Iain Ballamy is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 composer, soprano, alto and tenor saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

 player.

Career

Ballamy was schooled at 1975-80 George Abbot School

George Abbot School

George Abbot School is a large state secondary school with Arts College status in Burpham, north-east of the town of Guildford. The school is named after the 17th-century Archbishop of Canterbury George Abbot. Surrey County Cricket Club's Cricket Academy is located in the grounds of the school.The...

, Guildford. He then studied Musical Instrument Technology from 1980-1982 Merton College. He took piano lessons from age of 6 to 14.

He discovered saxophone in 1978 with three lessons and his first professional gig was in 1980. He played Ronnie Scotts as Iain Ballamy Quartet at age 20. He was a founding member of Loose Tubes

Loose Tubes

Loose Tubes was a British jazz big band/orchestra active during the mid-to-late 1980s. Critically and popularly acclaimed, the band was considered to bethe focal point of a 1980s renaissance in British jazz...

 in 1984. First recording with Billy Jenkins

Billy Jenkins

Billy Jenkins is an English blues guitarist, composer, and bandleader.Initially Jenkins became famous as a member of Burlesque, then as part of Trimmer & Jenkins. A short period he followed as a member of Ginger Baker's Nutters. For several years, he ran Wood Wharf Studios...

 1985 and first solo album, Balloon Man, 1988.

During his career he has performed or recorded with a wide range of top musicians including Gil Evans

Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...

, Hermeto Pascoal

Hermeto Pascoal

Hermeto Pascoal is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil. Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music, known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a record producer and...

, New York Composers Orchestra, Carla Bley

Carla Bley

Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...

, Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman was an American jazz saxophonist, known for performing free jazz as a bandleader, and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett....

, George Coleman

George Coleman

George Edward Coleman is an American hard bop saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.-Biography:...

, London Sinfonietta

London Sinfonietta

The London Sinfonietta is an English chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble specialises in contemporary music and works across a wide range of genres, performing modern classics alongside world premieres, and includes music by electronica artists as well as folk and...

, Françios Jeanneau, Daniel Humair

Daniel Humair

Daniel Humair is a drummer, jazz composer and painter.He is widely renowned and became Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1986.He has played with many jazz performers notably Martial Solal, Gerry Mulligan and Eric Dolphy....

, Mike Gibbs, Randy Weston

Randy Weston

Randy Weston , is an American jazz pianist and composer, of Jamaican parentage.-Biography:Weston studied classical piano as a child. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he ran a restaurant that was frequented by many of the leading bebop musicians...

, Karnataka College of Percussion

Karnataka College of Percussion

The Karnataka College of Percussion is a music school in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, which is dedicated to the teaching of the Carnatic percussion and vocal music of South India. It was founded in approximately 1964 by the mridangam player T. A. S...

, Sax Assault, Jazz Train, Freebop, Nishat Khan

Nishat Khan

Nishat Khan is an Indian sitar player and son of surbahar player Imrat Khan.Khan was born in the mid-1960s in Kolkata. He performed with musicians of the genres jazz, Gregorian chant, flamenco and Western classical music. In August 2002, Khan performed for the Diet of Japan in Tokyo and played in...

, R.A.Ramamani, T.A.S. Mani, Clare Martin, Human Chain

Human Chain

Human Chain is a British jazz quartet led by composer and keyboard virtuoso Django Bates. The band has been Bates’s main musical outlet since 1990 and has performed on most of his albums....

, Dr. L. Subramaniam, Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson is an English singer-songwriter, bassist and radio presenter, better known for the hits "Glad to Be Gay", "2-4-6-8 Motorway", and "Don't Take No for an Answer", with his Tom Robinson Band...

, Charlie Watts

Charlie Watts

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder.-Early life:...

 Orchestra, Jeremy Stacey

Jeremy Stacey

Jeremy Stacey is a British drummer. His early work included the 1990s band, The Lemon Trees and Denzil...

, Randy Weston

Randy Weston

Randy Weston , is an American jazz pianist and composer, of Jamaican parentage.-Biography:Weston studied classical piano as a child. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he ran a restaurant that was frequented by many of the leading bebop musicians...

