Mark Hanslip's Page

My Role

Artist

My Discipline(s)

Music

About Me And My Work

Have a background in many kinds of music, most prominently modern classical music, jazz and free improvised music, but have also been involved in an 'Afrobeat' (for want of a better word...) band, played on records by singer-songwriters, studied Gambian Sabar drumming, played on many records and gigs with Nostalgia 77 (a groove project), been involved in contemporary jazz groups connected to London's F-IRE and Loop collectives, and done plenty of other stuff too... I play the tenor saxophone principally, but also flute and piano. I teach instrumentalists of all ages and levels locally in east London, as well as on the jazz degree course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. My main focus these days is on playing improvised music - I play regularly with bassist Olie Brice and drummer Tony Marsh in the trio TOM-MIX, in a duo (and other formations) with drummer Javier Carmona, with 'Somedectet', an improvising large ensemble, and with others including flautist Neil Metcalfe, pianists Mike Hurley and Alexander Hawkins, and saxophonists Bruce Coates and Paul Dunmall.

Places I Would Like To Visit

Have lived in England for my whole musical life, first growing up in Liverpool, studying in Birmingham, then moving to London where I still reside... on the travel side, I have toured in the USA (Chicago, Milwaukee + NYC) with an afrobeat group, studied Wolof drumming in the Gambia, was involved in a three-band collaboration with Le Bruit du Sign (from Paris) and [iks] in Montreal, Canada, and played at festivals and clubs in Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Turkey, Poland, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland + others

My Web link

http://www.myspace.com/markhanslip