THE QUINTET ------
TONY HARPER : BARITONE SAX : BRIAN ARCHER: TROMBONE: BOB HUDSON: PIANO: GEOFF PEARSON : BASS : MICK SAUNDERS : DRUMS.
---------BARI-BONE :TONY HARPER : BARI : BRIAN ARCHER : LEE HALLAM : BOB WILSON : (TROMS) BOB HUDSON:PIANO--GEOFF PEARSON: BASS----MICK SAUNDERS: DRUMS:
Influences
CHARLIE PARKER:LESTER YOUNG :COLEMAN HAWKINS:HARRY CARNEY :SONNY ROLLINS:PEPPER ADAMS: GERRY MULLIGAN: HANK MOBLEY:SAHIB SHIHAB:JOE TEMPERLEY: RONNIE ROSS : MILES DAVIS:DEXTER GORDON: ZOOT & AL: STAN GETZ : BOBBY WELLINS : THAD JONES: BILL HOLMAN: BOB BROOKMEYER.
THE YOUNGER GUYS WHO IMPRESS ME : BRIAN ARCHER:
GARY SMULYAN : RALPH LALAMMA: JOE LOVANO :WYNTON MARSALIS : BRANFORD MARSALIS : MIKE LEDONNE: ERIC ALEXANDER : MIKE DiRUBBO : JON GORDON: JIM ROTONDI : JOE MAGNARELLI: JOSHUA REDMAN :GRANT STEWART : FRANK BASILE: ANDREW COLEMAN : ALISTAIR WHITE : SIMON ALLEN: OSIAN ROBERTS/STEVE FISHWICK QUINTET
TONY.S LOVE OF JAZZ BEGAN AT 13, IN 1957, AT 17 HE JOINED THE MERCHANT NAVY AND SPENT 8 YEARS GOING TO NEW YORK & MONTREAL WHERE HE HEARD ALL THE GREAT PLAYERS IN THE BEST ENVIRONMENT, ----A NEW YORK JAZZ CLUB---------- ON LEAVING THE MERCHANT NAVY, HE WORKED IN AN AIRCRAFT FACTORY, DOING SEMI-PRO GIGS, FIRST ON TENOR, BUT SOON CHANGING TO BARITONE ON WHICH HE HAS CONCENTRATED ON EVER SINCE. AT THIS TIME HE MET, AND PLAYED WITH TONY FAULKNER, A GREAT FRIEND, AND EARLY INFLUENCE IN JAZZ & BIG BANDS, STILL PLAYING IN ---THE TONY FAULKNER JAZZ ORCHESTRA (CHECK OUT HIS SITE ON MYSPACE).
THE NEXT THIRTY OR SO YEARS WERE SPENT FIRST, IN HOLIDAY CAMPS AND MECCA BALLROOMS, THEN FROM 1973, FREE-LANCING, DOING SUMMER SEASONS, PANTOMIMES AND THE VARIETY CLUBS IN BACKING ORCHESTRAS, HIGHLIGHTS WERE WORKING WITH BILLY ECKSTINE. AND LATER BUDDY GRECO, AT RONNIE SCOTTS CLUB.
JAZZ WAS INFREQUENT GIGS OR MAINLEY SITTING IN AFTER THE SHOWS. IN 1995, HE WENT BACK TO COLLEGE, FIRST, ---------CITY COLLEGE, MANCHESTER,-------- THEN .--LEEDS SCHOOL OF MUSIC------- MEETING & PLAYING WITH SOME FINE UP AND COMING JAZZ PLAYERS INCLUDING A GREAT TRUMPET/FLUGAL PLAYER, ANDREW COLEMAN, WHO THAT YEAR WON YOUNG JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR 1999 ( CHECK HIM OUT ALSO ) GRADUATING WITH A B.A.(HONS) DEGREE.
FEB 2000, SAW HIM MOVE TO MANSFIELD IN THE EAST MIDLANDS WHERE HE TEACHES WOODWIND ( HE DOUBLES ALTO SAX/FLUTE/CLARINET AND BASS CLARINET) THE TIME SINCE HAS BEEN VERY ENJOYABLE, PLAYING MAINLY WITH HIS QUINTET PARTNERED BY BRIAN ARCHER ON TROMBONE. HE ALSO HAS A SEPTET--- BARI-BONE---WITH A FRONT LINE OF BARITONE SAX AND THREE TROMBONES. HE PLAYS WITH PETE WILDE QUINTET (INCLUDING PONTYPOOL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2004) & THE NOTTINGHAM JAZZ ORCHESTA. IN JUNE 2006, HE HAD GREAT ENJOYMENT RECORDING WITH ----- THE TONY FAULKNER JAZZ ORCHESTRA ---- AND IS LOOKING FORWARDS TO LETTING THE REST OF U.K. OR INDEED THE WORLD, HEAR THE GREAT MUSIC OF TONY. HE ENJOYS VISITING N.Y.C. EACH SUMMER, MEETING WITH SOME GREAT JAZZ PLAYERS AND LISTENING TO GREAT MUSIC,
BIRD LIVES!!!
THE SWEET MAGIC OF YOUR TROMBONE SLIDING INTO THAT YESTERDAY PART OF MY BRAIN RESERVED FOR "NANCY" AND THAT POINT IN TIME WHEN NANCY MEANT SINATRA AND AND AND
Thanks for adding me to your friends, Mr. Harper! I love playing my tenor, but I'm living for the day that I can get my hands on a big beautiful BARI! Best regards, pard! Mike, the sax cowboy.
Thanks for the request. Your quintet sure is keeping jazz alive - keep swinging.
And, Bop City is doing its part to keep classic jazz alive. Thanks for the support!
Bop City - Vintage Jazz Internet Radio
Imagine that you are back in the era when jazz was expanding beyond its perceived boundaries - when jazz was an american phenomenon. Imagine that there is a radio station spinning records on the cutting edge of jazz, giving a nod to the origins of jazz and even sneaking in some blues now and then. Bop City is that radio station.
Playing cuts from vintage vinyl LPs, Bop City harkens back to the golden age of jazz. Complete with a few pops and clicks, this is pure jazz radio as it was, and, as it always was meant to be.
We love classic jazz and we enjoy sharing it with other jazz lovers.
With more and more radio stations dropping classic jazz from their formats, we decided to do something about it by creating Bop City, Vintage Jazz Internet Radio.
And, too much great jazz is out of print. By broadcasting from vintage vinyl LPs we can present a selection of music that is not easily found and rarely heard on the radio.