, Joanna MacGregor

Joanna MacGregor

Joanna MacGregor is a classical, jazz and contemporary pianist.-Biography:MacGregor grew up in North London, and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal...

, Delightful Precipice

Delightful Precipice

Delightful Precipice is a 19-piece British jazz big band/orchestra led by Django Bates.Delightful Precipice contains many individual solo artists, music educators and bandleaders as ensemble members, including Julian Arguelles, Iain Ballamy, Eddie Parker, Steve Buckley, Mark Lockheart, Barak...

, Django Bates

Django Bates

Django Bates , is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra.-Career:Django Bates was born in Beckenham,...

, Mark Wingfield

Mark Wingfield

Mark Wingfield is a guitarist and composer based in the UK.Most of his output is rooted in jazz, but he is also active in contemporary classical music....

, Jane Chapman, Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

, Everything But The Girl

Everything but the Girl

Everything but the Girl was a two-person English band, formed in Hull during 1981, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt . They are currently inactive although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may reform someday...

, Food for Quartet, Loose Tubes

Loose Tubes

Loose Tubes was a British jazz big band/orchestra active during the mid-to-late 1980s. Critically and popularly acclaimed, the band was considered to bethe focal point of a 1980s renaissance in British jazz...

, Oxcentrics

Oxcentrics

The Oxcentrics were a Dixieland jazz band founded in 1975 at Oxford University. The band's name was derived from The Oxontrics, an original 1920s jazz band. Several members were from University College, where many of the rehearsals took place. They played at a number of Oxford Balls, for the...

, Ian Shaw

Ian Shaw (singer)

Ian Shaw is a Welsh jazz singer, record producer, and former stand up comedian.Shaw was born at St. Asaph, Wales, and his career in performance began on the Alternative Cabaret Circuit, alongside such performers as Julian Clary, Rory Bremner and Jo Brand.In his music career he has recorded and...

, Slim Gaillard

Slim Gaillard

Bulee "Slim" Gaillard was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called "Vout"...

, Ultramarine

Ultramarine

Ultramarine is a blue pigment consisting primarily of a double silicate of aluminium and sodium with some sulfides or sulfates, and occurring in nature as a proximate component of lapis lazuli...

, Ashley Slater

Ashley Slater

Ashley Slater is a UK based trombone player and best known for his work with Norman Cook in the band Freak Power. He was born in Schefferville, Canada in 1961...

, Hungry Ants, Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.-Life and career:Ronnie Scott was born in Aldgate, east London, into a family of Russian Jewish descent on his father's side, and Portuguese antecedents on his mother's. Scott began playing in small jazz clubs at the age of...

, Gordon Beck

Gordon Beck

Gordon James Beck was an English jazz pianist.Beck was born in Brixton, London, and attended Pinner County Grammar School . He studied piano in his youth, but decided to go into a career as an engineering technical draughtsman...

, Britten Sinfonia

Britten Sinfonia

Britten Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra ensemble based in Cambridge, UK. It was created in 1992, following an initiative from Eastern Arts and a number of key figures including Nicholas Cleobury, who recognised the need for an orchestra in the East of England. It is a flexible ensemble composed of...

, and Gay Dad

Gay Dad

In 2001 the leading single from Transmission - "Now Always and Forever" - was released. It fell just short of the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. An extensive UK tour was followed by a limited edition single "Harder, Faster". The third single "Transmission" was released just before the album came...

.

In 1999, Ballamy founded the record label Feral Records in partnership with graphic artist and filmmaker Dave McKean

Dave McKean

David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....

.

In 2005 he composed the musical score for the movie MirrorMask

MirrorMask

Mirrormask is a 2005 fantasy film from Jim Henson Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and Destination Films. It stars Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee. It is designed and directed by Dave McKean, written by Neil Gaiman from a story they developed together...

. He will also compose the score for Luna, which is also directed by Dave Mckean.

Ballamy is an agony uncle for Jazz UK Magazine with his column "In the Saxophonists Chair".

As leader

• Balloon Man
  Balloon Man (album)
  Balloon Man is the debut album by English saxophonist Iain Ballamy, featuring Django Bates, Steve Watts and Martin France. It was released on the EG label in 1989...
  
