Mari Wilson & The New Wilsations                                                             Richard Cottle - MD   Stuart Curtis - Sax                                                                    Tim Goodyer - Drums   James Nisbet - Guitar  Laurence Cottle - Bass           Lucy Potterton & Sara Beth Brimer Davey - Backing Vocals                             Dave Land - Trumpet & Flugel

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Nice one chaps!!.........you both sounded brilliant at the Proms.

Dave

John Gleeson launches a brilliant new book charting the 332 years history of the            Band of HM Coldstream Guards

(the world's oldest military band)

I'm proud to have served 7 years with the band as trumpet soloist before leaving in the early 80's for the BBC 'Come Dancing Orchestra' directed by Andy Ross.

"Great days serving in the British Forces alongside John - we have a few very funny stories which would not pass the censor control desk for this book!! - thank you for your kind words in your the book  John"

Dave

1st rehearsals in London along side the New York  MOVIN’ OUT  band and       Billy Joel's  Musical Director 2006

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Dave will be performing                  Mari Wilson's new album              'POP DELUX' PLUS                          Marc Almond 'live'            Shepards Bush 2017

London 'West End' Show - Orchestra personal 

Great to work with the Claire Barker Band

Pete, Matt and myself on the brass team!!

Recording session with Sotos at Ashwood Studios

Sax legend Martin Dobson (Eurythmics)

3 sampler tracks

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Book now available via Amazon £30

NORWICH SCHOOL PREPARES FOR HOSTRY FESTIVAL EVENTS

13 OCTOBER 2017

Preparations are in full swing as Norwich School prepares to host The Hostry Festival Classical Concert in the Blake Studio on Sunday evening, 7-9pm. The evening is a brand new event for the Hostry Festival which hopes to celebrate Norfolk’s young emerging musicians.

The Hostry Festival have partnered with Norfolk Music Hub and Norwich School to bring together the county’s top up and coming young performers of classical music. Norfolk’s next generation of musicians will be performing songs, piano, wind, strings and percussion, involving both original composition and much loved classical music. The guest of honour, and newly appointed concert patron, is Julian Lloyd Webber.

The evening begins with a trumpet fanfare written by Norwich School trumpet teacher Dave Land entitled ‘Cloister Fanfare’. This will be the premiere of the piece and includes Norwich School players India Riordan (L6B), Matthew James (L6B), Henry Lee (L6C), Shannon Lai (U6S) and Daniel Possener (M5S).Also performing from Norwich School are Alice Palmer (M5C), who will sing Antonio Caldara’s Sebben Crudele and Caitlin Obee (U6B) who plays George Enesco’s Cantabile et Presto on flute.

The event is the first of the two week programme of events held by the Hostry Festival, which includes The Norfolk Arts Awards where the Norwich School 2016 musical will be celebrated. Ms Ziegler and Mr Allain are nominated for the Dr Frank Bates Dance and Musical Theatre Award for their roles in the production of Sweeney Todd. The school is also delighted that Megan Blair (U6P) will be performing at the event having been invited following a performance at last year’s Blake Studio opening by festival co-founder and Artistic Director Stash Kirkbride. Megan will be one of the music acts featuring at the red carpet gala event on Friday 20th October at The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral.

Megan, as well as Director of Music Mr Allain took part in a BBC Radio Norfolk broadcast for the Hostry Festival last week, which you can listen to here.

  INCLUDING                              Castell Roc Festival:  

               Leo Sayer &                 Mari Wilson

It is one of the longest running musicals in West End history, with 7,408 performances; however, the Broadway production ran for only 761 performances. It is also the most popular musical show in Germany, where it has been performed continuously since 1988.

Ron Sayer Jr and Charlotte Joyce

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A real privilege to play trumpet & flugel on this wonderful album by Shena   Songs inspired by Whitney Houston Vol.1      produced by my good friend, the late Jim Winchester                   (Rest in peace mate x)

Dave's trumpet can be heard on at least 11    NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC    albums with: Katrina & the Waves, Nik Kershaw, Tracey Ullman, Starlight Express

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'Beat the Beat'     Mari, Laurence Cottle                            Dave (catching flies!!)

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Winner of 2003 Tony Award - Best Orchestrations - Billy Joel & Stuart Malina

Mari, Laurence & Stu

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Virgin boss                  Sir Richard Branson &

Dave

Redhornz & Sway Band       -       The Bah Hah Boys   (Who let the dogs out?)      -      Cuba Tropicana Orchestra

Two of Dave's 6th form  trumpet Students at Wymondham College - Norfolk  get a special chance to have a lesson with the world-renowned

trumpet soloist Håkan Hardenberger

​November 2017

Redhornz & Sway Virgin Atlantic Band

Tour of Cuba & Bahamas 2005

Rich Pardy & Ian Richards (sax) 

Dave Land (Trumpet)

