Steve Waterman with The Neil Burns Trio

       Steve Waterman is one of the top British jazz trumpet players both at home and on the international scene. He began his career while studying at Trinity College Of Music, and since then has worked regularly on the British and European jazz scene.
Steve has recorded many critically acclaimed CDs under his own name and has toured Europe playing at many of the major Jazz Festivals with the Carla Bley Big Band and recorded two CDs for the ECM label. He was invited to perform at the Havana Jazz Festival as guest of Chucho Valdes with a Cuban big band – the band, with up to 25 members, fronted by Bobby Carcassés with many of the greatest Cuban jazz musicians, played 3 concerts in Havana and Santa Clara; the programme included Waterman directing his ‘Concerto for Congas’ and works by Cuban Jazz composer Jorge Triana Hdz.
Steve is professor of Jazz Trumpet at Trinity College of Music in London and visiting Jazz Trumpet specialist at The Royal Northern College Of Music and The Welsh College Of Music And Drama. Steve runs his own Annual Contemporary Big Band Jazz Weekend with Alan Barnes, and also teaches on many summer jazz courses and has conducted numerous Trumpet master classes and workshops ranging in size from small groups to big bands throughout the UK and in Spain, Finland, Latvia, South Africa and Cuba.
Steve has won numerous jazz awards over the years, and was once again this year placed in the British Jazz Awards. He is renowned for his beautiful rendition of ballads and is equally at home with rousing up-tempo numbers.

The Neil Burns Trio has been performing in jazz clubs and festivals for the past six years.
The trio have built a good working friendship with top jazz trumpeter Steve Waterman and Neil has organised several short tours in the West Country from St. Ives to Ilminster & further afield for the trio with Steve joining them as a Special Guest. Expect to hear a generous helping of standards from the great American songbook plus modern jazz classics and one or two original compositions.
Neil Burns is one of the finest guitarist to emerge in the West Country in recent years. He was born in Scotland near Glasgow. He started playing the guitar at the age of nine and in his teens he was a member of Devon Youth Jazz orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland. He started playing professionally in his late teens before attending Middlesex University to study jazz where he graduated with an honours degree in Jazz (BA Music). He has toured all over Europe and the UK with the Pete Allen jazz band, played at European jazz festivals in many countries including Holland, France, Denmark and Germany and recorded two albums with the band.
Neil is now in great demand as an accompanist for many visiting star musicians from the UK and the USA and has played with many renowned musicians including Jacquie Dankworth, Simon Spillet, Alex Garnett, Dave Newton, Mark Bassey, Carol Sudhalter (USA), Steve Waterman. Zoe Rahman, Damon Brown, Steve Watts, Jim Mullen and most recently Clare Teal in the Swing Machine Jazz Orchestra.

The Trio is completed by Al Swainger and Coach York.
Al is a fine musician well known to Plymouth Jazz Club audiences as bass player in various West Country groups including Craig Milverton's Trio and is a member of Digby Fairweather's Half-Dozen. He has played with a vast number of leading British and foreign musicians.
Coach York provides a swinging and driving beat for the group. He is possibly the busiest drummer in the West Country and is also a regular member of the Craig Milverton Trio.

An evening of top class swinging jazz standards from a top-rated trumpeter backed by a terrific Trio. Not to be missed!

             

Steve Waterman                                          Neil Burns


             

Al Swainger                              Coach York