   (1988)
• All Men Amen
  All Men Amen
  All Men Amen is the second album by English saxophonist Iain Ballamy, featuring Django Bates, Steve Watts and Martin France. It was released on the B&W label in 1995.Allmusic gives the album 4.5 out of 5 stars.-Track listing:...
  
   (1995)
• Acme (1995)
• Food (1996) - Food (1) with Thomas Stronen, Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen is a Norwegian trumpet player, renowned for his distinctive, flute-like sound on the trumpet, inspired by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute. He also sings; his unique wordless vocalising was central to Chiaroscuro, where he often sings in a soprano's range...
  
   and Mats Eilertsen
• Pepper Street Interludes (2000) with Stian Carstensen
  Stian Carstensen
  Stian Carstensen is a multi-instrument Norwegian musician.-Biography:Carstensen was born in Eidsvoll. He started as an accordion player at the age of 9. He first learned from his father, and later from a classical player which he attended for 4 years. During this time he played in Norwegian TV,...
  
  , Norma Winstone
  Norma Winstone
  Norma Ann Winstone MBE is a British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations....
  
  , Martin France
  Martin France
  Martin France is an English jazz drummer based in London. He has been the rhythmic backbone on more than 60 albums working with some of the world's finest musicians....
  
   and Matthew Sharpe
  Matthew Sharpe
  Matthew Sharpe is a U.S. novelist and short story writer.Born in New York City, but grew up in a small town in Connecticut.Sharpe graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio. Afterwards, he worked at US Magazine until he went back to school at Columbia University, where he pursued an MFA...
  
  
• Signal To Noise (2000), BBC Radio 3
  BBC Radio 3
  BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...
  
   Play Adaptation of the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
   and Dave McKean
  Dave McKean
  David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....
  
  
• Organic and GM Food (2001) - Food (2) with Thomas Stronen, Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen is a Norwegian trumpet player, renowned for his distinctive, flute-like sound on the trumpet, inspired by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute. He also sings; his unique wordless vocalising was central to Chiaroscuro, where he often sings in a soprano's range...
  
   and Mats Eilertsen
• Veggie (2002) with Thomas Stronen, Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen is a Norwegian trumpet player, renowned for his distinctive, flute-like sound on the trumpet, inspired by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute. He also sings; his unique wordless vocalising was central to Chiaroscuro, where he often sings in a soprano's range...
  
   and Mats Eilertsen
• The Little Radio (2004) with Stian Carstensen
  Stian Carstensen
  Stian Carstensen is a multi-instrument Norwegian musician.-Biography:Carstensen was born in Eidsvoll. He started as an accordion player at the age of 9. He first learned from his father, and later from a classical player which he attended for 4 years. During this time he played in Norwegian TV,...
  
  
• Last Supper (2004) - Food (3) with Thomas Stronen, Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen is a Norwegian trumpet player, renowned for his distinctive, flute-like sound on the trumpet, inspired by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute. He also sings; his unique wordless vocalising was central to Chiaroscuro, where he often sings in a soprano's range...
  
   and Mats Eilertsen
• Molecular Gastronomy (2007) with Thomas Stronen
• MirrorMask
  MirrorMask
  Mirrormask is a 2005 fantasy film from Jim Henson Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and Destination Films. It stars Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee. It is designed and directed by Dave McKean, written by Neil Gaiman from a story they developed together...
  
   (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2005)
• Anorak (2007)
• Quiet Inlet (2010) Food with Thomas Stronen, Nils Petter Molvaer and Christian Fennesz
  Christian Fennesz
  Christian Fennesz is an Austrian guitarist active in electronic music, often credited on albums simply as Fennesz....
  
  

As sideman

With Loose Tubes

Loose Tubes

Loose Tubes was a British jazz big band/orchestra active during the mid-to-late 1980s. Critically and popularly acclaimed, the band was considered to bethe focal point of a 1980s renaissance in British jazz...

• Loose Tubes
  Loose Tubes (album)
  Loose Tubes is the debut album by the English big band Loose Tubes, that was released on the Loose Tubes Limited record label as an LP in 1985...
  
