The Brubeck/Desmond Experience
The Buckingham & Donald Quartet
Entry Requirements: Under 16s are not permitted in the venue. Under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times.
The Brubeck/Desmond Experience - Capturing the ‘cool classic’ sound of the great 'Brubeck Quartet'
The Buckingham/Donald Quartet performing the incredible tunes from ‘Time Out’, ‘Time Further Out’ albums, plus many other great tunes written by Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck.
Tom Donald-piano Mark Buckingham-clarinet/saxes Theo Buckingham-drums Wun Chan-double bass
Line Up
The Buckingham & Donald Quartet
Tom Donald - piano Mark Buckingham - clarinets and saxes Theo Buckingham - drums Plus double bass Buckingham/Donald Quartet was formed in 2011. Despite their great successes playing together for a decade in South London fringe venues such as Cafe Cairo, Putney Arts Centre and The Half Moon Putney they decided to record a project of their most daring and explicit compositions.
The music has influences ranging from Prokofiev, Stravinsky to Ornette Coleman, Loose Tubes and Art Tatum, most of the compositions are by Buckingham who's experimental compositions on the bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet are largely unheard of in modern jazz music and worth the price of admission alone.
Tom Donald is an award winning film composer and piano virtuoso often performing complete concerts cycles of improvisation. Recently his compositions for film have won acclaim throughout Europe and The Middle East, including Haider Rashid's” The Deep” and Koutiba Al-Janabi's "Leaving Baghdad" in which he invited Buckingham to play Bass Clarinet.
Both Mark and Theo Buckingham are no strangers to the Bulls Head concert schedule performing multiple sellout concerts as part of the 'Groove Warriors", the Buckingham/Donald quartet reveals their more zesty compositional output.
Mark Buckingham and Tom Donald are both renowned local figures in music education. Buckingham is the author of "improvising the blues" a no nonsense guide to playing jazz on any woodwind instrument. Additionally, Donald's school of piano in Mayfair attracts students worldwide who travel to see his seminars on piano improvisation. Theo Buckingham is a sought-after drums and percussion teacher based at the Ritz in Richmond, running weekly workshops.
Due to the large local student and musical following of these musicians, we highly recommend early booking to the magical evening.
