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Sam Chaplin studied
music at Manchester University and took the jazz course
at the Royal Northern College of Music.
He got a taste
for crooning while fronting the University Jazz Orchestra
as a vocalist and trumpet soloist. Before coming to
London he was playing at venues in Manchester such
as the Bridgewater Hall, Band on the Wall, RNCM and
many other jazz haunts. Sam worked for 4 years with
a Christian organisation, specialising in supporting
students at music college in London whilst continuing
to write and arrange music and perform as a singer
and trumpeter at functions round the London area.
Since
graduating from the Royal Academy of Music 4 year
jazz course Tom has performed, recorded and toured
in the UK and
internationally with an eclectic array of artists,
including: Robin Eubanks, Gerard Presencer, Michael
Cain, Famadou
Don Moye, Marty Ehrlich, Robert Mitchell, Hot Club
of King's Cross, Fenster and Tetragon amongst others.
He
has also been fortunate enough to play with and learn
from such greats as Art Famer, Peter Erskine, Kenny
Werner, Gary Husband, Evan Parker, Dave Liebman and
John Taylor.
George has played with:
Iain Ballamy, Django Bates, Stan Sulzman, Gareth
Williams and Laurence Cottle. He has played at the
606 Club,
Ronnie Scotts, The Purcell Room, The Royal Festival
Hall as well as numerous T.V. and Radio Jingles.
In April 2003 George played a week's residency at Ronnie
Scotts with Geoff Gascoine.
Since leaving the Royal Academy
of Music in July Rob Taggart has
toured with: The Jazz Crusaders, the Chris Norman Band
(Ex- lead singer of the band Smokie) and the Gerard
Presencer
Quartet with whom he also did a week residency at Ronnie
Scotts in September. As Musical Director of the Holly
Penfield Band he did a two week residency at Pizza
on
The Park as well as doing regular gigs at a number
of venues in Soho including Café de Paris.
Here are some of the people that Simon Allen has played
saxophone with! Kenny Wheeler, Bobby Shew, Peter King,
Julian Arguelles, Stan Sulzmann, Iain Ballamy,Nikki
Illes, Django Bates, John Paracelli, Laurance Cottle,
Andy Cleyndert, Martin France, Ian Thomas, Mike Bradley.
He has played in 5tets with Wynton Marsalis, Gerard
Persencer, Chris Batchelor, Steve Waterman, Bruce Adams,
Alan Barnes, Art Themen, Don Weller, Ben Castle, Julian
Joseph, Gareth Williams, John Critchinson, Stan Tracey,
Jim Mullen, Jeremy Brown, Dave Green, Andy Cleyndert,
Clark Tracey, Bernard Purdie, Ian Thomas, Mike Bradley,
Tina May.
Chris is studying on the Royal Academy of Music
jazz course.
He plays in NYJO and
the Royal
Academy
of Music
Big Band. He has worked with many artists such as
Alan Barnes, Don Weller, Tina May, Tony Lujan,
Pete King,
Lee Gibson, Bobby Shew, Julian Arguelles, Hugh Fraser,
Mark Lockheart, Django Bates, Phil Robson, Tim Garland
and his Underground Orchestra, Alex Wilson. He also
loves playing more free jazz and has rexcorded with
Jon Lloyd, Stan Adler, John Law and Paul Clarvis.
Tom is
studying on the Royal Academy of Music Jazz Course
and is planning further study in
New York at the Eastman School of Music with Joe Lovano.
He plays lead alto sax in NYJO and the Royal Academy
of Music Big Band. He is a regular performer with the
London Jazz Orchestra and Ian Pierce Big Band and has
done quintet playing with artists such as Jim Mullen,
Duncan Lamont and Steve Waterman
Pablo is studying at Trinity College of Music and plays
in NYJO, he played lead trumpet at Party at the palace,
lead trumpet in salsa band Expresion Cubana, lead trumpet
in Trinity big band and the Royal Academy Big Band,
the UK Glen Miller Band, various orchestral work and
of course with the lovely Shakira on the Pepsi Chart
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