Nat Birchall
Nat Birchall (born November 29, 1957 ) is a British jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , composition ).
Live and act
Birchall grew up in Lancashire and began playing the saxophone in 1979, influenced by the reggae music of the wind players Cedric Brooks , Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso ; he took several lessons from a local musician, but otherwise remained self-taught . From the mid-1980s he appeared in local bands that played jazz-funk , jazz rock or Turkish fusion music. In 1992 he formed the Corner Crew , who played a jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
Under the influence of the music of Coltrane and Sonny Rollins as well as Billy Harper and George Adams , he turned to jazz studies in 1994 and earned the HND ( Higher National Diploma ) in jazz studies. He has worked with Okay Temiz , Arun Ghosh's indo-jazz ensemble, Jon Thorne's Oedipus Mingus project and in Gary Boyle's quartet . In 1998 he co-founded the formation Sixth Sense , which released an album in 1999. Since 2007 he has played in the group of trumpeter Matthew Halsall . In 2009 he recorded his debut album Akhenaten for his label Gondwana , which was followed by the second album Guiding Sprits in 2010 , both in the spiritual Coltrane / Sanders tradition. Corey Mwamba and Paul Hession were involved in other albums such as Sacred Dimension (2011) or World Without Form (2012) . The album Creation followed in 2016, and Cosmic Language in 2018 with Adam Fairhall, Michael Bardon and drummers Andy Hay and Johnny Hunter. Birchall lives and works in North West England.
Discographic notes
- Live in Larissa - Double Album (2019)
- Tradition Disc in Dub (2020)
- Upright Living (2020)
Web links
- Web presence
- Alone in the Music - Portrait of Nat Birchall by Chris May (with interview) at All About Jazz
- Discographic entry at Allmusic
- Nat Birchall at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Birchall, Nat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1957 |