A saxophonist who compares with the very finest anywhere, Mark cut his teeth on the British jazz scene with the groundbreaking big band, Loose Tubes before going on to play with a succession of bands that came to be identified with an English sound: Django Bates’ Delightful Precipice and Perfect Houseplants.

In the last decade Mark has come to be regarded as one of the most striking voices on the European jazz scene, being awarded Jazz Musician of the Year in the 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards and releasing Days Like These with the NDR Big Band, probably Europe’s finest working big band. In addition to his own projects, Mark has worked with the Mercury Prize nominees Polar Bear since the early noughties and recorded, toured etc with Robert Wyatt, Radiohead, and Prefab Sprout.

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