QUENTIN COLLINS with Dave Cottle Trio

QUENTIN COLLINS 

During a career of over 20 years, trumpeter Quentin Collins has established himself as one of the UK’s top jazz/commercial players. He has performed, toured and recorded with a plethora of internationally renowned artists across many genres including Fred Wesley, Gregory Porter, Mark Ronson, Omar, Basement Jaxx, Roy Ayers, Alicia Keys, Dennis Rollins and Mulatu Astatke.

At just 19 years old, he featured on ‘Star Chasers’, a track from 4Hero’s Mercury nominated album Two Pages and soon after, played on the instantly recognisable ‘Do Your Thing’ by Basement Jaxx.  

For the past twelve years, Quentin has toured the world extensively with the Kyle Eastwood Band and is featured prominently as a performer and arranger on Cinematic (Pias, 2019) and as performer and composer on In Transit (Pias, 2017), Time Pieces (Jazz Village, 2015)and The View From Here (Jazz Village, 2013). 

n 2015 Quentin co-founded Ubuntu Music with Martin Hummel,a label building a reputation for nurturing the careers of young & gifted artists and connect them with wider audiences. His role as Artistic Director allowed him to develop his skills as a producer and he played an integral role in the critically acclaimed debut albums Leo Richardson's The Chase, Camilla George’s Isang and Noemi Nuti’s Nice to Meet You as well as Chet Baker Live in London. He also producedhis ownQC/BA (a Hammond-organ quartet with tenor sax titan Brandon Allen) album Beauty in Quiet Places (Ubuntu Music, 2015), the follow up to debut What’s it Gonna Be (Sunlightsquare, 2011), and lauded in ‘Blues and Soul Magazine’ as being “So damn infectious, it's almost impossible to resist!"