PRESS 'PLAY' FOR TASTER TRACK

NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - NOW 5  - UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC
NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - 1983  - UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC
​NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - SUMMER ALBUM - UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC
​NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - NOW 9 - UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC
​NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - 80'S PARTY  - UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC
​NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - MUSICALS  - UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC
​NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - RUNNING 2014 - UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC
​​NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - RUNNING 2017 - UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC
​​NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - OFFICIAL WEDDING LIST - UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC
​​NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - MILLENNIUM SERIES 1984 - UNIVERSAL/SONY 
NOW  THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - MILLENNIUM SERIES 1985  - UNIVERSAL/SONY 

Leo Sayer - 'Everyone' from  Voice in my Head                   Paul 'Shilts' Weimar - Sax    Dave Land - Trumpet    plus    The City of Prague Philharmonic

I took this picture of the great KENNY BAKER having a early morning sleep at Madrid airport - late 1980's tour with Peter Skellern. Kenny was featured soloist for the concerts -late finish!!

Also in the picture is Dickie Bell (Guitar) and session French horn play - John Peniugie.

Dave Lord & Dave Land - trumpets

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The name of the series came from a poster Virgin boss Richard Branson found in a bric-a-brac shop on Portobello Road, depicting a singing chicken and a pig exclaiming "Now that’s what I call music!".

Branson gave the poster to Virgin Records Co-Founder Simon Draper, and a couple of years later they thought the wise words of the porker could be a great slogan for the compilation idea they had come up with.

It could also explain why the latest version has a pig wearing sunglasses on its front cover.

Interestingly enough, Branson went on to marry the owner of the shop.

Number ones

Now albums have spent 654 weeks at number one, and the average household owns four volumes.

Of the 99 past albums, 98 have all gone to number one in the charts.

The artists

Some 2,100 artists have been featured on the records, and if you were to listen to all the albums back-to-back it would take you more than 250 hours, or 10.5 days.

The spin-offs

There have been a number of spin-off albums such as Now Classic Soul, and Now Christmas which is the seventh-best-selling album of all time in Britain, selling 4.5 million copies and rising!!.

sample of new album - due for release later this year

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Clive Hitchcock - Sax

Dave Land - Trumpet

Looking forward to working with Leo & Mari again this summer 

Ross Mitchell Orchestra - Russia

(The Moscow Autumn Cup 2017 - Pro Ball Room Dance Championships)

Live TV Video Broadcast - Moscow

Mari Wilson Band:

Richard Cottle - Keys & Musical Director

Laurence Cottle - Bass

Dave Holmes - Gtr

Tim Goodyer - Dms

Joanna Goldsmith (BV's)

Sara Davey (BV's)

Stu Curtis (Sax)

Dave Land (Tpt)

Breathe -'In Concert' ITV '              Live Television Broadcast 1989 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 David Glasper - lead vocals  Marcus Lillington - Guitar  Ian 'Spike' Spice - Drums

                                                                                                                             plus: Graham Edwards - Bass (Go West)

Ian Hoare (Everyone!)& Molly.......... - BV's     Mike ......... - Keys (Seal)                    Dave Land - Trumpet & Flugel                                                                Paul 'Shilts' Weimar  - Sax 

Paul Weimar, under the stage name “Shilts”, hails from London and lived in L.A. for the last ten years. His 30 year career has spanned all forms of jazz, funk, soul and pop music, and he has toured all over the world and recorded with a host of international artists such as David Bowie, Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies, Jimmy Paige, Bill Wyman, and Dina Carroll.  Shilts was the bandleader and front-man of the British urban jazz funk export, “Down To The Bone” which enjoyed massive success in the United States.  This group released 7 albums on which Paul was heavily featured, both as a player and as a writer.  Now with 5 solo albums released, he is considered one of the world’s most successful Jazz Funk artists of this century. Shilts will perform at Festival Jazz Roja in 2018.

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     DAVE   LAND  Freelance Musician 

Balfour Castle -Shapinsay -Orkney Islands

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NEW CD 

fet: Dave Land & Martin Dobson - Horns

Two of Dave's former students are members of the NYJO trumpet section: George Jefford & Harry Evans.                                                                                                                                                       The National Youth Jazz Orchestra will be performing as part of the BBC Proms Festival 2018!

Join us for our late night prom on Thursday 16 August 2018, where we will be presenting a mixed programme of old and new; the original band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (performed with NYJO alumnus Guy Barker MBE and special guest soloist Benjamin Grosvenor), and the Stan Kenton Orchestra’s highly acclaimed but rarely performed big-band version of West Side Story, alongside a brand new composition by NYJO alumnus and Mercury Award nominee Laura Jurd.

Dave can be heard playing trumpet on the 'Main Street' walkway  at Disneyland Paris via the Disneyland music radio  'loop' playlist.

They are currently playing an album recorded by Chandos records featuring Dave's trumpet playing.

Archive video footage of  Dave with  80's Pop Sensations

                          'Breathe'

Great to do 2 tours back in the 1980's with 'Shilts' on saxaphone!!

