Nick Smart

Nick Smart (* 1975 ) is a British jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player who has also emerged as a music teacher.

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Smart studied music at Salford University until 1997 , where he was awarded the Malcolm Arnold Prize for best trumpeter. In 1999 he moved to London where he completed postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music . He played in the London Jazz Orchestra , the Michael Garrick Big Band, the BBC Big Band and as a studio musician for Goldrush and Spiritualized . He also went on tour as a soloist with the James Taylor Quartet .

Smart released his debut album Remembering Nick Drake in 2005 , on which he interpreted his arrangement of the music by Nick Drake with John Parricelli , Paul Clarvis , Christine Tobin and Stan Sulzmann . In 2008 the trio album Remembering Louis Armstrong followed with the pianist Hans Koller and Paul Clarvis. In 2013 he and his band Trogon presented a record with Afro-Cuban music. He also conducted the Stan Sulzmann Neon Orchestra and the Troykestra . He worked with George Russell , Bob Brookmeyer , John Hollenbeck , the New York Voices , Mike Gibbs and Dave Douglas and was part of Kenny Wheeler's big band , with whom he also recorded. He can also be heard on recordings by the James Taylor Quartet , by Norma Winstone , Trish Clowes, Ion Opstad and Christine Tobin.

Smart taught at the Bedford SMMS Jazz Department and directed the Camden Schools Jazz Ensemble . He was on the faculty of the jazz program at Middlesex University ; he continued to teach at the Colchester Institute before becoming director of the jazz program at the Royal Academy of Music . In 2013 he was awarded the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Jazz Education .

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SURNAME	Smart, Nick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn)
DATE OF BIRTH	1975