Stockport
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, Cheshire, England) is a British jazz and
folk
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musician.
Biography
Yates studied music at
Salford University
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, mottoeng = "Let us seek higher things"
, established = 1850 - Pendleton Mechanics Institute 1896 – Royal Technical Institute, Salford 1967 – gained ...
before moving to London to study
jazz
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at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
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. He lived and worked in London for eight years, playing jazz with
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
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Denys Baptiste
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,
Jazz Jamaica All Stars
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,
Supergrass
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Black Grape
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Lighthouse Family
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Will Young
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Raw Stylus
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Suggs
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In a music career spanning 40 years, he came to prominence in the ...
,
Matt Bianco
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,
Robbie Williams
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and
Rhian Benson
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Early life
Benson was born in Accra, Ghana, to a Welsh mother, who was a singer, and an Ashanti father, who was a g ...
.
Yates then chose to spend a year living in a small caravan travelling round the folk music festivals of Britain and Ireland, learning and playing traditional
Celtic music
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, before moving out to the coast of North
Wales
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coast to play and write, and to study
Celtic music
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. During this time he was playing and recording with folk musicians such as
Michael McGoldrick
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,
Kate Rusby
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,
John McCusker
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,
Karen Matheson
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(Capercaille) and John Joe Kelly. Yates was a featured solo artist in Belfast Open House Festival's "Trad with a Difference" evening as the only person ever to successfully interpret Irish traditional styles onto the trumpet.
Yates later formed the band e2K, a group influenced by jazz, English
folksong
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, Irish melodies and rhythms from
Ghana
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(West Africa). It was with this group that Yates secured a two-album deal with the London-based independent record label
Topic Records
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.
Yates was a featured soloist in the
Manchester Jazz Festival {{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022
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2005 special commission alongside pianist John Taylor. It was at this festival that Yates debuted his own project "New Origins". The band later recorded in March the same year and released their album ''Neil Yates: New Origins'', on Yates' own label, Carnyx Records.
As a composer Yates was commissioned to write "Sketches of a Northern Town" for
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2006, also performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2007 and later to write "Surroundings" – an antiphonal suite for jazz orchestra that premiered at
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2010.
In November 2011 British jazz label
Edition Records
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Salford University
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. He formerly held similar posts at
Royal Northern College of Music
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and the
Birmingham Conservatoire
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.
Discography
As a leader
*2011: "Five Countries" — Neil Yates (Edition Records)
*2005: ''New Origins'' — Neil Yates (Carnyx Records)
Other appearances
*2006: ''Manchester Road'' — John Thorne's Oedipus Complex (Surface to Air)
*2006: ''Echo Architect'' — Stuart McCallum (CD Baby)
*2005: ''The Other Side of Notting Hill'' — Cameron Pierre (Candid Productions)
*2005: ''Llanita'' — Almeida Girl & Descaga (Latin Jungle)
*2005: ''
The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
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All songs by Kate ...
'' —
Kate Rusby
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(Pure Records)
*2005: ''Wired'' —
Michael McGoldrick
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McGo ...
John McCusker
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(Pure Records)
*2004: ''If Not Now'' — e2K (
Topic Records
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)
*2003: ''My Thrawn Glory'' — James Grant (Vertical Records)
*2003: '' Heartlands'' — Kate Rusby (Pure Records)
*2003: '' Underneath the Stars'' — Kate Rusby (Pure Records)
*2003: ''Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year'' —
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
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Will Young
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Chris While
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& Julie Matthews (Fat Cat Records)
*2002: ''Migrations'' — Gary Crosby's Nu Troop (Dune)
*2002: '' 10'' — Kate Rusby (Pure Records)
*2002: ''Time To Fall'' —
Karen Matheson
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(Vertical Records)
*2002: ''Echoes'' —
Matt Bianco
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(Victor)
*2002: ''Slightly Askew'' — Chris Bowden (
Ninja Tune
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)
*2002: ''Sound Engine'' — Joe Broughton (Salenella Records)
*2001: ''Shift'' — e2K (Topic Records)
*2001: '' Curse of the Mekons'' —
The Mekons
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The band's style has evolved over time to incorporate aspects of ...
We Love the City
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Suggs
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(
Warner Bros. Records
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)
*1998: ''This Way Up'' —
Edward II
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(Ock Records)
*1998: ''World Go Round'' — Matt Bianco (JVC)
*1998: ''Stupid Stupid Stupid'' — Black Grape (MCA)
*1998: ''A/C Collection'' — Matt Bianco (JVC)
*1997: ''In It for the Money'' —
Supergrass
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(
Parlophone
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)
*1996: ''Cottoning On'' — National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO)
*1996: ''Two Step To Heaven'' — Edward II ( Cooking Vinyl)
*1996: ''Zest'' — Edward II (Ock Records)
*1995: ''In Control'' — National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO)
*1995: ''Close to You'' —
The Brand New Heavies
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(FFRR)
*1995: ''Gran Via'' — Matt Bianco (JVC)
*1995: ''Prawns'' — Big Cheese All-Stars (Big Cheese)
*1995: ''Pushing Against The Flow'' — Raw Stylus (Geffen)
*1994: ''Hallmark'' — National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO)
*1994: ''Car Sex'' — Annabella Lwin (
Sony
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)
*1992: ''Dashing Away'' — Edward II (Pure Bliss)
*1991: ''Wicked Men'' — Edward II (Pure Bliss)
*1990: ''Freedom and Rain'' —
Oyster Band
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&
June Tabor
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