Mark Nightingale


Mark Daryl Nightingale is an English jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.

Career

He began on trombone at age nine, and played in the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in his teens. He attended Trinity College of Music from 1985 to 1988. His first band as leader was a trombone quintet called Bonestructure and he has gone on to front various sized groups from quartets and quintets to a Big Band featuring his own compositions and arrangements. Nightingale toured and recorded with James Morrison in Europe from 1994 to 1997. He has had longstanding musical relationships with John Dankworth, Stan Tracey, Alan Barnes and Andy Panayi. Nightingale has composed for trombone and other brass instruments. His published works include 20 Jazz Etudes, Multiplicity ''Easy Jazzy Tudes, Turning Back the Clock, and Urbieplicity. He played trombone on the album Ten Summoner's Tales'' by Sting.
He has worked with or recorded with Louie Bellson, Ray Brown, Carl Fontana, Urbie Green, Scott Hamilton, Slide Hampton, Bill Holman, Lee Konitz, Cleo Laine, Claire Martin, Clark Terry, and Kenny Wheeler; Steely Dan, Kylie Minogue, Tom Jones, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Henry Mancini, McFly, Frank Sinatra, John Wilson, and Michel Legrand. He occasionally directs the BBC Big Band.
He was design consultant for the first instrument made by Michael Rath Trombones.

Awards and honors

Discography

As leader

Bone Structure I Got Rhythm with the London Brass What I Wanted to Say with Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, Dado Moroni Remember the Time with Clark Terry, Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, Dado Moroni Some of Our Best Friends with the London Trombone Quartet Destiny A Nightingale Sang Out of the Box 21 Trombones in the 21st Century with the New Trombone Collective The Sound of Jay & Kai with Alistair White

As sideman

With Alan BarnesA Dotty Blues The Sherlock Holmes Suite The Marbella Jazz Suite Songs for Unsung Heroes Seven Ages of Jazz A Jazz Christmas Carol Fish Tales 60th Birthday Celebration
With John DankworthNebuchadnezzar Rhythm Changes In a Mellow Tone Live at Ronnie Scotts
With James Newton HowardMaleficent Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
With Claire MartinOld Boyfriends Off Beat A Modern Art
With Andy PanayiBlown Away Time Displaced News from Blueport The Solar Cats Play Woolf Notes Whooeeee!
With Colin TownsMask Orchestra Nowhere & Heaven Bolt from the Blue Dreaming Man with Blue Suede Shoes Another Think Coming
With Robbie WilliamsLive at the Albert Swing When You're Winning Swings Both Ways
With others