Jacqui Hicks + Amersham Big Band featuring Special Guests - 3pm June 4th 2022
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Jacqui Hicks
Jacqui studied saxophone & flute on the jazz course at Leeds College of Music and started singing during her three years there, continuing on to the Masters course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Shortly after leaving the GSDM, Jacqui joined NYJO in 1992 as the featured vocalist and spent the next four years touring and also recording with the band — including the vocal album Looking Forward, Looking Back. Since 1993 Jacqui has worked with the jazz/funk band Shakatak, both as backing vocalist and sax player. She’s toured Europe and Eastern Europe, South Africa, the Far East & Japan numerous times with them and also appears on their albums Let The Piano Play, View From The City, Under Your Spell, Blue Savannah and Beautiful Day. Jacqui has also worked with the Latin/Pop band Matt Bianco, touring Japan, Indonesia & Europe with them and appears on their albums Gran Via, Another Time: Another Place and a re-working of their greatest hits, A Collection. Under her own name she released her debut album Spellbound back in 2000 – which was well received by the critics – and has released two acclaimed jazz CDs in collaboration with the John Critchinson Trio: With A Song In My Heart and A Child Is Born. |
Amersham Big Band
ABB is a relatively new ensemble that features local players from the area who meet at the Amersham Band headquarters (see https://amershamband.com). Jacqui has specially arranged charts that the band has been working on, and we are lucky to have additional soloists to augment the lineup (below).
Its Musical Director Ash Horton graduated as a trombonist from The Royal Northern College of Music in 1994.He has performed with many orchestras and bands, and played in many different styles and genres from classical to Jazz. Orchestras include The John Wilson Orchestra, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hallé Orchestra, The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, John Dankworth Big Band, Michel Legrand Big band, Syd Lawrence Orchestra and Clare Teal’s Mini Big Band. He has performed in many West End and touring shows including 42nd Street, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Chicago, Fosse, Singing in the Rain, Sinatra at the London Palladium, From Here to Eternity to name a few.
ABB is a relatively new ensemble that features local players from the area who meet at the Amersham Band headquarters (see https://amershamband.com). Jacqui has specially arranged charts that the band has been working on, and we are lucky to have additional soloists to augment the lineup (below).
Its Musical Director Ash Horton graduated as a trombonist from The Royal Northern College of Music in 1994.He has performed with many orchestras and bands, and played in many different styles and genres from classical to Jazz. Orchestras include The John Wilson Orchestra, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hallé Orchestra, The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, John Dankworth Big Band, Michel Legrand Big band, Syd Lawrence Orchestra and Clare Teal’s Mini Big Band. He has performed in many West End and touring shows including 42nd Street, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Chicago, Fosse, Singing in the Rain, Sinatra at the London Palladium, From Here to Eternity to name a few.
Martin Shaw studied classical trumpet and Jazz at the Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating after three years with a GRSM Hons degree and an LRAM. In 1989 Martin was invited to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, before returning to London to finish his studies at the Guildhall School of Music with a one-year postgraduate course in jazz and studio music.
Over the last 12 years, Martin has worked with many leading jazz artists including Cleo Laine, John Dankworth, Pete King, Dick Morrisey, Tim Garland and numerous big bands including the BBC Big Band, currently led by trombonist Jiggs Whigham. Along with session and TV work Martin still finds time to perform with classical ensembles and in West End shows. Martin has recorded, performed live and toured extensively with various pop artists including Sting, Jamiroquai, Natalie Cole, Paul Young and the Brand New Heavies.
Over the last 12 years, Martin has worked with many leading jazz artists including Cleo Laine, John Dankworth, Pete King, Dick Morrisey, Tim Garland and numerous big bands including the BBC Big Band, currently led by trombonist Jiggs Whigham. Along with session and TV work Martin still finds time to perform with classical ensembles and in West End shows. Martin has recorded, performed live and toured extensively with various pop artists including Sting, Jamiroquai, Natalie Cole, Paul Young and the Brand New Heavies.
