Mark Nightingale Quintet

Mark Nightingale (trombone)

Andy Panayi (saxophone)

Graham Harvey (piano)

Jeremy Brown (bass)

Ian Thomas (drums).

Mark promises an evening of Swinging Jazz around the music of Cole Porter: “The very best of creative swinging jazz in the 21st Century, with love and respect for a 20th Century composing icon.” Cole Porter created melodies with seeming ease and many have become popular standards for good reason. Mark’s typically imaginative and accessible arrangements will fill your evening with great tunes, explored with agility, sensitivity and polish.

Multi award-winning jazz trombonist Mark Nightingale is now a firmly established favourite on the UK jazz scene, and has gained a reputation as one of the top-flight jazz trombonists in Europe and worldwide. Mark has had longstanding musical associations playing in bands lead by John Dankworth, Cleo Laine, Stan Tracey, Kenny Wheeler, Andy Panayi, Clark Tracey, and Alan Barnes over the years. He also fronts various small groups and a big band of his own, featuring his own compositions and arrangements.

Mark is also a busy studio musician in London and has played on hundreds of movie soundtracks, and has been fortunate to play and record with some of the greats in all genres of music. These include Ray Brown, Clark Terry, Scott Hamilton, James Morrison, Bill Holman, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Watts, Sting and Steely Dan.

He is best known to many young players for his growing catalogue of educational studies and short pieces published by ‘Warwick Music’, and used extensively by the ABRSM and Trinity/Guildhall in their music exam syllabi.