Mark Armstrong is one of the leading jazz/latin trumpet players in the UK; in addition to a fiendishly busy gig/touring schedule, he finds time to be Professor of Trumpet at the Royal College of Music and Music Director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra – neither of which is terribly surprising when you hear him play.

As a jazz musician, he was a regular player with the late great Stan Tracey, and has also been featured soloist in Clarke Tracey’s quartet over the years. Mark is also a fixture in the leading big bands in the country, the BBC Big Band and the London Jazz Orchestra, and when the mood takes him, he turns his hand to salsa – he works regularly with Robin Jones’ King Salsa and Cubana Bop, two of the leading salsa groups in the UK at the moment.

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