Tim Garland is widely known as one of the UKs most successful musical exports working in jazz. Much of his output reflects interests beyond conventional jazz boundaries and he is increasingly acknowledged for large ensemble writing including many orchestral pieces, works for chamber ensembles, choirs, and of course many commissions from jazz ensembles of all kinds. He first made international waves playing saxophone, bass clarinet and flute with Chick Corea, an ongoing collaboration today. He also was featured with Bill Brufords Earthworks for over four years and has an ongoing commitment with two award winning ensembles: The Lighthouse Project, and Acoustic Triangle. He is composer-in-residence at Newcastle University.Garland is the 2006 “Musician Of The Year” in the UK’s parliamentary Jazz Society Vote. He also won a major BBC award for innovation, for his Lighthouse project and the highly acclaimed CD If The Sea Replied.
Garland has written for the LSO, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, Westminster Abbey Choir and many other ensembles that are drawn to his eclectic vision, he likes to refer to his wide- ranging output as a “Diverse Unity”.
Garland has written for the LSO, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, Westminster Abbey Choir and many other ensembles that are drawn to his eclectic vision, he likes to refer to his wide- ranging output as a “Diverse Unity”.
Colin Skinner
World renowned as a lead saxophonist, Colin writes and arranges for all the major Big Bands in the UK including the Glenn Miller and Syd Lawrence Orchestras, BBC Big Band, Echoes of Ellington, Back to Basie and his own award winning band the Skelton Skinner All Stars.
Writing for orchestras, opera companies and choirs across the UK, Colin’s classical compositions are performed by orchestras and ensembles throughout the UK including the London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers.
In demand by singers, chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the UK, Colin has arranged hundreds of songs and orchestral works. His catalogue of arrangements can be heard at the BBC Proms, on radio and TV and at concert halls around the country.
Writing arrangements and original works for London's West End, the John Wilson Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and all the major Big Bands in the UK, Colin is also known for being a co creator of the hit children's nursery rhymes album and apps for iphone, 'FunKey Rhymes'. This amusing collection of jazz, classical and Big Band arrangements of classic nursery rhymes were written by Colin to 'help fellow long suffering parents on long car journeys...'
World renowned as a lead saxophonist, Colin writes and arranges for all the major Big Bands in the UK including the Glenn Miller and Syd Lawrence Orchestras, BBC Big Band, Echoes of Ellington, Back to Basie and his own award winning band the Skelton Skinner All Stars.
Writing for orchestras, opera companies and choirs across the UK, Colin’s classical compositions are performed by orchestras and ensembles throughout the UK including the London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers.
In demand by singers, chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the UK, Colin has arranged hundreds of songs and orchestral works. His catalogue of arrangements can be heard at the BBC Proms, on radio and TV and at concert halls around the country.
Writing arrangements and original works for London's West End, the John Wilson Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and all the major Big Bands in the UK, Colin is also known for being a co creator of the hit children's nursery rhymes album and apps for iphone, 'FunKey Rhymes'. This amusing collection of jazz, classical and Big Band arrangements of classic nursery rhymes were written by Colin to 'help fellow long suffering parents on long car journeys...'
Clive Dunstall
Clive started his musical career playing trumpet and piano in the Royal Marines Band Service. During his eight and a half years in the Royal Marines he travelled extensively throughout the world, often on-board The Royal Yacht Britannia performing for Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal Family. Since leaving The Royal Marines Clive has performed, directed and been recorded in various musical genres including West End shows, Orchestras, Big Bands, Jazz Ensembles and various Commercial/Corporate events and more recently in 2010 has performed and recorded for Sting with The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on his Symphonicities Tour.
Clive started his musical career playing trumpet and piano in the Royal Marines Band Service. During his eight and a half years in the Royal Marines he travelled extensively throughout the world, often on-board The Royal Yacht Britannia performing for Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal Family. Since leaving The Royal Marines Clive has performed, directed and been recorded in various musical genres including West End shows, Orchestras, Big Bands, Jazz Ensembles and various Commercial/Corporate events and more recently in 2010 has performed and recorded for Sting with The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on his Symphonicities Tour.
