Neil Yates

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Neil Yates

Background information
Born 1970
Stockport, Manchester, England, UK
Genre(s) Jazz, Folk
Occupation(s) Performer, Bandleader, Composer, Educator
Instrument(s) Trumpet, Tin Whistle
Years active 1998 - Present
Associated acts New Origins
Website neilyates.co.uk

Neil Yates[1] (Born in Stockport, Manchester 1970) is a British Jazz and Folk Musician.

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[edit] Biography

Yates Studied music at Salford University before moving to London to study jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Neil lived and worked in London for eight years playing jazz with National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Peter King, Don Weller, Denys Baptiste, Jazz Jamaica All Stars, Alex Wilson, Clark Tracey, Gary Crosby’s Nu-Troop and the Caroline Taylor Quintet. During this time Yates also worked as session musician for Brand New Heavies, Supergrass, Black Grape, Lighthouse Family, Alison Moyet, Will Young, Raw Stylus, Suggs, Matt Bianco, Robbie Williams and Rhian Benson.

Neil 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, before moving out to the coast of North Wales coast to play and write, and to study Celtic music. During this time Yates was playing and recording with folk musicians such as Michael McGoldrick, Kate Rusby, John McCusker, Karen Matheson (Caperceille) and Jon Jo Kellie. 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, Irish melodies and rhythms from Ghana (West Africa). It was with this group that Yates secured a 2-album deal with the London based independent record lable Topic Records[2].

Yates was a featured soloist in the Manchester Jazz Festival 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"[3], on Yates' own label: Carnyx Records.

Yates currently lectures in jazz trumpet and improvisation at Leeds College of Music, Salford University and the Birmingham Conservatoire.


[edit] Discography

[edit] As a leader

  • 2005: New Origins — Neil Yates (Carnyx Records)

[edit] Other Appearances


[edit] References

  1. ^ Neil Yates - Bio
  2. ^ Topic Records - e2k
  3. ^ Manchester Evening News - Review of "New Origins"
  4. ^ Neil Yates Disc


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