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Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance

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Accident and Insurgency (2008)


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rnie Somogyi's Ambulance features five of the UK's most accomplished young jazz musicians, in collaboration with U.S. jazz trumpet and flugelhorn legend Eddie Henderson. Arnie Somogyi is one of the UK's leading jazz bass players and innovative new bandleaders. Starting out on the violin at 5, bass guitar at 14 and later the double bass, Arnie began playing with Portishead's Adrian Utley during a BA Hons course in English at Bristol University before moving onto The Guildhall in London to study music exclusively. Arnie is a much-sought after musician, composer, bandleader and a jazz educator at Birmingham Conservatoire. He's played with many of the world's top jazz musicians from Steve Grossman, James Moody, Bobby Hutcherson, Annie Ross and Claire Martin, to Art Farmer, Joey Calderazzo and Bud Shank. He has featured on over 30 albums with leading talents including Urban Species, Galliano, Omar, Chris Botti and The Verve's Richard Ashcroft. He's also performed on film soundtracks including "The Talented Mr Ripley", and presented two BBC Radio 4 ‘road-movie-for-radio' documentaries about Eastern Europe. As one of the "all-stars" he performs regularly at Ronnie Scott's, one of the world's leading jazz venues. Arnie is also a partner in music production outfit, VoodooKazoo. His first album as leader and composer in 2000, "Cold Cherry Soup", received widespread critical acclaim and was chosen as BBC Music Magazine's Jazz Pick of the Month. He created and led the acclaimed Hungary Jazz Festival in Soho in May 2002, starring some of the UK's and Hungary's finest jazz artists. Arnie was also the motivating force behind IMPROVOKATION, a ground-breaking Anglo-Hungarian 10-piece ensemble of leading jazz and folk musicians. The debut tour in 2004, backed by Arts Council East, included Cheltenham International Jazz Festival, Appleby Jazz Festival & Ronnie Scott's. Ambulance is his latest project as bandleader - a highly original five-piece band of young and ambitious musicians, launched at Ronnie Scott's in 2005. The band was chosen for the first-ever jazz-residency at the prestigious Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh in Spring 2006, where they created an entirely original set of new music for their debut album ‘Accident and Insurgency', released on Linn Records (AKD 306). The band's subsequent performances at Ronnie Scott's in September 2006 and UK tour in 2007 with legendary guest trumpeter Eddie Henderson won extensive plaudits across the national press.
Eddie Henderson trumpet and flugelhorn
Eddie Henderson is one of the world's truly legendary jazz trumpeters.
Born in New York City and the son of a Cotton Club dancer, Eddie grew up surrounded by some of the world's greatest jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis. He began playing the trumpet at the age of 10 and studied music theory at the San Francisco Conservatory from the age of 14, before later completing a degree in medicine at Berkeley.
It was Miles Davis who convinced Eddie to become a professional jazz musician and after gigs with Miles and John Handy, Eddie joined the legendary Herbie Hancock Sextet (who also recorded as the Mwandishi Band) in 1968. This highly experimental and successful band delved deeply into fusion and free jazz for three years.
Eddie continued in the fusion style during the seventies, making albums for Capricorn and Blue Note and joining
Art Blakey's band for a while. He jammed around the Bay Area with great musicians such as Joe Henderson and Pharoah Sanders.
In the early nineties he moved back to New York where his career took off again with a series of exceptional albums for Steeple Chase and Milestone, while also working as a psychiatrist. So as well as a great musician, he is also a qualified doctor - just what every Ambulance needs! Eddie is now a much sought after performer on the international jazz circuit and plays regularly with leading musicians and bands in the US, Europe and Asia. Most importantly, he has also played with Ambulance as a featured guest on UK tours in 2006 and 2007 - a powerful combination that received considerable acclaim.
Tim Lapthorn is developing into one of Britain's most exceptional young pianists. His enigmatic and melodic, yet ‘loose-cannon' style, is distinctive, expressive, different and ambitious. Born in Newmarket in 1976 and raised in Cambridge, Tim initially studied French and philosophy at Leeds University before deciding to follow his musical ambitions and completing a postgraduate jazz diploma at the Guildhall School of Music in 2000 where he studied under Simon Purcell, Nikki Iles and Pete Churchill.
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