OREN MARSHALL - tuba
During the 80's Oren played regularly with
Loose Tubes, London Brass, the Jazz Warriors, Microgroove and Mervyn Africa.
Part of Chris Batchelor and Steve Buckley's quintet 'Big Air' along with
drummer Jim Black and pianist Myra Melford. Twice nominated for a BBC innovation
in Jazz award (2002, 2003), Oren first performed with Billy Jenkins in
an improvising trio led by drummer Steve Noble in 1990, and was part of
a Jenkins written and directed 13 piece Austro/London project in Vienna
'95.
"The Jimi Hendrix of the tuba." (John Fordham)
GAIL BRAND - trombone
Active on international improvised music
scene for 10 years. Current projects include a free quartet 'Lunge ' with
Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas & Phil Durrant (2 critically successful CDs);
with US vocal improviser Morgan Guberman. Appears solo and performs with
many international improvisers. As well as trombonist, Gail is a qualified
Music Therapist. Gail was first directed by Billy Jenkins with the Middlesex
University Jazz Course Big Band in 1996 and toured and broadcast on BBC
R3 with the guitarist's 'Suburbia' ensemble in 2002.
NATHANIEL FACEY - alto saxophone
Born in London in 1983 to Jamaican parents,
Nathaniel began his music studies at 14. Regular member of Tomorrow's Warriors
and has worked with the likes of Afrobeat star, Dele Sosemi, gospel artist
Ron Kenoli, and award-winning Jazz Jamaica All Stars. Nathaniel worked
under Billy whilst studying at the Royal Academy of Music in 2005 and performed
professionally with him in London that year. He also co-leads (with pianist
Arthur Lea) a quartet playing the music of Billy Jenkins who headlined
a day of Jenkins' music at The Vortex as part of the '05 London Jazz Festival.
DYLAN BATES - violin
Born in Lewisham in 1973, Dylan took up
the violin at an early age, followed by the piano, and tap dancing. His
association with Billy Jenkins dates back to the '80s, when he would listen
to 'Sounds Like Bromley' on his walkman while strolling through that borough.
In '97 he auditioned for Billy Jenkins' Blues Collective and has been a
member ever since. In '98 he assembled a new band called Waiting On Dwarfs,
playing his own compositions, and more recently he has formed a Morse code
trio, Dot Dash Duck, and an improv quartet, Shelf Unit.
"Bates is one of the most exciting figures
on the jazz scene." Tom Barlow, Jazzwise.
CHARLES HAYWARD - drumkit
Charles Hayward was the leader of the experimental
rock group This Heat and a member of Mal Dean's Amazing Band, Radar Favourites,
Dolphin Logic, and gigged with Phil Manzanera, appearing with Manzanera's
Quiet Sun project and Gong. Hayward did sessions for Lora Logic, the Raincoats
and Everything But the Girl before forming Camberwell Now with bassist
Trefor Goronwy and tape manipulator Stephen Rickard. Signed to Sub Rosa,
he debuted with My Secret Alphabet in 1993. In 1998, he joined Massacre
with Fred Frith and Bill Laswell.
