Mark Buckingham

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"My tutors were Ronald Tench and Gil Hulme both from the Southampton area from 1960 onwards. My teaching was always jazz inspired though I was trained to sight read which became a speciality in later years. Artie Shaw's clarinet concerto was the first concerto I learnt.

The saxophone became important from the age of 14 onwards and I regularly played in big bands rather than doing my school work. I tend to avoid big band playing now because the art of the big band which is all about dynamics, control and beauty, most bands I hear are just loud and everybody playing high notes, missing the point totally.

Since school days I have played in every setting possible. I now concentrate on the work of Grunt Productions and MB publications. My clarinet playing has taken me into a new sound world, which is fully catalogued on CD and explained on various pages throughout the MB publications site.

Since I was 18 I have taught. This has been my main area of employment for many years. During that time I developed a technique to teach people to improvise which is now in book form." - MB

Listen to Marks Clarinet playing on mp3 (Sacred site improvisation)

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buckingham@gruntproductions.com

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