   (1985)
• Delightful Precipice (1986)
• Open Letter
  Open Letter (Loose Tubes album)
  Open Letter is the third album by the English big band Loose Tubes, that was released on the EG label in 1988.Allmusic gives the album 3 out of 5 stars.-Track listing:# "Sweet Williams" – 8:54...
  
   (1988)
• JazzBühne Berlin'87 Vol.16 Loose Tubes

With Billy Jenkins

Billy Jenkins

Billy Jenkins is an English blues guitarist, composer, and bandleader.Initially Jenkins became famous as a member of Burlesque, then as part of Trimmer & Jenkins. A short period he followed as a member of Ginger Baker's Nutters. For several years, he ran Wood Wharf Studios...

• Greenwich (1985)
• Uncommerciality Vol 1 (1986)
• Scratches of Spain
  Scratches of Spain
  Scratches of Spain is an album by the English guitarist and bandleader Billy Jenkins, featuring the Voice of God Collective. It was released on the Babel Records label in 1987.-Track listing:# "Monkey Men" – 6:15# "Cuttlefish" – 6:09...
  
   (1987)
• Motorway At Night (1988)
• Jazz Cafe Concerts Vol 1 (1989)
• Jazz Cafe Concerts Vol 2 (1989)
• True Love Collection (1999)
• First Aural Art Exhibition (2006)

With Bill Bruford's Earthworks

Earthworks (band)

Bill Bruford's Earthworks was a British jazz band led by drummer Bill Bruford. The band recorded several albums for Editions EG, Discipline Global Mobile and Summerfold Records....

• Earthworks
  Earthworks (album)
  Earthworks is the debut album by Bill Bruford's Earthworks, a jazz band led by drummer Bill Bruford and featuring Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and Mick Hutton...
  
   (1987)
• Dig?
  Dig?
  Dig? is the second album by Bill Bruford's Earthworks, featuring Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and Tim Harries. It was released on EG Records in 1989....
  
   (1989)
• All Heaven Broke Loose
  All Heaven Broke Loose
  All Heaven Broke Loose is the third album by Bill Bruford's Earthworks, featuring Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and Tim Harries. It was released on EG Records in 1991....
  
   (1991)
• Stamping Ground
  Stamping Ground
  Stamping Ground is a live album by Bill Bruford's Earthworks, released on EG Records in 1994.The Allmusic review by Bill Meredith awards this album with 4.5 stars and states: "Bruford's chordal patterns sound practically symphonic amid his epic starts and stops — further proof of the originality of...
  
   (1994)
• Heavenly Bodies (1997)

With Django Bates

Django Bates

Django Bates , is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra.-Career:Django Bates was born in Beckenham,...

• Summer Fruits (and Unrest) (1993)
• Autumn Fires (and Green Shoots) (1994)
• Good Evening...Here is the News (1995)
• Winter Truce (and Homes Blaze) (1995)
• Like Life (1997)
• Quiet Nights (1998)
• You Live and Learn...(Apparently) (2004)

With Ian Shaw

Ian Shaw (singer)

Ian Shaw is a Welsh jazz singer, record producer, and former stand up comedian.Shaw was born at St. Asaph, Wales, and his career in performance began on the Alternative Cabaret Circuit, alongside such performers as Julian Clary, Rory Bremner and Jo Brand.In his music career he has recorded and...

• Ghostsongs
• Taking it to Hart
  Taking It to Hart
  Taking it to Hart is a 1996 studio album by Ian Shaw, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. -Track listing:#"I Wish I Were in Love Again" – 2:58#"Where or When" – 3:24#"Have You Met Miss Jones?" – 4:11...
  
  
• Famous Rainy Day
  Famous Rainy Day
  Famous Rainy Day is a 1995 studio album by Ian Shaw.Only 5,000 copies of Famous Rainy Day were printed, and the record company, EFZ Records went out of business shortly afterwards. The album is due to be re-released on Splashpoint Records in 2010....
  
  
• In a New York Minute
  In a New York Minute
  In a New York Minute is a 1999 studio album by Ian Shaw. -Track listing:#"In a New York Minute" – 4:12#"Standing in the Dark" – 5:22#"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" – 4:55...
  
