Malcolm Strachan

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Malcolm Strachan (* around 1970) is a British jazz and studio musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , also singing , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Malcolm Strachan, who is from Inverness , started playing the trumpet when he was seven and had regular jam sessions with his father at the piano. At a young age he played jazz gigs with his father's band, as well as first trumpet in the Highland Region Youth Orchestra and attended jazz summer schools in Scotland. From 1993 he studied at Leeds College of Music and played in the local music scene in various bands. After dropping out of college in 1996, he founded The Haggis Horns with Scottish musicians Jason Rae and Atholl Ransome , with whom he had engagements in various clubs in Leeds. The trio then formed the horn section of the funk band The New Mastersounds , to be heard on their debut album Keb Darge Presents the New Mastersounds (2001).

Strachan continued to perform with The Haggis Horns , which became a septet, and recorded their fourth album, One of These Days , in 2017 . He also worked as a busy session musician in Great Britain, a. a. with Mark Ronson , Amy Winehouse , Corinne Bailey Rae ( Put Your Records On , 2006), Jamiroquai ( Rock Dust Light Star ), Martha Reeves & the Vandellas , Jesse Glynne , the Craig Charles Fantasy Funk Band , Black Honey , the Cinematic Orchestra and the band Blue . Recordings were also made with The 3 2 65s and the Eddie Roberts Quintet. In 2020 he released his debut album About Time on Haggis Records, a collection of original compositions rooted in the classic acoustic modern jazz style.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview in JamiroTalk
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 8, 2020)
  3. ↑ The Haggis Horns: Haggis Jam
personal data
SURNAME Strachan, Malcolm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz and studio musician (trumpet)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1970