Mark Lockheart

Mark Lockheart (* 1961 in Lymington ) is a British jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and pianist.

Mark Lockheart was in the 1980s a member of the Big Band lineup Loose Tubes, then played with Billy Jenkins and Django Bates ( Summer Fruits ( and Unrest ) ). From 1987 to 1991 he had a trio with Sreve Berry and Peter Fairclough; from the early 1990s, he belonged to the formation Perfect Houseplants with Dudley Phillips and Martin France. In 1994 he played in the big band of Gail Thompson; In 1995 he was one of the band of bassist Geoff Gascoyne on ( Voices of Spring) and entered into the Big Band of Graham Collier on the London Jazz Festival (Charles River Fragments ). In 1997 he played with Huw Warren, 1998 Roger Beaujolais and 1999 at John Parricelli. From the 2000s he was a member of the formation of Polar Bear (Held On The Tips Of Fingers, 2005). In 2005, with Moving Air Lockheart recorded the first album under his own name.

Lockheart also worked as a composer for television projects at the BBC and Michael Gibbs, also worked with bands such as Radiohead, Prefab Sprout and Stereolab; He teaches at Trinity College of Music in London and at Middlesex University.

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Perfect Houseplants

• CLEC ( EFZ, 1994)
• Snap Clatter ( Linn, 1996)
• New Folk Songs ( Linn, 2000)

Albums under his own name

• Moving Air ( Basho, 2005) with John Parricelli, Dudley Phillips, Martin France

Swell

• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 9th Edition, London, Penguin, 2008, ISBN 978-0141034010.