  

With Ray Russell

Ray Russell

Ray Russell was an American writer of short stories, novels, and screenplays. In 1991 he received the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement....

• Childscape (1987)
• A Table Near The Band
• At Montreux Jazz Festival

With others

• Dominic Alldis
  Dominic Alldis
  Dominic Alldis is a jazz pianist, singer, orchestral conductor & arranger who straddles the worlds of jazz, classical music and New York cabaret...
  
  , Themes From French Cinema (2004)
• Mike Gibbs - By The Way
• Clarke Tracey - Stability
• The Hungry Ants, Hungry Ants
• John Donaldson
  John Donaldson
  John Wesley Donaldson was an American baseball pitcher in Pre-Negro league and Negro league baseball. He was born in Glasgow, Missouri.-Highlights:...
  
  , Ray Drummond
  Ray Drummond
  Ray Drummond is a jazz bassist and teacher. He also has an MBA from Stanford University, hence his linkage to the Stanford Jazz Workshop...
  
   and Victor Lewis
  Victor Lewis
  Victor Lewis is an American jazz drummer, a major force in the genre since the 1980s.-As leader:*1992: Family Portrait - with John Stubblefield, Edward Simon, Cecil McBee, Don Alias, Jumma Santos...
  
   - Meeting in Brooklyn
• Claire Martin
  Claire Martin (singer)
  Claire Martin, OBE is an English jazz singer, born in Wimbledon, South London, England.Claire Martin grew up in a house "full of music", and claims to have learned all of Judy Garland´s songs by the time she was 12...
  
   - Devil May Care
• Linda Sharrock
  Linda Sharrock
  Linda Sharrock is an American jazz singer....
  
   - Like A River,
• Mo Foster
  Mo Foster
  Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and rock bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer. In over 40 years as a musician Foster has played on and produced countless albums, singles, and film soundtracks...
  
   - Southern Reunion,
• John Stevens
  John Stevens
  John Stevens may refer to:In politics, law and public service:*John H. Stevens , built the first house west of the Mississippi in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota*John L. Stevens , U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Hawai'i...
  
   - Blue
• Tom Robinson
  Tom Robinson
  Tom Robinson is an English singer-songwriter, bassist and radio presenter, better known for the hits "Glad to Be Gay", "2-4-6-8 Motorway", and "Don't Take No for an Answer", with his Tom Robinson Band...
  
   - Hope and Glory
• Malaya Marutha
  Malaya Marutha
  Malaya Marutha is a 1986 Musical Kannada film starring Vishnuvardhan, Saritha and Madhavi in the lead roles . The film has been directed and written by Lalitha Ravi and produced by C. V. L Shastry under "Shastry Movies" production house. Vijaya Bhaskar has composed the soundtrack and the background...
  
   - Span the Globe
• Sax Assault - BANG
• Michiel Braam
  Michiel Braam
  Michiel Braam is a Dutch Jazz-Pianist and Composer.- Activities :He studied at the ArtEZ School of Music in Arnhem, where he currently is head of the Jazz & Pop dept...
  
   - Playing the Second Coolbook
• Dave McKean
  Dave McKean
  David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....
  
   and Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
   - BV Haast
• Louis Vidal - Vermeer
• Iva Bittova
  Iva Bittová
  Iva Bittová is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer and composer. She began her career as an actress in the mid 1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. She started recording in 1986 and by 1990 her unique vocal and...
  
   - Plaza
• Mark Wingfield
  Mark Wingfield
  Mark Wingfield is a guitarist and composer based in the UK.Most of his output is rooted in jazz, but he is also active in contemporary classical music....
  
   and Jane Chapman - Three Windows"

Compilations

• Music With No Name (1996) - All Men Amen (Ultramarine Remix)
• Melt 2000 Vol 2
• Plaza with Iva Bittova

Commissions

• 1995 Estuary English - Apollo Saxophone Quartet
• 1996 Mirror Signal Manouvre - Apollo Saxophone Quartet
• 1996 ACME - Commissioned by Birmingham Jazz
  Birmingham Jazz
  Birmingham Jazz is a voluntary, non-profit organisation responsible for promoting and commissioning some of the most exciting jazz and related contemporary music in the UK.- Organisation :Tony Dudley-Evans has been Chairman of Birmingham Jazz since 1992....
  
