Mike Hall

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Primary Instrument: Sax, tenor

Mike Hall is an Educator/Jazz Saxophonist and Coordinator of Jazz Studies and academic tutor (Jazz Studies) at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. For about 10 years at the RNCM he is tutor in Jazz Studies, jazz saxophone, teaches improvisation, theory, history and directs the RNCM Big Band and Jazz Collective. He is also a composer and consultant for The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, director of the Canford Jazz Summer School and runs a variety of other jazz improvisation courses at various locations around the UK and France. He has been an active musician for 35 years. After playing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Edinburgh Schools Symphony Orchestra he moved to the saxophone with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and to make frequent national broadcasts with composer/pianist Michael Garrick with whom he toured Malaysia in 1995.

More recently Mike played a week at Ronnie Scott's Club with the Echoes of Ellington Orchestra, a gala concert at the World Saxophone Congress in Slovenia and subsequent UK tour with Andy Scott's Sax Assault and a series of dates with his own jazz quartet. He regularly freelances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Halle Orchestras with guest conductors such as John Wilson. Mike was recently involved in a project involving the RLPO and the Wayne Shorter Quartet. Other projects have included his own jazz chamber group Crystal and music for jazz quartet and string orchestra. Mike has just recorded a CD (‘Over the Moon’, released 2009) with his duo partner, pianist Dan Whieldon. Recently he has also seen his three movement composition for saxophone quartet, ‘Tales of the Sun God’ go into print. (Astute Music).

For more information about Mike, please go to http://www.mikehall.co.uk

Last Updated: March 2, 2011

As a Leader

Over the Moon
with Dan Whieldon
2009
1. Gone with the Wind (Allie Wrubel)
2. Coralie (Enrico Pieranunzi)
3. Bop Boy (Bob Mintzer)
4. Over the Moon (Mike Hall)
5. Marina’s Song (Dan Whieldon)
6. Waltz for Ronnie (Dan Whieldon)
7. Shh… Don’t tell Clair (Mike Hall)
8. This is for Albert (Wayne Shorter)
9. Like Someone in Love (Jimmy Van Heusen)
10. A Ghost of a Chance (Victor Young)
11. Flying High (Mike Hall)
12. When the Sun Comes Down (Joshua Redman)

Mike Hall: Tenor Saxophone
Dan Whieldon: Piano

1999
'Feel the Warmth'
with Mike Hall’s Blueprint

As A Side Musician

2007
‘Sax of Gold'
Andy Scott’s SAX ASSAULT

2005
'Wonderland'
with Laura Beth

2000
'Echoes in the Valley'
Ben Crosland Octet

2000
'Alma Redemptoris Mater'
with the Cambridge Chorale
2000

1999
'Down On Your Knees'
with Michael Garrick Big Band

1996
'For Love of Duke'
with Michael Garrick Big Band

1996
'BANG!'
Andy Scott’s SAX ASSAULT

1995
'Made in Manchester'
with Ascension (Steve Plews Group)

1994
'Meteors Close at Hand'
with Michael Garrick Big Band

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