Orlando le Fleming

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Orlando le Fleming (actually Antony Orlando Frank Le Fleming , born July 7, 1976 in Birmingham ) is a British cricketer and jazz musician ( double bass , composition ).

Live and act

Le Fleming began a career as a batsman in English cricket in the 1990s . So he played from 1992 to 1996 for Devon in the Minor Counties Championship. In 1994 and 1996 he played a List A cricket game in the NatWest Trophy .

He then studied at the London Royal Academy of Music ; As part of the training, the first recordings were made in 1996 with Gareth Lockrane , David Beebee and Hugh Fraser . From the late 1990s he worked in the British jazz scene a. a. with Jason Rebello / Mark Turner , Dave O'Higgins , Roger Beaujolais , Guy Barker , Billy Cobham and Jane Monheit . In 2000 he presented the album It's a Jazz Life (Raymer Sound) with pianist Craig Milverton and drummer Steve Brown .

In the 2000s, le Fleming also worked with Chris Higginbottom / Seamus Blake ( One , 2005), Ari Hoenig ( Bert's Playground 2007), Iain Ballamys Anorak and with Lage Lund and Will Vinson in the OWL Trio , in the following decade with Mark Lockett , Joey Calderazzo , Ben Sidran , Jeff Tain Watts , in Germany with Tobias Meinhart and Jochen Rückert . In 2017 he and his band Romantic Funk released an album of the same name under his own name . In the field of jazz he was listed in 45 recording sessions between 1996 and 2016. He is currently (2019) a member of the David Berkman Quartet.

Discography

  • From Brooklyn with Love - Live at Freddy's (Nineteen Eight, 2009), with Will Venson, Lage Lund, Antonio Sánchez
  • Romantic Funk: The Unfamiliar (2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antony Le Fleming at Cricinfo
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 8, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Le Fleming, Orlando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LeFleming, Orlando; Le Fleming, Anthony Orlando Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cricketer and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 7th July 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham