mark lockheart | saxophonist and composer

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If you would like to hear more audio clips of some of my compositions, you'll find them on the Recordings pages.

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Here's my latest news:

Ellington In Anticipation

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I've been looking at some of Duke Ellingtons wonderful music recently and after fiddling around with it and deconstructing it somewhat have come up with a series of pieces that I'm really excited about . The arrangements along with a couple of original tunes of mine will form the basis of a new CD that I'm hoping to record in February 2012, have some amazing musicians involved : Seb Rochford ( drums) Liam Noble ( piano) Tom Herbert (bass) Emma Smith ( violin) Finn Peters ( alto) and James Allsop ( clarinets).

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Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2010

Mark has won the 2010 Jazz Musician Of The Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Presented with the award at the Houses Of Parliament the award was made in recognition of Mark's exceptionally creative year with the release of the critically acclaimed In Deep CD on the Edition record label and Mark's first Big Band album Days Like These on the fuzzymoon record label.

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Downloads available from iTunes and Amazon

I'm pleased to announce that most of my recent releases (Days Like These, In Deep, Moving Air) and some of my back catalogue (Imaginary Dances) are now fully downloadable from itunes for 79p a track. Latest addition to itunes and amazon for download is my first album under my own name " Through Rose-Coloured Glasses" - More back catalogue to follow - so watch this space!

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Days Like These :: audio clips

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Here is a clip from a track called Strange Remark from my big band album with the NDR Big Band , Days Like These fuzzymoon records fuz003