James Davison with special guest Mark Nightingale
Winner of the Smith-Watkins Trumpet Award (2016) at the Royal Academy of Music and the prestigious 'Young Musician of the Year' Award-presented by the Worshipful Company of Musicians-in 2018, James Davison includes work with the likes of the BBC Big Band, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra and Pete Long’s ‘Jazz at the Philharmonic’ band. Formerly lead trumpet with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), he has since performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and as guest Principal with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the award-winning Misha Mullov-Abbado Patchwork Orchestra. James' own group “Quintet-a-Tete”, co-led with Callum Au and featuring the music of Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer, performs regularly at the 606 to great acclaim. For this show, James has asked one of the UK's most highly regarded, award-winning trombonists, Mark Nightingale, to be his special guest. Also renowned as a composer and arranger, Mark has worked with a who's who of jazz greats through the years, including James Morrison, John Dankworth, Stan Tracey and Alan Barnes (and it's Mark's playing you heard on Sting's best-selling album, 'Ten Summoner's Tales'). A terrific, swinging jazz gig from two masters of the genre.
"Davison…in particularly fine form with an emotive trumpet solo effervescent… thrilling" The JazzMann; "[James Davison]... his energetic and fluent soloing was highly persuasive, and he also has a great line in witty repartee" London Jazz; "Mark Nightingale never puts a foot wrong, producing a string of solos which are constantly inventive while keeping your foot tapping". Crescendo & Jazz Magazine