JAN ZAWADA - TRUMPET

Jan is the trumpet player in the band, highly experienced in studio, live broadcast and TV show work. Over the past 38 years as a professional trumpet player he has worked with various TV, radio and live West End productions including Les Miserables, Starlight Express and South Pacific. He has played alongside many personalities such as Petula Clarke, Freddie Starr, The Three Degrees, Michael Parkinson, Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Clive James and Michael Barrymore. Having travelled extensively, he has performed at major venues all around the world including concerts with the Royal Philharmonic and BBC Concert Orchestra, and the Rio de Janeiro Radio Orchestra. Jan has a BMus (Hons) Degree and Dip (HE) Music from the University of Portsmouth and is a member of the British Music Writers Council. He specialises in Big Band arrangements, a genre in which he enjoys the challenge of extreme register playing as a lead trumpet player. Influences include Maynard Ferguson, Tower of Power, and Blood Sweat & Tears.

Jan plays a hand-made Chicago Custom trumpet designed by Andy Taylor. This is the big boy of the Chicago range. Massive big, dark sound. Capable of tremendous volume and extreme subtlety as well. Blow it hard and the sound just gets bigger and bigger, never really introducing much cut. It just gets louder and louder. There is no shut off point either. It will just keep increasing in volume 'til you physically can't give it any more air, but it also has a softer side. A warmth of sound at lower volumes that other trumpets so rarely possess. This makes it one of the most expressive and lyrical trumpets you could ever play.

Jan's Flugelhorn: Jan plays The fabulous Taylor 'Phat Boy' Flugel. New Phatter bell taper. New sublime sexy shape. Heavy gauge all copper bell and branch. In all this adds up to an extremely sensuous sounding horn.

Jan is also very tall. For more information about Jan visit his website at http://www.trumpet1.com