About Me
"Great set, great arrangements, great front-man.... What a way to open the final day" (Scarborough Jazz Festival 2006)
- Alan Barnes, award-winning saxophonist
"Matt Balls excellent quintet offers the archetype of a hard bop band....With good presentation, communicative announcements, tidy matching suits, a thoughtful program, and a twelve-bar sting to end the set neatly, the quintet provided an enjoyable professional performance."
- John Robert Brown, Chairman of the Saxophone Society of Great Britain
The Matthew Ball Quintet is a jazz ensemble of professional musicians who are all graduates from Leeds College of Music. They play original arrangements and compositions in a wide range of styles from Modern Jazz to New Orleans. They are very popular on the northern jazz scene and has been featured as one of Jazz Yorkshires showcase bands, recently performing at Scarborough Jazz Festival, The Wardrobe and a Live Lounge session for BBC radio. The quintet will be performing at Wigan International Jazz Festival in July, 2007. The band also regularly caters for functions across the UK providing a variety of music to suit.
As well as the quintet, Matthew works as a free-lance trombonist, and arranger. A recent graduate of Leeds College of Music with a BA in Jazz Studies, Matthew is an accomplished jazz player, session musician and lead-trombonist.
Since graduating from LCM, Matthew has worked alongside renowned artists and bands including Gloria Gaynor, Elbow, Atomic Kitten, X- Factor finalist Raymond Quinn, Peter Grant, Andy Prior, Claire Sweeney, Tina May and Claire Teale. He has worked in big bands and theatre shows including the Glenn Miller Orchestra UK – directed by Ray McVay, New Squadronaires, Memphis Belle Orchestra, Viva Las Vegas, John Miller and his Orchestra, Schwing, NYJO, the Ellington Experience Orchestra and the National Festival Orchestra. He had also worked on various TV and film projects including the movie adaptation of Brideshead Revisited (2008).
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