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Mark Hanslip

Mark started out playing on the Birmingham jazz and improvised music scenes, working regularly in groups led by pianist Steve Tromans and altoist Chris Bowden. He was an early member of Hans Koller Ensemble, recording 2 CDs, and shortly after moving to London he co-founded the Loop Collective and became one of the busiest players on the capital's new jazz scene, working with groups including Nostalgia 77, Outhouse, Twelves, Jonathan Bratoeff Quartet and Keith Tippett. He has played at many major festivals and venues in the UK, Europe and US and has been broadcast several times on Resonance 104.4FM, BBC Radios 1 and 3, and on the internet. Since turning his attention towards improvised music he has played with Neil Metcalfe, Mark Sanders, Veryan Weston, Javier Carmona, Tony Bianco, Tony Marsh, Evan Parker, Olie Brice, Paul Dunmall and Paul Hession among others. Now based in the north of England, he currently plays solo with electronics, with organ trio Revival Room, Johnny Hunter Quartet and with laptopist Federico Reuben and drummer Paul Hession, with frequent album releases on Efpi Records and Discus Music. He also completed a PhD in music and applied artificial intelligence at the University of York in 2023.

Gear

King Super 20 Silversonic tenor saxophone. Ed Pillinger NYT mouthpiece with custom facing. Macbook Pro running custom software written in SuperCollider, FluCoMa and Python. DIY effects unit based on the Bela platform.


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Album Review

Johnny Hunter / Mark Hanslip / Olie Brice: Divisions

Read "Divisions" reviewed by John Sharpe


Divisions might seem a strange choice of title for such a cohesive set. It is the name of a four-part suite written by drummer Johnny Hunter for this all British trio completed by bassist Olie Brice and tenor saxophonist Mark Hanslip. As well as his own dates, such as Pale Blue Dot (Northern Contemporary, 2020) for string quartet, sax and drums, Hunter also stokes the fires of Cath Roberts' Sloth Racket and the collective Spinningwork (NEWJAiM, 202z). Perhaps the divide ...

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Recording

Mark Hanslip and Javier Carmona - Dosados (Babel Label, 2011) ****a1/2

Mark Hanslip and Javier Carmona - Dosados (Babel Label, 2011) ****a1/2

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels

By Joe Higham Mark Hanslip is a name that appears regularly along with Mark Sanders, Paul Dunmall, Mike Hurley, the excellent trio with Olie Brice and Tony Marsh 'Tom-Mix,' and also more recently the splendid Twelves 'Adding Machine,' reviewed here in March 2011. Along with colleague Javier Carmona, another mainstay of the lively UK free scene, the two have been working towards this CD, a much anticipated set of duets, the fruit of regular duo gigs and sessions throughout the ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Divisions

Discus Music
2023

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A Consequence In...

Efpi Records
2023

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Pale Blue Dot

Northern Contemporary
2020

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Dosados

Babel Label
2012

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DosadoS

Babel Label
2011

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