We were support band for part of 'Heaven on Earth' World tour                     Belinder Carlisle

Check out some 'live' performances with Dave playing trumpet with 'Breathe' FRONT PAGE OF WEBSITE   'showreel'

Bless the Bride

​Sadler's Wells Theatre

Starring: Ruth Madoc & Una Stubbs

1987

Original London Cast

 Musical Director: Grant Hossack

Assistant Music Director / Keyboards: Bobby Purvis

Bass: Dennis Bowden

Percussion: David Hulley

Woodwinds: Andy Barnwell, Colin Courtney, Andy Panayi

Trumpets: Andy Mitchell,  Dave Land

Trombone: Mark Graham

Horn: Simon Morgan

Harp:  Julie Allis

Violins: Michael Rennie*, Ruth Dawson, Martin Gill, Rosalyn Lishak, John Mayer

Cello: Myrtle Bruce Mitford

Mick Wilson (10cc) 

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Aleks Jenner with Håkan Hardenberger

Helena Jessie                                                              Redhornz 

Brass arrangements - Dave Land

                                               Chepstow Castle Concert with    Leo Sayer  &  Mari Wilson

 Leo looking great at 70!!!

Richard Pardy - Tenor/Bari Sax

Dave Land - Trumpet

Dave & Mike Innes (Trombone) session for Victoria Swarovski

Studio 2 - Abbey Road Studio

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"It's been a privilege and lots of fun working with Paul over the years, from sessions to gigs - he is 'awesom'!!"

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Trumpet 

              Flugelhorn​

                             Instrumental Tuition

Dave will be busy this summer playing trumpet with lots of the 80's pop artists including Leo Sayer, Mari Wilson, Mark Almond, Motown show 

'Get Ready'

Starlight Express Tony Awards 

Year Category Show
1987 Best Choreography Starlight Express
1987 Best Costume Design Starlight Express
1987 Best Direction of a Musical Starlight Express
1987 Best Lighting Design Starlight Express
1987 Best Musical Starlight Express
1987 Best Musical Starlight Express
1987 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Starlight Express
1987 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Starlight Express
1987 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Starlight Express

She said making it big in Britain involves finding the right song. "I was not in the studio a lot last year, but this year I'm in a lot," she said. She recently recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios, made famous by The Beatles, and has a song on the way.

 
 

The soundtrack to school discos, the cementing in history of one-hit wonders, and the go-to for catchy pop songs, Now That's What I Call Music! has reached its 100th milestone.

Since 1983 Now albums have been released at a rate of three-a-year and a total of 120 million copies have been sold world-wide.

Their playlists have spent 654 weeks at number one, and the average household owns four volumes.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Starring Suzi Quatro

1986

Original London Cast

 Musical Director: Grant Hossack

Assistant Music Director / Keyboards: Bobby Purvis

Bass: Dennis Bowden

Percussion: David Hulley

Woodwinds: Andy Barnwell, Colin Courtney, Andy Panayi

Trumpets: Andy Mitchell,  David Land

Trombone: Mark Graham

Horn: Fred Crossman

Violins: Michael Rennie*, Ruth Dawson, Martin Gill, Rosalyn Lishak, John Mayer

Cello: Myrtle Bruce Mitford

STARLIGHT EXPRESS

1984 – 2002

Apollo Victoria Theatre

 

(confirmed November 2001)

Musical Director: Neil Cleary

Keys 1 / Harmonica / Assistant Musical Director: Peter Hagen

Keys 2: Roy Moore

Keys 3: Ken Poole

Keys 4: Andy Read

Drums: Tom Nichol

Percussion: Roger Harrison

Guitar: Nick Pearson

Guitar: Vic Saville

Bass Guitar: John Mole

Trumpet 1: Graham Russell

Trumpet 2: Dave Land

Trumpet 3: Andy Gibson

Horn: Julie Lord

Trombone 1: Martin Kelly

Trombone 2: Roger Williams

Tenor Saxophone / Flute / Piccolo: Peter Ripper

MOVIN’ OUT

2006

Apollo Victoria Theatre

 

Musical Director / Lead Guitar:                          Dennis Delgaudio (Broadway MD)

Lead Vocals / Pianoman: James Fox, Darren Reeves

Synthesiser: Michael Martin

Drums: Jerry Brown

Guitar: Joseph Ross

Bass Guitar: Velroy Bailey

Trumpet: Adam Linsley

Trumpet / Flugelhorn: Dave Land (rehearsals only)

Trombone: Andy Crompton

Saxophones: Ian Richards

Saxophone / Percussion / Backing Vocals:                      Richard Pardy

 

 

Love this jazzy version of "Walking on Sunshine"

SOUND TRACK TO 'BIG HAIR' SHORT FILM

SONIC STUDIOS - COMPOSER JAMES ROGERS

TRUMPET - DAVE LAND

Matt Thompson with Håkan Hardenberger

Breathe  The album   'All That Jazz'  contained the group's two best-known hits, "Hands to Heaven" and "How Can I Fall?".              The former charted at No. 2 in 1988