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Mark Huggett

Has toured as a drummer extensively in Europe and South Africa. Has also made many TV and radio appearances. Live performance include with Jean Toussiant, Jason Rebello and Annie Whiteheads Quartet and Prince Buster Has produced several albums including the South African Music Awards nominated and critically acclaimed “ Max Roach Park” Set up the Independent Record label Jazz Direct Also works in Music and Art education teaching drums, Art History and Digital Photography at the City Lit, CALAT and with The Annie Whitehead World Jazz Big Band Workshop Works extensively as a live session drummer in London, regularly playing Jazz, Rock Blues, Ska and World Music.

Swing a la mode

By Benoit Viellefon

Label: JohnJohn Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: It's only a papermoon; Daphné; All of me; Sous le ciel de Paris; Swing 42; Flambée Montalbanaise; Le carnaval; Pennies from heaven; Sweet Sue (just you).

Field of Hope

By Mark Huggett

Label: Jazz Direct Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Mindaë; Tribute to Andy Goldsworthy; Durbanite; Drakensberg; Midnight Carjack; Mbeki's Lament; Bunny Chow; Skipping Along the Fence; The March of Time; Field of Hope; Fortieth; Romero; Up High.

Wilson Huggett Project: Field of Hope

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
November 21, 2011

Five years after Max Roach Park (Jazz Direct, 2006), UK/South African bassist Dan Wilson and drummer Mark Huggett return with a multinational, multidimensional offering that continues and improves upon the strong suits of their earlier disc.On the one hand, there is a focus on establishing moods, often undergirded by deep and pleasing grooves; this ...

Textural Jazz

by Mark Huggett
August 28, 2011

Artistic and sensitive jazz. TrackNameTimeArtistAlbum1Toledo7:32Avishai CohenAt Home2Folk Song For Rosie8:41Paul Motian TrioAt The Village Vanguard3Loving Without Asking8:0Brian BladeBrian Blade Fellowship4Common Fields8:38Wolfert Brederode QuartetCurrents5Scarabee5:53Wolfert Brederode QuartetCurrents6Oddfelt7:56AlasnoaxisDogs Of Great Indifference7Harmsoft1:37AlasnoaxisDogs Of Great Indifference8Sand9:18Enrico RavaEasy Living9Continuum4:28Jaco PastoriusInvitation10New York 20072:46Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal MiskiewiczJanuary11Believe Beleft Below4:51Esbjörn Svensson TrioSeven Days Of Falling12Merciful 21:13Nils Petter MolværSolid Ether13A-i-a9:43Barre PhillipsThree ...

Tribute to Andy Goldsworthy

June 29, 2011

Album: Field of Hope
By Mark Huggett
Label: Jazz Direct Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 6:35

James Tartaglia's Free Funk Assembly: Dark Metaphysic

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 14, 2009

Thanks, as ever, to Google, it's possible to say with near certainty that British saxophonist James Tartaglia, leader of this electric funk-jazz ensemble, is the same person as Keele University lecturer in philosophy James Tartaglia, which raises an interesting question: what is the link between philosophy and funk?This is not the first time the ...

Max Roach Park CD Nominated for Best Jazz CD of the Year at the South African Music Awards

April 29, 2008

Musketeer Records is best known for working with rock bands like Seether and Fevertree but The Dan Wilson Mark Huggett Project sent the label a CD that was too good to ignore. Max Roach Park is a fascinating World Music/Jazz album that has seen the record label dive into unfamiliar territory and surface smiling. The Dan ...

Max Roach Park

By Mark Huggett

Label: Jazz Direct Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Vuleka; Mr M.D.; Zuni; Fireweed; Mello; William Blake; The Forty Niner; Bells; Chesil; No Mans Land; Kenyon; Tau Ceti; A Greener Room; Pray.

Dan Wilson / Mark Huggett Project: Max Roach Park

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
October 28, 2006

Too few musical groups call themselves “projects"; perhaps they fear unwarranted comparison with the Alan Parsons Project (you know, “I Am The Eye In The Sky"). As indeed they should. Some groups nevertheless really are projects, which is to say, not necessarily long-term relationships but rather short to medium-term agglomerations of talent, with ...