Mick Collins (musician)

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Mick Collins ( 1938 - April 9, 2015 ) was a British jazz trumpeter and band leader .

Collins played in the 1960s and 1970s with Mike Westbrook , the Brotherhood of Breath , Centipede ( September Energy 1971) and with the Midnite Follies . In the 1970s he also worked in London with his own band projects, including a. with Stan Sulzmann , Alan Barnes , Guy Barker , Mark Nightingale , Nick Weldon , Chris Laurence and Bryan Spring . With his 16-piece big band , the Mick Collins Modern Jazz Orchestra , he has performed regularly at the HG Wells Center in Bromley for over forty years . The trumpeter should not be confused with the Canadian jazz cornetist of the same name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in London Jazz News
  2. ↑ Mick Collins at Discogs (English)
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 22, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Collins, Mick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz trumpeter and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2015