Mark Sanders

Mark Sanders with the Foils Quartet at Club W71 , 2016

Mark Sanders (born August 31, 1960 in Beckenham , South London) is a British drummer of modern creative and free improvisation music .

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Sander first played with rock groups in the early 1980s before his friend Paul Rogers introduced him to jazz . His main influence is Will Evans. In the late 1980s he played improvisation music in duos with Pat Thomas and Phil Durrant , but also performed with musicians such as Dudu Pukwana , Dick Heckstall-Smith and Peter Nu. With the group Spirit Level he also played at European festivals in the late 1980s. In the 1990s he became a member of the groups of both Evan Parker , with whom he toured Europe and North America, and Elton Dean (first in a quartet with Harry Beckett and Marcio Mattos , later with Paul Rogers and Howard Riley ). He was also used for numerous recordings of the French NATO label, for example with Mahmoud Ghania . In the late 1990s, he joined Jah Wobble's band projects , where he recorded and played concerts with Harold Budd , Jaki Liebezeit , Bill Laswell , Graham Haynes , but also Gigi and other world musicians. He performed with Derek Bailey , Ivo Perelman , Agustí Fernández , Paul Rutherford , Veryan Weston , Mark Hanslip and numerous other improvisation musicians before touring Scandinavia with Peter Brötzmann and Frode Gjerstad .

He has been touring Europe several times as SPEEQ with Hasse Poulsen , Luc Ex and Phil Minton and Sidsel Endresen . He has recorded with Evan Parker, Elton Dean, Larry Stabbins , Thomas Borgmann , the London Improvisers Orchestra , Jon Lloyd, Lotte Anker , Kris Wanders , Ken Vandermark, as well as Frode Gjerstad and John Edwards .

Sanders has taught at various times at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music .

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SURNAME	Sanders, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	London Borough of Bromley , London