Mark Hanslip

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Mark Hanslip (born October 22, 1979 ) is a British jazz and improvisation musician ( tenor saxophone ).

Live and act

Hanslip began his musical career in the jazz and burgeoning improvisation scene in Birmingham , a. a. with pianist Steve Tromans and alto saxophonist Chris Bowden . Early on he worked in the large-format ensemble of pianist Hans Koller ( New Memories , 2002; London Ear 2005). He eventually moved to London, playing with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra ( Someting Old Something New , 2004), Michael Garrick ( Yet Another Spring , 2006) and Paul Dunmall ( Weeping Idols , 2012, with Philip Gibbs , Ed Ricard ). In 2010 Hanslip recorded his debut album Dosados (Babel) in a duo with the drummer Javier Carmona ; In 2017 he presented the duo production And How the Who Can Think the What ... ( FMR Records , with Ed Gauden).

In the improvisation scene, Hanslip worked with Neil Metcalfe , Veryan Weston , Javier Carmona, in the TOM-MIX trio (with Tony Marsh , Olie Brice ) and in the Midlands with Bruce Coates , Paul Dunmall and Mike Hurley . He also worked with Keith Tippett , in the formations Crux Trio, Examples of Twelves, Jonathan Bratoëff Quartet, Olie Brice Quintet, Nostalgia 77, The Skeleton, The Voices 0f Time, Tony Bianco's Utoma Quartet, Twelves Trio and UN schooLED . He currently (2018) plays in the HTrio with Otto Willberg (bass) and Andrew Cheetham (drums). His current (2018) projects include a duo with Javier Carmona and a trio (Hanslip / Hurley / Sanders ). He teaches jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) and King's College London .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 17, 2018)
  2. Event information at Cafe Oto