  
• 1997 Oblique - Commissioned by SAMPAD/Birmingham Jazz
• 1998 Four and a half minutes late Jane Chapman, Solo Harpsichord
• 1998 Walpurgis Night
  Walpurgis Night
  Walpurgis Night is a traditional spring festival on 30 April or 1 May in large parts of Central and Northern Europe. It is often celebrated with dancing and with bonfires. It is exactly six months from All Hallows' Eve.-Name:...
  
   Joanna MacGregor
  Joanna MacGregor
  Joanna MacGregor is a classical, jazz and contemporary pianist.-Biography:MacGregor grew up in North London, and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal...
  
   - Duet for Piano & Tenor Sax

Awards

• 1985 John Dankworth
  John Dankworth
  Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE , known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist...
  
   Cup, Best Soloist.
• 1995 BT British Jazz Award, Best Ensemble - Balloon Man.
• 2001 BBC Jazz Award for Innovation.

Group history

• Balloon Man 1983 - 1993
• Loose Tubes
  Loose Tubes
  Loose Tubes was a British jazz big band/orchestra active during the mid-to-late 1980s. Critically and popularly acclaimed, the band was considered to bethe focal point of a 1980s renaissance in British jazz...
  
   1984 - 1990
• Billy Jenkins
  Billy Jenkins
  Billy Jenkins is an English blues guitarist, composer, and bandleader.Initially Jenkins became famous as a member of Burlesque, then as part of Trimmer & Jenkins. A short period he followed as a member of Ginger Baker's Nutters. For several years, he ran Wood Wharf Studios...
  
   Voice of God 1985 to date
• Bill Bruford
  Bill Bruford
  William Scott "Bill" Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring...
  
  ’s Earthworks
  Earthworks (band)
  Bill Bruford's Earthworks was a British jazz band led by drummer Bill Bruford. The band recorded several albums for Editions EG, Discipline Global Mobile and Summerfold Records....
  
   1986 - 1992
• Django Bates
  Django Bates
  Django Bates , is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra.-Career:Django Bates was born in Beckenham,...
  
  ’ Human Chain
  Human Chain
  Human Chain is a British jazz quartet led by composer and keyboard virtuoso Django Bates. The band has been Bates’s main musical outlet since 1990 and has performed on most of his albums....
  
   and Delightful Precipice
  Delightful Precipice
  Delightful Precipice is a 19-piece British jazz big band/orchestra led by Django Bates.Delightful Precipice contains many individual solo artists, music educators and bandleaders as ensemble members, including Julian Arguelles, Iain Ballamy, Eddie Parker, Steve Buckley, Mark Lockheart, Barak...
  
   1992 to date
• Iain Ballamy’s ACME 1996 to date
• Food For Quartet 1997 to date
• Anorak 2001 to date
• The Little Radio 2003 to date

British Council tours

Romania 1985, Morocco 1995, China 1997, Senegal 1997, India 1996 and 1998, Lithuania 1998, and Colombia 1998.

Television

Jazz 606, Meltdown, The Tube, Bergerac, Illuminations, Stay Lucky, Right to Reply, Wogan, Ronnie Corbett Show.

Radio

• "CASHIER NUMBER 6 PLEASE" Documentary exploring the world of the ubiquitous automated voice - on railway stations, in the post office, on the phone and even around the home. With the music of Iain Ballamy & Ashley Slater
  Ashley Slater
  Ashley Slater is a UK based trombone player and best known for his work with Norman Cook in the band Freak Power. He was born in Schefferville, Canada in 1961...
  
