Mark Lockheart
Mark Lockheart is a multi-award-winning tenor sax player who first made his name working with seminal band Loose Tubes in the eighties, and whose mastery of modern jazz has kept him at the forefront of the music ever since. Co-founder of the universally regarded “The Perfect Houseplants” Mark has toured and recorded with Django Bates, Mike Gibbs, Mark Anthony Turnage and his own 11 piece “Scratch Band” as well as Seb Rochford’s highly acclaimed “Polar Bear”. A former Peter Whittingham Award winner, his album "Ellington In Anticipation" was the MOJO Album of the Year 2014 and to add further glitter to an already stellar CV in 2016 he was named Jazz FM’s “Instrumentalist of the Year”. Most recently Mark has completed a major jazz/orchestral work titled "Days on Earth" for jazz sextet and 30-piece orchestra, and in 2022 released his album 'Dreamers' on Edition Records. And if all that wasn't enough he is also a highly respected educator, writer and arranger. Tonight he is appearing with his quartet featuring the impressive pianist Alcyona Mick.
"Lockheart is a consummate saxophonist and an original and versatile composer" The Rough Guide to Jazz; “inspired and imaginative” The Times; “compelling” Guardian