My New CD and Group

I have a new CD coming out in May which I'm really excited about. Its all new music and a bit of a departure for me played by an amazing line-up of musicians ,Liam Noble is on piano, Jasper Hoiby, bass, Dave Smith (OutHouse etc) on drums and Dave Priseman on trumpet. The album will be coming out in May 2009 on the Edition label, special launch night at the Pizza Express, Dean Street, London on May 26th, please come along!

You can hear a couple of the tracks on www.myspace.com/marklockheart

Polar Bear

We are touring in April with the Dirty Projectors, see the dates page for details of all gigs or www.polarbearmusic.com

itunes

I'm pleased to announce that tracks from two of my albums, Moving Air and Imaginary Dances are available from the itunes store for 79p a track. More albums to follow, to download go to www.apple.com/itunes.store and put search in for mark lockheart.

NDR Big Band audio

I've just put up some MP3s of some of the big band music I did in Germany with the NDR big band.
Go to the audio clips page.
An album of this music is finally coming out in November on the fuzzymoon record label, watch this space for details. The NDR features many great soloists including Christof Lauer, Lutz Buchner, Joe Gallardo, Ingolf Burkhardt, Marcio Doctor and Claus Stötter. Also featured on drums is Britain's fantastic Nic France.