Mark Lockheart

Mark Lockheart (born Lymington, 1961) is a British jazz tenor saxophonist who came to prominence as a member of the Loose Tubes big band during the 1980s.^[1]

Subsequently he played with Django Bates^[2] as well as in the group Perfect Houseplants featuring Dudley Phillips & Martin France.^[3]

In 2001 the Arts Council of England awarded a grant for a tour by his Scratch Band who recorded an album "Imaginary Dances".^[4] More recently his compositions have been recorded with the NDR Big Band.^[5][6]

He has also played in sessions with Radiohead, Prefab Sprout, Stereolab and many others. Lockheart currently teaches at Trinity College of Music in London and at Middlesex University.^[2] and is a tutor for the National Youth Jazz Collective. He also plays in British jazz quintet Polar Bear.^[1][7]

Discography

As leader

• "Days Like These" (2010)
• "In Deep" (2009)
• Through Rose Coloured Glasses (1998)
• Matheran (1999) with John Parricelli
• Imaginary Dances (2002)
• Moving Air (2005)

As sideman

With Loose Tubes

• Loose Tubes (1985)
• Delightful Precipice (1986)
• Open Letter (1988)

With Billy Jenkins

• Aural Art Exhibition (1987)
• Surburbia (1999)

With June Tabor

• Some Other Time (1989)
• Angel Tiger (1992)
• Against The Streams (1994)
• Aleyn (1997)
• A Quiet Eye (1999)

With Django Bates

• Summer Fruits (and Unrest) (1993)
• Winter Truce (and Homes Blaze) (1995)

With Perfect Houseplants

• Perfect Houseplants (1993)
• Clec (1995)
• Snap Clatter (1997)
• Extempore (1998) with The Orlando Consort
• Extempore II (1999) with The Orlando Consort
• New Folk Songs (2000)

With Huw Warren

• Barrel Organ Far from Home (1997)
• Hundreds Of Things a Boy Can Make (1997)
• God Only Knows (2005)

With Polar Bear

• "Peepers" (2010)
• "Polar Bear" (2008)
• Held On The Tips of Fingers (2007)
• Dim Lit (2005)

With others

• Prefab Sprout, Steve McQueen (1985)
• Steve Berry Trio, Steve Berry Trio (1988)
• Jah Wobble, Rising Above Bedlam (1991)
• Stereolab, Fluoresences (1996)
• High Llamas, Hawaii (1996)
• Geoff Gascoyne, Voices of Spring (1996)
• Sin e, Deep Water Dropoff (1999)
• Roger Beaujolais, For Old Times (1999)
• Radiohead, Kid A (2000)
• John Parricelli, Alba (2000)
• The Works, Beware Of The Dog (2005)
• Disassembler, Disassembler (2005)
• Curious Paradise, English Elements Live (2005)

References

External links

• Mark Lockheart's website