Louise Clare Marshall Band - 7pm June 4th 2022
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Louise Clare Marshall
That smoky voice, surely the by-product of fiery passion, lilts between octaves, smouldering in the embers of truth’s tinderbox. That voice, flowing lava-like, sprung from Vulcan eruptions and shifting tectonic plates, the voice you’ve heard in songs as diverse as the house music hit Cerrone vs. Sweet Connection’s “Misunderstanding” to Jools Holland’s “I Went By”, regardless of genre, there is no debate: that voice burns.
That massive voice belongs to one Louise Clare Marshall, a musical ingénue since 15 months of age, when the songbird began her sweet crooning. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Louise was immersed in music from her youth, beginning piano lessons at five and music theory lessons at seven. Marshall also joined the Oldham Girl’s Choir at seven and continued as a member under the esteemed Eileen Bentley’s (MBE) tutelage until age sixteen. Louise conducted her Father’s choir, The Oldham International Choir from the early age of 13, and played the Church organ in Lancashire before winning attendance to the competitive Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester in 1989, where she studied piano with Alicja Fiderkiewicz and conducted the Chamber Choir.
Louise then began her accomplished session singing career prior to joining The National Youth Choir of Great Britain in 1990, where she wrote several Gospel arrangements, many of which remain in circulation worldwide.
In 1992, Louise won a scholarship to The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and studied Piano with Joan Havill whilst learning her trade singing with function bands and session work.
Louise has worked with Beverley Knight, Michael Ball, Marti Pellow, Chris Difford, Robbie Williams, Bryan Ferry, Ronnie Wood, Van Morrison, Eric Stewart, Madeline Bell, Sheila Ferguson, Sam Brown, Russell Watson, Steve Winwood, Paul Young, Don Blackman, Solomon Burke, Karl Jenkins and John Rutter, to name but a few.
Whether performing on tour with BBC’s Jools Holland or Roxy Music, playing piano or performing with function bands singing Aretha Franklin’s The Great American Songbook, Louise’s sonic skills span across genres: Jazz, Pop, R&B, Electronic, Classical or Gospel music. And all the while, her voice resonates, crackles, pops and burns as a phoenix rises from the flame.
That smoky voice, surely the by-product of fiery passion, lilts between octaves, smouldering in the embers of truth’s tinderbox. That voice, flowing lava-like, sprung from Vulcan eruptions and shifting tectonic plates, the voice you’ve heard in songs as diverse as the house music hit Cerrone vs. Sweet Connection’s “Misunderstanding” to Jools Holland’s “I Went By”, regardless of genre, there is no debate: that voice burns.
That massive voice belongs to one Louise Clare Marshall, a musical ingénue since 15 months of age, when the songbird began her sweet crooning. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Louise was immersed in music from her youth, beginning piano lessons at five and music theory lessons at seven. Marshall also joined the Oldham Girl’s Choir at seven and continued as a member under the esteemed Eileen Bentley’s (MBE) tutelage until age sixteen. Louise conducted her Father’s choir, The Oldham International Choir from the early age of 13, and played the Church organ in Lancashire before winning attendance to the competitive Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester in 1989, where she studied piano with Alicja Fiderkiewicz and conducted the Chamber Choir.
Louise then began her accomplished session singing career prior to joining The National Youth Choir of Great Britain in 1990, where she wrote several Gospel arrangements, many of which remain in circulation worldwide.
In 1992, Louise won a scholarship to The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and studied Piano with Joan Havill whilst learning her trade singing with function bands and session work.
Louise has worked with Beverley Knight, Michael Ball, Marti Pellow, Chris Difford, Robbie Williams, Bryan Ferry, Ronnie Wood, Van Morrison, Eric Stewart, Madeline Bell, Sheila Ferguson, Sam Brown, Russell Watson, Steve Winwood, Paul Young, Don Blackman, Solomon Burke, Karl Jenkins and John Rutter, to name but a few.
Whether performing on tour with BBC’s Jools Holland or Roxy Music, playing piano or performing with function bands singing Aretha Franklin’s The Great American Songbook, Louise’s sonic skills span across genres: Jazz, Pop, R&B, Electronic, Classical or Gospel music. And all the while, her voice resonates, crackles, pops and burns as a phoenix rises from the flame.
