STEVE FISHWICK QUINTET

Tickets £10, Doors 7pm, Performance 9pm

STEVE FISHWICK Quintet

2002 British Jazz Awards ‘Rising Star’ winner Steve Fishwick was born and raised in Manchester to the sounds of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. He entered the then thriving Manchester jazz scene, playing their first professional gigs whilst still in his early ‘teens, with musicians that are now key players in the London and European scene. Since moving to London and completing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 1998, where he earned a Batchelor of Music degree, Steve has played with most leading UK, European and US jazz musicians such as Sir John Dankworth, Peter King, George Mraz, Dado Moroni, Claus Raibler and Joe Haider, Anita O’ Day (recording with her on her last album ‘Indestructible!’), Scott Hamilton, Herb Geller, Richie Cole, Ben Dixon,Bob Cranshaw, Earl May, Clifford Jarvis, Ronnie Cuber, Keith Copland and Hod O’Brien amongst many others.

He leads his own quartet and co-leads a quintet with Welsh saxophonist Osian Roberts, with whom he recorded an album in NYC with legendary American pianist Cedar Walton and bass great Peter Washington, released in September 2009. His latest project is ‘The Fishwick Brothers Quintet’ co-led with his brother Matt (who recently returned to the UK after living in New York for 5 years). On the more commercial side of music he has performed with such stars as Kylie Minogue, Jools Holland and Jamie Cullum and he can be heard playing the jazz trumpet solos on the soundtrack to the recent British movie ‘Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll’. As well as a thriving performing career Steve is also a teacher and is professor of jazz trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

“These artists are the preservers of the classic ‘Blue Note’ Hard Bop/Be Bop sound of the 1960’s.” Snowboy - reviewed in Blues and Soul web magazine.

“Steve Fishwick’s trumpet crackles with energy. There are other young bands playing in this genre but few with such panache.” Dave Gelly - ‘Too Much!’ reviewed in The Observer.