Guy Barker

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Guy Barker (* 26. December 1957 in Chiswick , London ) is a British jazz - trumpet player and composer .

Live and act

Barker began playing the trumpet at the age of twelve and played in the British National Youth Jazz Orchestra just a year later . After taking lessons from Clark Terry in 1975, Barker worked in the 1980s with John Dankworth , Gil Evans (whose orchestra he toured and recorded with in 1983), Lena Horne and Bobby Watson .

From 1984 to 1992 Barker was a member of the Clark Tracey Quintet and also played with Tracey's father Stan and was a member of the John Surman's Brass Project . As a busy sideman, he took part in numerous recordings in the 1990s, for example in the Dedication Orchestra , Ornette Coleman , Carla Bley , Georgie Fame , James Carter , Mike Westbrook , Frank Sinatra , Tommy Smith , Colin Towns , as well as the bands ABC , The The , Erasure , Chris Botti , Wham! , Alphaville , The Moody Blues and Jazz Jamaica Allstars , as well as Sting , Chris Hunter , Mike Oldfield , Cleo Laine , Acoustic Alchemy and XTC .

Barker has directed his own ensembles since the early 1990s, in which he has worked with Denys Baptiste , Perico Sambeat , Bernardo Sassetti , Frank Ricotti , Chris Laurence , Geoff Gascoyne and Gene Calderazzo and for which he wrote his own compositions. In 1991 the album Isn't It? Was created for the Spotlite label . ; since then he has recorded for Verve Records, among others .

With the '2015 New Years Honors' he received the order 'Member of the Order of the British Empire' (MBE) for services to jazz music. He had already received the 'BASCA / PRS for Music Gold Badge' in 2013. In 2014 he was also the second year Associate Composer of the BBC Concert Orchestra . He is also Honorary Vice-President of the National Young Jazz Orchestra (NYJO).

Discography

  • 1991: Isn't It?
  • 1994: Into the Blue (Verve)
  • 1998: What Love Is (Emarcy)
  • 1999: The Talented Mr Ripley - Soundtrack
  • 2000: Timeswing
  • 2001: Soundtrack (Provocateur)
  • 2007: The Amadeus Project

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alyn Shipton: Biography of Jazz Jamaica All Stars . In: The Times . Retrieved January 11, 2008.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette December 31, 2014 Supplement: 61092 Page: N16
  3. ↑ Guy Barker to be awarded BASCA / PRS Gold Badge , London Jazz News, September 25, 2013, accessed January 8, 2015
  4. ↑ Guy Barker MBE , London Jazz News, December 30, 2014, accessed January 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Barker, guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiswick , London