Chris Batchelor

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Christopher "Chris" Batchelor (born April 9, 1962 ) is a British trumpeter and composer of modern jazz .

Live and act

Batchelor played in Dudu Pukwana's Zila at the age of 17 . From 1984 he was a founding member of Loose Tubes , for which he also composed. He was also touring with the 3 Mustaphas 3 , with Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath , with Ashley Slaters Microgroove and with Billy Jenkins ( Scratches of Spain , 1987).

Together with Steve Buckley he led the Orchestra Rafiki and a quartet as well as the international quintet Big Air , which includes Myra Melford , Oren Marshall and Jim Black . He has also appeared with Michael Brecker , Sam Rivers , Hermeto Pascoal , John Taylor and the Jazz Passengers with Deborah Harry . He can also be heard on albums by Harry Beckett , Django Bates and Peter Danstrup.

Prizes and awards

For the compositions that Buckley and Batchelor wrote for Big Air's first concert , they received the BBC Jazz Award for best new work in 2001. Brian Morton celebrated their album Big Air in the Jazz Journal as "the best British jazz recording in the last 20 years" . In 2009 Batchelor received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers .

Discographic notes

  • Whole & The Half - with Steve Buckley (1994)
  • Life As We Know it with Steve Buckley (1999)
  • Big Air (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/director/11049846 and http://today.davesfunstuff.com/2323musicbirthchron.htm?bodypage=2196200&sxectionnumber=s2323
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, May 20, 2014)
  3. ^ Paul Hamlyn Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Batchelor, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Batchelor, Christopher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British trumpeter and composer of modern jazz
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1962