Julian H. Siegel (born 1966 in

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east ...

) is a British

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 ...

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

and

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

player, and a

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and

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, described by MOJO Magazine as "One of the UK's most creative saxophonists" Siegel has toured and recorded with

Greg Cohen Greg Cohen (born July 13, 1953) is an American jazz bassist who has been a member of John Zorn's Masada quartet and worked with numerous other noted musicians for over four decades. Career Cohen plays traditional jazz and other styles, includi ...

and

Joey Baron Bernard Joseph Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer who plays frequently with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. Music career Baron was born on June 26, 1955, in Richmond Virginia. When he was nine, ...

and was awarded the

BBC Jazz Awards The BBC Jazz Awards were set up in 2001 and had the status of one of the premier jazz awards in the United Kingdom (among those presenting the awards were Denis Lawson, Sue Mingus, Humphrey Lyttelton, Ian Carr, Clive James, Mike Gibbs, Julian Jo ...

2007 for Best Instrumentalist. Siegel won the 2011

London Awards for Art and Performance The London Awards for Art and Performance is awarded in 11 different art categories, by the London Festival Fringe. It is awarded each year, at a central London venue, and is presented to artists and performers who have made an outstanding contrib ...

Jazz. In 2015 won his quartet ''Partisans'' (

Gene Calderazzo Gene Calderazzo (born 23 April 1961 in New York City) is an American jazz drummer residing in the United Kingdom, where he is a visiting tutor at the Birmingham Conservatoire The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school, drama school ...

Phil Robson Phil Robson is a British jazz guitarist, bandleader, and composer currently based in New York City. Biography Born in Derby (Derbyshire), England in 1970, Robson began guitar studies at age 14. He played in the house rhythm section at the lo ...

, Thad Kelly) with the album ''Swamp'' the

Parliamentary Jazz Awards The Parliamentary Jazz Awards in the United Kingdom are organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG) at the Houses of Parliament in London. The group consists of over a hundred members drawn from across the UK politica ...

''Jazz Album of the Year''.

Discography

without fix groups

*''Partisans'' (EFZ, 1997) with Phil Robson *''Close-Up'' (Sound Recordings, 2002) *''As One Does (FMR Records, 2018) with Paul Dunmall, Percy Pursglove, Mark Sanders

with ''Partisans''

*''Sourpuss'' Babel BDV 2029 2000 *''Max'' Babel BDV2553 2005 *''By Proxy'' Babel BDV 2983 2009 *''Swamp''

Whirlwind Recordings Whirlwind Recordings is a London, UK-based independent record label established in 2010 by Michael Janisch (musician), Michael Janisch. History The label was founded in 2010 by bassist, composer, educator and producer Michael Janisch (musician), M ...

WR4657 2014 *''Nit de Nit'' Whirlwind Recordings WR4738 2019

with Julian Siegel Quartet

*''Urban Theme Park'' 2011 with Gene Calderazzo, Liam Noble, Oli Hayhurst *''Vista'' 2018 with Gene Calderazzo, Liam Noble, Oli Hayhurst

References

External links

Biography
at Siegel's official website * * Living people People from Nottingham 1966 births Alumni of the University of East Anglia English jazz saxophonists British male saxophonists 21st-century saxophonists 21st-century British male musicians British male jazz musicians Basho Records artists {{UK-jazz-musician-stub