Chatting with Mark Armstrong - trumpeter & artistic director of NYJO Watford Jazz Junction

This week we're talking with Mark Armstrong - trumpeter, composer, arranger and artistic director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
We discover all sorts from tales, from dusty old trumpet shops in to dodgy student band names, from fabulous young NYJO musicians to awesome players in the world's greatest bands - it's a musical big band treat!
Mark's album recommendations included:
Cookin' and Relaxin' (double disc) by Miles Davis (1958) on Prestige
Coming About by Maria Schneider (1996) on Enja
Plugged In and Live by Earth, Wind & Fire (1996) on Pyramid
Support the show!
You can help support the podcast and keep us ad free. Especially useful if you’d like to support the podcast and want to keep it ad free. Plus it makes Chris feel very happy indeed!
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewstead
Next episode
And just a reminder that our next episode won't come out now until March 2022. Plenty of time to catch-up with the back catalogue... :-)
Links
Keep up to date with NYJO here.
Keep up with Mark here.
Credits
Presenter: Chris Newstead
Theme: by SoundWorkLab, licensed through AudioJungle.
Recorded February 2022.