Colin Steele is a

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

trumpeter from

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. He played pop music with

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during the 1980s. After two years in France he studied jazz at the

Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz ...

before returning to Scotland. He has been known for influences from Latin music and

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

and has recorded several well-regarded albums. He has been increasingly influenced by

Scottish folk music Scottish folk music (also Scottish traditional music) is a genre of folk music that uses forms that are identified as part of the Scottish musical tradition. There is evidence that there was a flourishing culture of popular music in Scotland duri ...

, an influence carried into the additional instrumentation in his group Colin Steele's Stramash. as well as playing in Ceilidh Minogue's horn section

Discography

* 2000 ''Twilight Dreams'' - Colin Steele - Caber (caber024) * 2003 ''The Journey Home'' - Colin Steele - Caber (caber029) * 2005 ''Through the Waves'' - Colin Steele Quintet - ACT (ACT 9436–2) * 2008 ''Stramash'' - Colin Steele - Gadgemo (GAD001) * 2017 ''Even in the darkest places''- Colin Steele - Gadgemo (GAD002) * 2017 ''Diving for Pearls '' - Colin Steele - Marina records (MA82)

References

External links

Colin Steele's website
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Scottish jazz trumpeters Male trumpeters Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 21st-century trumpeters 21st-century British male musicians British male jazz musicians ACT Music artists {{jazz-trumpeter-stub