Member Since: 9/15/2006
Band Website: theandymorrisquartet.co.uk
Band Members:
The regular members of the quartet are:
Andrew Morris
I am a Masters Graduate who is both a Woodwind Performer and Educator. My main instruments are various Saxophones, Clarinet, Flute and Piccolo. I have led my own band for a number of years whilst continuing to work as a freelance musician. As a result of this work I have toured Europe as a Soloist and Deputy Musical Director with various bands as well as regular work in the U.K. I have played in bands for television and radio broadcasts, performed in Stage Bands backing the likes of Brian Conley and Shane Ritchie as well as visiting American singers and entertainers. I have played seasons and freelance at holiday camps and undertaken cruise line work, which has enabled me to perform in and visit many parts of the world. I am also an Educator working in schools and colleges, as well as in my own private studio, teaching instrumental Woodwind performance and also jazz and classical music theory to a varied age range.
For my personal site please see
myspace.com/woodwindplayerLaurence Turner
Laurence is a graduate of Leeds College of Music where he was the first recipient of the Ernest Wren Memorial Prize for electronic keyboard performance and had a scholarship with Philip Moore, Master of the Music at York Minster. He has played in a variety of environments from churches to pubs, holiday camps to castles, theatres to stately homes and even people’s back gardens. He has played in a variety of line-ups from solo to pit orchestra to big band and most numbers in between as a performer in stage shows, concerts and recitals, backing cabaret acts (often with no rehearsal), and for dances and special occasions. He has performed nationally and internationally, on boats - cruising up the Thames, on HMS Warrior – ferries – for Wightlink, Brittany Ferries and Sealink – and even on SS Canberra. As a past teacher of piano, organ, keyboards and theory Laurence enjoyed a 100% pass success rate.
Paul Jones
Paul is also a graduate. He has been performing for a number of years for shows, orchestras and cruise line work in a professional capacity and is currently also teaching music in schools. Paul plays bass in the band and sings a varied range of musical styles and tempos in the quartet including well-known standards and showtunes.
Spencer Bundy
Spencer is an ex RAF musician. He is highly experienced at performing in function bands, orchestras and cruise line work, often as the musical director and is currently combining performing with teaching at the University of Chichester and for local schools. Spencer plays drums with the band.
The band can also be reduced in size to a solo sax and backing tracks, sax and piano duo or trio without the bass / vocals or augmented e.g. solo vocalist, trumpet and / or saxophones added, if the occasion is suitable.
Influences: Saxophone influences include:
Jazz - Art Pepper, Cannonball Adderley, David Sanborn, Gerald Albright, Phil Woods, Charlie Parker, Grover Washington, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Michael Brecker, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz.
Classical - John Harle, Marcel Mule, Eugene Rousseau
Clarinet influences include:
Jazz - Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw.
Classical - Emma Johnson, Thea King, Gervais De Peyer.
Flute influences include:
Jazz - James Moody, Herbie Mann.
Classical - James Galway, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Peter-Lukas Graf.
Band influences include
BBC Big Band, NYJO, Glen Miller, Ted Heath.
Other influences
Basically everyone I've played with up to this point has had an influence on my playing and how I try to run the quartet.
Sounds Like: The highly experienced professional jazz and function band that it is!
Type of Label: None