The Ridouts - Mark, Alex (bbc Young Musician Of The Year) & Tom at 606 Club

Well, this is a fun gig! The band tonight will feature two generations of great jazz musicians, father Mark Ridout on guitar along with his Award-winning children, son Tom on sax and recorder and daughter Alex on trumpet. A busy professional musician, Mark Ridout has performed in many of the country's major venues and his fluent and muscular playing has been heard with the likes of Jimmy Smith, Babara Dennerlein, Tony Martin, Natalie Cole and Jane Monheit. He also includes numerous studio sessions for both and jazz and popular music artists, has performed on 'Strictly Come Dancing' and with Alison Moyet on the 'Lesley Garrett show' and can be regularly heard with the BBC Big Band...

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Well, this is a fun gig! The band tonight will feature two generations of great jazz musicians, father Mark Ridout on guitar along with his Award-winning children, son Tom on sax and recorder and daughter Alex on trumpet. A busy professional musician, Mark Ridout has performed in many of the country's major venues and his fluent and muscular playing has been heard with the likes of Jimmy Smith, Babara Dennerlein, Tony Martin, Natalie Cole and Jane Monheit. He also includes numerous studio sessions for both and jazz and popular music artists, has performed on 'Strictly Come Dancing' and with Alison Moyet on the 'Lesley Garrett show' and can be regularly heard with the BBC Big Band. As an educationalist his credits are equally impressive, including teaching work on both the Wavenden Jazz and Loire Summer schools amongst many others. Tom Ridout is in his final year studying jazz saxophone at the Royal Academy of Music where he has been awarded the prestigious Richard Turner Jazz Prize. He is a member of NYJO, was a finalist in the BBC

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