  . Inc interviews. 23/05/2005

• Jazz on 3. Iain Ballamy and Stian Carstensen
  Stian Carstensen
  Stian Carstensen is a multi-instrument Norwegian musician.-Biography:Carstensen was born in Eidsvoll. He started as an accordion player at the age of 9. He first learned from his father, and later from a classical player which he attended for 4 years. During this time he played in Norwegian TV,...
  
   in session. 06/02/2004

• Late Junction. Iain Ballamy and Stian Carstensen
  Stian Carstensen
  Stian Carstensen is a multi-instrument Norwegian musician.-Biography:Carstensen was born in Eidsvoll. He started as an accordion player at the age of 9. He first learned from his father, and later from a classical player which he attended for 4 years. During this time he played in Norwegian TV,...
  
   play live in the studio. Radio Three 6/2/2004.

• Jazz Record Requests. Listeners' requests performed by Iain Ballamy, John Parricelli, Tim Harries and Ian Thomas. Live from the London Jazz Festival.

• Front Row. White Horses TV theme by Jackie Lee and its enduring appeal since 1968 discussed by Iain Ballamy, with clip [3.40] Date: 04/09/2003

• Between the Ears. Iain Ballamy improvises on the Drake song "It Was a Very Good Year". 29.12.02

• Jazz on 3. Howard Riley
  Howard Riley
  John Howard Riley is an English jazz pianist and composer.Riley began on piano at age six, and began playing jazz as early as age 13. He studied at the University of Wales , Indiana University in America under Dave Baker , and then at York University...
  
   and Iain Ballamy duo. 1.11.02

• Jazz on 3. Iain Ballamy plays original compositions with his group Cob at Ronnie Scott's 21.12.01

• Jazz on 3. Norma Winstone
  Norma Winstone
  Norma Ann Winstone MBE is a British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations....
  
   performs with John Parricelli
  John Parricelli
  John Parricelli is a jazz guitarist, appearing and recording mainly in the United Kingdom.Parricelli began his career as a guitarist in 1982 and was one of the founding members of the British big band Loose Tubes, with whom he recorded three albums...
  
   and Iain Ballamy. 4.3.00

• Jazz Notes. London Jazz Festival set by Ian Shaw
  Ian Shaw (singer)
  Ian Shaw is a Welsh jazz singer, record producer, and former stand up comedian.Shaw was born at St. Asaph, Wales, and his career in performance began on the Alternative Cabaret Circuit, alongside such performers as Julian Clary, Rory Bremner and Jo Brand.In his music career he has recorded and...
  
  , Cedar Walton
  Cedar Walton
  Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an American hard bop jazz pianist.-Biography:Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton's initial teacher. She also took him to jazz performances around Dallas...
  
  , Iain Ballamy, Mark Hodgson and Mark Fletcher
  Mark Fletcher
  Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005....
  
  . 25.1.00

• Jazz on 3. Iain Ballamy's Food for Quartet - a new Anglo-Norwegian collaboration between Iain Ballamy, Thomas Stronen, Mats Eilerstein and Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen
  Arve Henriksen is a Norwegian trumpet player, renowned for his distinctive, flute-like sound on the trumpet, inspired by the sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute. He also sings; his unique wordless vocalising was central to Chiaroscuro, where he often sings in a soprano's range...
  
  . Recorded at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
  Cheltenham Jazz Festival
  Cheltenham Jazz Festival is one of the UK’s leading jazz festivals, and is part of Cheltenham Festivals: also responsible for the Science, Music and Literature Festivals that run every year.]-Introduction and history:...
  
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• Signal to Noise, Dave McKean
  Dave McKean
  David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....
  
   and Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
  , R4, 1997.

• Impressions. Iain Ballamy discusses his various projects and performs with his group Hungry Ants, with Richard Fairhust, Steve Watts
  Steve Watts
  Steve Watts is a retired English footballer who last played for Sutton United. Watts is also a professional poker player who played in the World Series of Poker in 2009...
  
   and Tim Giles
  Tim Giles
  Tim Giles is a jazz drummer who won the Daily Telegraph Young Composer of the Year Award in 1992 at the age of 12 and has gone on to perform with a variety of jazz musicians. Giles was a member of Richard Fairhurst's Hungry Ants, and later formed his own group, Fraud, with James Allsopp. Fraud...
  
