Mark Charig

Mark Charig ( born February 22, 1944 in London as Mark Bloomfield ) is a British jazz trumpeter (also cornet, flugelhorn and alto horn ).

Initially he worked as a pop musician with blues and soul bands, Charig for Keith Tippett (1969 to 1971) and Georgie Fame (1974 ) and especially for Elton Dean and Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath worked. On some productions of Soft Machine and King Crimson, he worked with, but he was also a member of the London Jazz Composers ' Orchestra since 1972. Charig recorded under his own name and with Harry Miller and worked increasingly in the area of ​​free jazz. In 1980 he moved to Amsterdam, where he was a member of Maarten Altena's Septet. He also played in a quartet and nonet by Fred Van Hove ( with Radu Malfatti ), in Willem van Manen's Contraband, King Übü Orchestrü by Wolfgang Fuchs, Didier Levallet, with Phil Wachsmann and baby summer, but also in the Globe Unity Orchestra, the Dedication Orchestra and Peter Kowald Wuppertal workshop. Currently a resident of Euskirchen Charig plays with Quatuohr (Joachim Zoepf, Wolfgang Schliemann, Ulrich Phillipp ) and Fine Works.

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  • Martin Kunzler: jazz lexicon. Volume 1 Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-16512-0.
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