| Andy is an award winning trombonist having been an active professional since the 1990’s. He has led his own jazz quartet, the ADJQ, on 3 albums and performing throughout the UK in jazz festivals, clubs and concerts as well as been a member of big bands and jazz orchestras NYJO, Syd Lawrence Orchestra, the Jazz Repertory Company and in theatres with acts celebrating the music of Neil Diamond, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, James Bond movies and much more. He is a busy freelance orchestral player having performed with the CBSO, RLPO, Manchester Concert Orchestra and the Brunel Ensemble As a conductor, he has led youth big bands, community wind bands, school orchestras and brass bands and was musical director for a series of performances of an orchestra and rock band playing club dance hits. |  |
Andy was worked alongside such notable musicians as Georgie Fame, Sir Simon Rattle, Bobby Shew, Sir John Rutter, Mark Nightingale, Sir David Willcocks, Alan Barnes, Bruce Adams, Jeff Hooper, Sir Mark Elder and many more.
Awards include winner of the Guild of Guardians, Bristol Music Award 1991; finalist in the Young Jazz Musician of the Year 1996, BMI Brass Award 1996 and best Trombonist in the BBC Big Band Contest 2005.
His three albums Fancy Goods (2005), In A Sentimental Mood (2012) and Just Friends (2015) received favourable reviews and represent the breadth and depth of his trombone jazz style from swinging standards and tender ballads to driving funk and unique originals.
Since 1996 he has been an established teacher of brass focusing on trombone, bass trombone and tuba. With a proven track record of tuition at Birmingham Conservatoire, Coventry University and Warwick Schools Foundation, he has also maintained a private tuition practice working with individuals and groups in brass and music composition and ensemble coaching.
Composition has also been central to Andy’s music making. Since studying with Richard Leigh Harris and John Mayer, Andy has gone on to produce many commercial and educational works for brass which are published here and with Warwick Music. He has compositions featured on the ABRSM, Trinity and Music Teachers’ Board syllabus for trumpet, trombone and tuba.
