Raphael Clarkson

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Raphael "Raph" Clarkson (* 1987 in London ) is a British jazz musician ( trombone , composition , also vocals ).

Live and act

Clarkson has a (continental) European family history; his grandmother, the actress Sabine Michael, was a German-Jewish emigrant, and his late mother Micaela Comberti , a violinist in the field of early music. His father Gustav Clarkson († 2020) played the viola in a well-known string quartet. At the beginning of his career, Raphael Clarson played in various musical fields, from traditional jazz to salsa, ska , contemporary classical music and new improvisational music. He studied music at York University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 2008; his mentor was John Taylor .

Clarkson worked in the British jazz scene a. a. from the beginning of the 2010s in the formation Worldservice Project (with Tim Ower, Dave Morecroft, Conor Chaplin, Neil Blandford), with which the first recordings were made ( Relentless ). In the following years he played with Laura Jurds Chaos Orchestra ( Island Mentality ). In the field of jazz, he was involved in five recording sessions between 2010 and 2018. With his ensemble The Dissolute Society , founded in 2017, he presented the album Soldiering On , on which his father Gustav, Huw Warren and Laura Jurd had collaborated; His second album Resolute followed in 2019 with keyboardist Phil Merriman and drummer Simon Roth, which dealt with the poetry of Gboyega Odubanjo.

Discographic notes

  • Worldservice Project: Fire in a Pet Shop (MegaSound, 2013)
  • Worldservice Project: For King & Country (RareNoise, 2015)
  • Worldservice Project: Serve (RareNoise, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information at Naxos Audio Books
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 27, 2019)
  3. ↑ FEATURE: Raph Clarkson (new album, Resolute, now available). London Jazz News, April 27, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Clarkson, Raphael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clarkson, Raph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (trombone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH London