Gail Brand

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Sarah Gail Brand (* 1971 in London ) is a British trombonist of jazz and European improvisation music .

Live and act

Gail Brand grew up in Birmingham and began playing the trombone when he was nine. During her school years she played in the Birmingham School Symphony Orchestra, Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra, Children's Opera Company, Birmingham Schools Brass Ensemble and in pop and jazz bands before she worked on trombone (with Chris Batchelor and Stuart Hall ) and composition (with Veryan Weston ) at Middlesex University ; In 2001 she received her postgraduate diploma in music therapy from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama .

Since then she has been working as a musician in the fields of jazz, improvised and classical music, etc. a. with Steve Beresford , Billy Jenkins , Elton Dean , Evan Parker , Phil Minton , Lol Coxhill , Oren Marshall , Maggie Nicols and Georg Graewe , as well as with the comedian Stewart Lee , in whose BBC series Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle she appeared. She also played in the London Improvisers Orchestra , in the quartet Mingus Moves (with Chris Biscoe , Henry Lowther and Veryan Weston), she had a duo with improvisation vocalist Morgan Guberman as well as with the drummer Mark Sanders and with her Gail Brand Sextet . She recorded several albums under her own name. The Wire calls them "the most exciting trombone player for years."

Brand worked for several years as a music therapist at The Ark facility in Bracknell, Berkshire, where she held experimental music workshops for young people with learning disabilities; She has also taught improvisation and composition classes at the Guildhall School, summer courses and the London Musicians' Collective.

In 2014 she was active in the Lunge quartet with drummers Mark Sanders , Phil Durrant (electronics, violin) and Pat Thomas (electronics, keyboards), the quintet by Simon H. Fell , the formation Minnow by Kelsey Michael and with The Brand / Morris Alliance , an improvisation duo with keyboardist Darren Morris .

Discographic notes

  • Lung: Strong Language (Emanem, 2002), with Phil Durrant, Pat Thomas, and Mark Sanders
  • Supermodel Supermodel (Emanem, 2006), with Gino Robair , Tim Perkis , John Shiurba , Matthew Sperry
  • Gail Brand / Mark Sanders: Instinct & the Body (TBC, 2009)
  • Sarah Gail Brand, Tony Marsh, Percy Pursglove , Simon H. Fell: Harmonic 2011 (Bruce's Fingers, 2018)
  • Sarah Gail Brand, Steve Beresford, John Edwards , Mark Sanders: All Will Be Said, All to Do Again (Regardless, 2019)
  • Deep Trouble (2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.arts-emergency.org/alumni/gail-brand/
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Gail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brand, Sarah Gail (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH London