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Guy Barker

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Guy Barker
MBE
Guy Barker and Jean Toussaint in 2007
Guy Barker and Jean Toussaint in 2007
Background information
Birth nameGuy Jeffrey Barker
Born (1957-12-26) 26 December 1957 (age 66)
Chiswick, London, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • composer
  • bandleader
Instrument(s)Trumpet
Years active1975–present

Guy Jeffrey Barker, MBE (born 26 December 1957) is an English jazz trumpeter and composer.[1]

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Early life

Barker was born in Chiswick, London, the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve, and within a year had joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.[1] At the age of 15 he was playing with the Crouch End Allstars along with Wally Fawkes and Bob Nadkarni.

Later life and career

After lessons from Clark Terry in 1975, Barker went on in the 1980s to play with John Dankworth, Gil Evans (with whose orchestra he toured and recorded in 1983), Lena Horne, and Bobby Watson.[1]

Barker was a member of Clark Tracey's quintet from 1984 to 1992.[1] As a sideman he has played with Ornette Coleman, Carla Bley, Georgie Fame, James Carter, Mike Westbrook, Frank Sinatra, Colin Towns, Natalie Merchant, ABC, The The, Haircut One Hundred, Erasure, Chris Botti, Wham!, Kajagoogoo, The Housemartins, Matt Bianco, Alphaville, The Style Council, Swing Out Sister, The Moody Blues, Sting, Bucks Fizz, Mike Oldfield, Cleo Laine, Acoustic Alchemy, XTC, and Stan Tracey.

Previously, his own band has featured an international mix of musicians – Perico Sambeat (alto saxophone; Spain), Bernardo Sassetti (piano; Portugal), Geoff Gascoyne (bass, United Kingdom), and Gene Calderazzo (drums; United States)

More recently he has toured the Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra – a 15 piece big band featuring Rosario Giuliani (alto saxophone; Italy) and Per Johansson (tenor saxophone; Sweden) – performing DZF, a reworking of Mozart's Magic Flute with Michael Brandon narrating the story as a Raymond Chandler-style novel, retold by Robert Ryan.

Barker was music director and arranger for the opening gala concert "Jazz Voice: Celebrating a Century of Song" at the London Jazz Festival annually from 2008 to 2014. He was also music director and arranger on a number of BBC Radio 2 Friday night is music night shows featuring the Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra with the BBC Concert Orchestra, celebrating the music of Billie Holiday[2] / Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn[3] / Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin and Dusty Springfield[4] / Jazz Royalty to celebrate the Wedding of William and Kate[5]

Barker was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to jazz.[6][7] He was awarded the BASCA Gold Badge in 2013.[8] He also recorded with Gordon Haskell a new version of the latter's hit single, "How Wonderful You Are". A samba version of the track is on The Cat Whose Got The Cream album (2020).[9]

Discography

With Mike Westbrook

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 31/2. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio 2 - Friday Night is Music Night, 02/05/2008". Bbc.co.uk. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  3. ^ "BBC Radio 2 - Friday Night is Music Night, 01/05/2009". Bbc.co.uk. 1 May 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 2 - Friday Night is Music Night, Ella, Aretha, Dusty and Me". Bbc.co.uk. 26 March 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  5. ^ "BBC Radio 2 - Friday Night is Music Night, Jazz Royalty Special". Bbc.co.uk. 29 April 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  6. ^ "No. 61092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2014. p. N16.
  7. ^ 2015 New Year Honours List, Gov.uk
  8. ^ "News: Guy Barker to be awarded BASCA/PRS Gold Badge". London Jazz News. 25 September 2013. Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  9. ^ "Gordon Haskell: The Cat Who's Got The Cream". Jazzjournal.co.uk. 12 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2021.

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