I began playing cornet at an early age with my local brass band. However at 17 my eyes were opened to the glories of jazz and improvisation by the great blues guitarist and philosopher Mike Atherton and I haven't looked back.
I studied at the University of Salford from 94-97 and was slowly introduced to the Manchester jazz scene, cutting my teeth at the Black Horse Jam sessions and down at the Kings Arms (still going and still run by Ed Kainyek, that guy is a jazz martyr).I now live in London and work freelance, gigging throughout the UK and elsewhere in (as usual) a wide variety of musical settings and with a wide variety of musicians.In 2001 I formed the Barnwell / Chadwick Quartet with pianist Ed Barnwell, bassist Matt Owens and Drummer Danny Ward. The group focuses on performances of original music and other things we find interesting. In 2005, as a group we worked on a special project for jazz quartet and string quartet (The Barnwell Chadwick Double Quartet) which had it's premiere at the 2005 Manchester Jazz Festival ("Rapturously beautiful"-Jazz UK).My most recent project is the Magic Hat Ensemble, a bop orientated group with a penchant for f**king with tunes in a great way, for tunes and dates check out www.myspace.com/themagichatensemble.Plus two projects in the making are THE MESS with my long term musical associate and now housemate Steve Band, it's gonna be good. "Does she.....", and The Brassholes, a rather fine and creative horn section.Also I'm am proud to have one of my compositions included in the recently published Real Book Northwest alongside tunes by many fine Northwesterly musicians, a most excellent publication which I urge you to buy! visit www.nwjazzworks.org for more information
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