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Mike Gibbs 85th birthday celebration (Night 1 – 1st Show)

Doors 7:00 PM, Music 7:30 PM

 

Line-up:

Conductor/composer/arranger – Mike Gibbs
Conductor – Josephine Davies
Saxes – Tom Challenger; Talfan Jenkins; Julian Siegel; Matthew Lambert
Trumpets – Tom Walsh; Josh Short; Alex Polack; Christie Smith; Billy Rowlatt
Trombones – Matt Seddon; James Wade-Sired; Olivia Hughes; Richard Henry
Vibes – Lewis Wright
Guitar – Joseph Leighton
Piano – Hans Koller
Bass – Kobe Heath Ngugi
Drums – Gene Calderazzo

 

About

Mike Gibbs 85th birthday celebration with the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Mike Gibbs & Josephine Davies.

Mike returns to the club for this special two-nighter to celebrate his 85th birthday year.

Brit-jazz composer and arranger Michael Gibbs was born in 1937 in Zimbabwe. Starting in 1959, he studied in Boston at the Berklee College of Music, the Boston Conservatory , Tanglewood and the Lenox School of Music, where he studied with a who is who of contemporary jazz and modern composition: George Russell, Gunther Schuller, Iannis Xenakis, Aaron Copland, J.J Johnson and others. In 1964 he moved to the UK, where he engaged himself in the rapidly emerging contemporary UK jazz scene. He has worked as a free-lance composer, doing arrangements and orchestrations for major names such as Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Peter Gabriel among many others, while recording and touring his own music featuring artists such Gary Burton, Bill Frisell, Steve Swallow, Kenny Wheeler, Mike Brecker, John Scofield, and Norma Winstone.

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