  . 20.1.96

• "Jazz at the Bath Festival". Human Chain
  Human Chain
  Human Chain is a British jazz quartet led by composer and keyboard virtuoso Django Bates. The band has been Bates’s main musical outlet since 1990 and has performed on most of his albums....
  
   (Django Bates
  Django Bates
  Django Bates , is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra.-Career:Django Bates was born in Beckenham,...
  
  , Iain Ballamy, Stuart Hall
  Stuart Hall (musician)
  Stuart Hall is a British multi-instrumentalist from the UK. He is equally renowned for his talent on violin, guitar and double bass, and several less mainstream string instruments such as the oud, pedal steel, bouzouki, saz, banjo, kemence, tres, lyra & gudulka....
  
  , Martin France
  Martin France
  Martin France is an English jazz drummer based in London. He has been the rhythmic backbone on more than 60 albums working with some of the world's finest musicians....
  
  ) with Joanna MacGregor
  Joanna MacGregor
  Joanna MacGregor is a classical, jazz and contemporary pianist.-Biography:MacGregor grew up in North London, and was educated at home by her Seventh-day Adventist parents until she attended South Hampstead High School at the age of 11. Her mother is a piano teacher who studied at the Royal...
  
  . BBC Radio 3 10.7.93

• Straight Face. Group led by Mick Hutton featuring Claire Martin
  Claire Martin (singer)
  Claire Martin, OBE is an English jazz singer, born in Wimbledon, South London, England.Claire Martin grew up in a house "full of music", and claims to have learned all of Judy Garland´s songs by the time she was 12...
  
  , Iain Ballamy, Nikki Iles
  Nikki Iles
  Nikki Iles is an English jazz composer and musician, playing piano and accordion.Iles was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, her parents both musicians...
  
   and Steve Arguelles
  Steve Argüelles
  Steve Argüelles is an English jazz drummer, producer and is the boss of the record label . He has also worked in film and theatre. He is the elder brother of saxophonist Julian Argüelles...
  
  . BBC Radio 3 27.2.93

Film Sessions

• My Son the Fanatic
  My Son the Fanatic (film)
  My Son the Fanatic is a 1997 British drama film directed by Udayan Prasad. It was written by Hanif Kureishi from his short story My Son the Fanatic.-Plot:...
  
  
• Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names
• Absolute Beginners
  Absolute Beginners
  Absolute Beginners is a novel by Colin MacInnes, written and set in 1958 London, England. It was published in 1959. The novel is the second of MacInnes' London Trilogy, coming after City Of Spades and before Mr. Love and Justice...
  
  
• The Last Days of General Patten
• MirrorMask
  MirrorMask
  Mirrormask is a 2005 fantasy film from Jim Henson Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and Destination Films. It stars Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee. It is designed and directed by Dave McKean, written by Neil Gaiman from a story they developed together...
  
  

Teaching

Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

, Birmingham Conservatoire, Trinity College of Music

Trinity College of Music

Trinity College of Music is one of the London music conservatories, based in Greenwich. It is part of Trinity Laban.The conservatoire is inheritor of elegant riverside buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren...

, Rhythmic Music Conservatory

Rhythmic Music Conservatory

The Rhythmic Music Conservatory is a music conservatoire in Copenhagen, Denmark. The RMC was founded in 1986 as an independent institution of higher education under the Danish Ministry of Culture and is the only school in Denmark specializing in contemporary music training programmes.In 2005, it...

 Copenhagen, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama is a conservatoire within the University of Glamorgan Group located in Cardiff, Wales....

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External links

• Iain Ballamy's homepage
• Iain Ballamy's MySpace page
• Biography at Jazzcds
• Biography at Babel

Interviews

• Interview at BBC Music/Jazz
• Interview with Iain Ballamy at Innerviews
• Interview with Iain Ballamy in Jazzwise Magazine

Reviews

• Review of Veggie, The Guardian 11 October 2002
• Review of Veggie at All About Jazz
• Review of The Little Radio, The Guardian 6 February 2004
• Review of Little Radio, BBC Music/Jazz

Articles

• Balancing act, The Times 07/10/1989

• Sax men find solutions, The Sunday Times 08/10/1989
• Review of Organic and GM Food at All About Jazz