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Jack Davies

Having completed his classical training at the Royal Northern College of Music, Jack is currently studying jazz trumpet at post-graduate level at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Jack studies jazz trumpet with Gerard Presencer, Nick Smart and Pete Churchill. At the RNCM, he was a regular member of the RNCM Big Band with who he played with such figures as Norma Winstone, Colin Towns, and Chris Potter.

In his second year at the RNCM he won the college's solo brass competition, the Goronwy Evans Brass Prize, and in his third year was awarded with the Terence Greaves Prize for Big Band Composition (for his work with The Sound of the North Big Band). In 2008 Jack also led The Sound of the North Big Band to the final of the MBF's Peter Whittingham Award for Innovation in Jazz Music. Jack was recently awarded the Principal's Prize for Improvisation in a competition judged by Sir John Dankworth.

Awards

2009 RNCM Principal's Award for Improvisation (Awarded by Sir John Dankworth) 2008 Terence Greaves Prize for Big Band Music 2007 Gorowny Evans Solo Brass Prize


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Profile

Jack Davies: Inventing Himself

Read "Jack Davies: Inventing Himself" reviewed by Duncan Heining


"Jack's formal education has given him useful tools but above all he has drive and determination and ideas, which cannot be taught." class="f-right">--Colin Towns, composer, bandleaderand producer of The Jack Davies Big Band (V&V, 2012).

The jazz big band is a wondrous beast. Caught in movement and it's like a big cat, with barely contained violence ready to strike. It can be subtle; smooth, even, but when it rolls over and acts all coy and gentle, watch ...

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Album Review

Jack Davies Big Band: The Jack Davies Big Band

Read "The Jack Davies Big Band" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Composer/trumpeter Jack Davies is nothing if not eclectic. His current catalog of releases includes the unusually configured chamber quartet, Flea Circus, featuring bass clarinet and accordion. Simultaneously, Davies has released a contemporary quintet collection that channels Miles Davis by way of more modern influences. While both of these recordings are stellar, Davies' crowning achievement of the moment is his forward-thinking approach to the large ensemble sound. The Jack Davies Big Band's self-titled debut is a distinctive, cutting edge ensemble that ...

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Extended Analysis

Jack Davies Big Band: The Jack Davies Big Band

Read "Jack Davies Big Band: The Jack Davies Big Band" reviewed by Chris May


Jack Davies Big BandThe Jack Davies Big BandV&V Music2012With its debut album, trumpeter and composer Jack Davies' big band has joined an elite strand of British orchestras--Loose Tubes, flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler's outfits and Colin Towns' Mask Orchestra prominent among them--which have enriched and expanded the original big band aesthetic imported from the US. A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), where he studied classical music, and the Royal Academy ...

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The quiet lead from the front is in the shape of trumpeter Jack Davies. Davies' continuing relentless passion for learning and achieving is always evident, no performance being the same, the audience being allowed the briefest of insights into his continuing journey. He has a beautiful tone, a thorough understanding of the tradition and of the trumpet greats before him not to mention an unrivalled passion for all things jazz that shows itself left, right and centre.

- Sand Bar Jazz www.myspace.com/sandbarjazz

Primary Instrument

Trumpet

Location

London

Willing to teach

Beginner to advanced

Credentials/Background

BMus (Hons) in Classical Trumpet (Royal Northern College of Music) MA in Jazz Trumpet (Royal Academy of Music)

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Small World

From: Small World
By Jack Davies

Travelling Again

From: Small World
By Jack Davies

Entropy

From: The Jack Davies Big Band
By Jack Davies

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