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Shanti Paul Jayasinha

Paul studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was featured soloist with Kenny Wheeler on the CD "Walk Softly". In the 80s paul toured with Tim Garland's "Points on the Curve" band, played with the Guildhall big band at Ronnie Scott's with Randy Brecker, played with Jason Rebello, Cleveland Watkiss and Courtney Pine, and discovered Afro-Cuban music with Roberto Pla. At the start of the 90s he also played trumpet with the Brand New Heavies, joined Mike Westbrook's big band, John Mayer's Indo-Jazz Fusions and Lindsay Cooper's "Sahara Dust" and toured with them in Europe. He became heavily involved in Latin and Brazilian music, playing with almost all the bands on the scene, including a nationwide tour with 'sexteto Cafe", a long association with Roberto Pla and with Conjunto Sabroso, for whom he became MD and sometime arranger, also backing many visiting artists from Puerto Rico and the USA in the UK and Europe

For The Dreamers

By Simon Lasky

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Outsiders; Everyday Hero; Human Nature; Half A World Away; Closer To The Sky; Bye Bye Blackbird; Tampa Strut; One Day I'll Fly Away.

Everyday Hero

April 1, 2024

Album: For The Dreamers
By Simon Lasky
Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Duration: 06:41

John Crawford: Times and Tides

by Mark Sullivan
October 28, 2016

For his second album British pianist/composer John Crawford continues his love of Latin American and Spanish flamenco music, while also incorporating fresh new influences. Crawford's opening original “Blurred" shares a Brazilian heritage with the cover of Antonio Carlos Jobim's “Once I Loved" that follows it. Guitarist Guillermo Hill makes an immediate impression on nylon-string guitar: he's ...

Grand Union Orchestra: Music and Movement

by Duncan Heining
April 3, 2012

In March, 2012, The Grand Union Orchestra, one of the jazz world's finest and most ambitious ensembles, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. Maybe you haven't heard of the band yet but if you have the chances are you'll revel in its kaleidoscopic blending of jazz and music from across the planet. Though based in the East End ...

Jubilee Jazz 2012: Music to make Horace Walpole Spin?

February 29, 2012

He loved to entertain. He loved the quirky. He loved the arts and left us a little Gothic house at Strawberry Hill, whose very existence pretty much sums him up on its own. He used this lovely little treasure to indulge and share what he loved with his friends. With entertainment at the heart and core ...

Round Trip

By Shanti Paul Jayasinha

Label: Candid Records
Released: 2007

Trumpeter Shanti Paul Jayasinha at Candid Jazz Fest - Soho, London

by John Philips
November 20, 2007

Shanti Paul Jayasinha Candid Jazz Festival PizzaExpress Jazz Club, Soho London, England November 1, 2007 Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Candid Jazz Festival has always showcased fine new talents from the label's roster, and this year saw trumpeter Shanti Paul Jayasinha on the list of recording ...