpeter for almost three years. Hession was the lead trumpeter of Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band from 2000 until 2006. Hession recorded with Maynard Ferguson and Big Bop Nouveau on "The One and Only Maynard Ferguson" (2006), "MF Horn VI - Live at Ronnie's" (2006), and Diane Schuur & Maynard Ferguson "Swingin’ for Schuur" (2001). Hession has also played with the International Symphony Orchestra and recorded with Reggie Watkins and Kenneth Robinson.
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Nat Gonella Nathaniel Charles Gonella (7 March 1908 – 6 August 1998) was an English jazz trumpeter, bandleader, vocalist, and mellophonist born in London, notable for his work with the big band he founded, The Georgians, during the British dance band era.
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Manuel &quot;Guajiro&quot; Mirabal Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal (born 1933) is a Cuban trumpeter, best known for his work with the Buena Vista Social Club.
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Baker's Holiday Baker's Holiday is an album of songs associated with Billie Holiday by trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker which was recorded in 1965 and released on the Limelight label.
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David Frost (producer) David Frost is a record producer and pianist. He has won 15 Grammy Awards for his work, most recently in February 2017 for Producer of the Year, Classical. In 2014 he won three Grammy's for Producer of the Year, Classical, Best Engineered Album, Classical for Maria Schneider's "Winter Morning Walks" and for Best Classical Vocal Performance for Dawn Upshaw in "Winter Morning Walks". In 2012 his production of Steven Mackey's "Lonely Motel" with eighth blackbird and Rinde Eckert won a Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance. In 2011 he won four awards including Producer of the Year, Classical. He had won this category in 2005 and 2009 as well. In 2009 he also won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical, for "Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago", with Yo-Yo Ma, the Silk Road Ensemble and the Chicago Symphony. He has worked with numerous labels, including RCA Red Seal, Sony Classical, London/Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and EMI Classics. As a staff producer at BMG Classics (RCA Red Seal) for nearly a decade, he collaborated with many of their most important artists such as André Previn, Sir Colin Davis, Leonard Slatkin, Anne Akiko Meyers, The Tokyo String Quartet, János Starker, Luciano Berio and the pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Evgeny Kissin, Rudolf Firkusny and Van Cliburn. He has also been a guest faculty member of The Banff Centre. He is the son of Thomas Frost, who won the 1986 Grammy for Classical Producer of the Year.
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Buck Clarke William "Buck" Clarke (October 2, 1933 – October 11, 1988 in Los Angeles) is an American jazz percussionist who played with Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Les McCann, Russ Freeman, Gerald Albright, Jimmy Smith and others. He also played at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968.
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Carl Warwick (musician) William Carl "Bama" Warwick (born October 27, 1917, Birmingham, Alabama - died 2003, Philadelphia) was an American jazz trumpeter.
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Laurie Frink Laurie Ann Frink (August 8, 1951, Pender, Nebraska - July 13, 2013, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter who worked primarily in big band idioms.
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Lőrinc Barabás Lőrinc Barabás (born March 10, 1983, Budapest) is a Hungarian jazz trumpeter and composer.
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David Weiss (musician) David Weiss (born October 21, 1964 in New York City) is a jazz trumpeter and the founder of The New Jazz Composers Octet, a group dedicated to innovation in jazz.
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Guy Barker Guy Jeffrey Barker MBE (born 26 December 1957) is an English jazz trumpeter and composer. Barker was born in Chiswick, London, the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve, and within a year had joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. At the age of 15 he was playing with the Crouch End Allstars along with Wally Fawkes and Bob Nadkarni.After lessons from Clark Terry in 1975, Barker went on in the 1980s to play with John Dankworth, Gil Evans (with whose orchestra he toured and recorded in 1983), Lena Horne, and Bobby Watson.
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Alexander Bone Alexander Bone (born 8 September 1996) is a jazz saxophonist, pianist, music producer, and composer from England. In March 2014, he was crowned the inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician - Jazz Award, where he performed with the Gwilym Simcock Trio. The final was broadcast on BBC Four and BBC Radio 3 in May 2014. In September 2015, he performed on the Proms in the Park in Swansea, alongside the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He releases electronic music under the alias "Boney", recently remixing Kylie Minogue and Dannii Minogue.
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Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year – Group The Juno Award for "Jazz Album of the Year - Group" has been awarded since 2015, as recognition each year for the best jazz album of a group in Canada.
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When Sunny Gets Blue (album) When Sunny Gets Blue is an album by trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker which was recorded in 1986 and released on the Danish SteepleChase label.
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BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme (also known as the NGA scheme) was launched in 1999 by Adam Gatehouse as part of the BBC's commitment to young musical talent. Each autumn six or seven young artists at the beginning of careers on the national and international music scenes join the scheme for a two-year period. Since 2006 a jazz artist has also been invited every other year. The artists are given performance opportunities, including Radio 3 studio recordings, appearances and recordings with the BBC Orchestras and appearances at several music festivals, including the Cheltenham International Festival and the BBC Proms. They also regularly appear at the Edinburgh Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, East Neuk Festival, Gregynog Festival, Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music and the York Early Music Festival. Artists also appear at London's Wigmore Hall in the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert series, as well as at The Sage Gateshead and other UK concert venues UK.
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Lagos International Jazz Festival The Lagos International Jazz Festival (LIJF), also known as Lagos Jazz Fest, is an annual celebration of the music and culture that takes place in Lagos. Held since 2008, the Lagos International Jazz Festival is a three-day event. The 2016 festival was split between a two-day standard edition held at Freedom Park, Lagos, and a one-day luxury edition happening at The Bay Lounge Waterfront, Lekki, with both events commencing at 6pm. Musicians featured at the festival (either as guests or performers) include Aṣa, Courtney Pine, Freshly Ground, Beat Kaestli and Grammy award-winning artistes such as Lekan Babalola and Jermaine Jackson among others. The 2016 Jazz festival incorporated in its programme Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) and International Jazz Day.
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Thad Jones Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 – August 20, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists."
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2013 in British music This is a summary of the year 2013 in British music.
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Willie Thomas (trumpeter) Willie Thomas (born February 13, 1931) is an American jazz trumpeter, author and educator.
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The Festival Dancing in Your Head The Festival Dancing in Your Head is a festival dedicated to commissioning, producing, and presenting new music and music films from around the world. The festival is produced by Headwaters Music, a non-profit music organization, led by composer Anthony Gatto. The 2005 festival at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis celebrated the 75th birthday of Ornette Coleman with nearly 100 international musicians, including an evening with The Ornette Coleman Quartet. Past festival performers include the Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-stars, So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Iva Bittová, Ethel, Flux Quartet, The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Low, Gao Hong, Dean Granros and Antigravity, Tibetan Monks of the Gyuto Wheel of Dharma Monastery, Dosh, Patrick Crossland, Douglas Ewart, Anthony Cox. Composers performed include Steve Reich, David Lang, Michael Gordon, John Adams, Arvo Pärt, György Ligeti, Martin Bresnick, Brian Ferneyhough, Annie Gosfield, John King, Phil Kline, Evan Ziporyn, Béla Bartók.