More about Freddie
A fearless improviser and virtuoso trumpeter, Freddie is one of the UK jazz scene’s brightest lights
His debut album “Transient” was very well received with a four star review in the Guardian as well as glowing reports from the online jazz community, which led to him winning the British Jazz Award for best trumpeter in 2017.
He is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and rose to prominence through the John Dankworth Orchestra, and has been a member of the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra since 2007.
He currently holds the trumpet chair in the Ronnie Scott’s Club Quintet, and has featured in Mark Fletcher’s “Fletch’s Brew” playing weekly shows at Ronnie's between 2010 and 2017.
Career highlights include appearing as soloist with the BBC Big Band, three performances at the BBC Proms, and bringing Roger Michell’s 2013 film “Le Week-end” to life with his inimitable muted trumpet stylings. He was also recently featured as a soloist on Claire Martin and Callum Au’s masterpiece “Songs and Stories” (released in 2022), and stepped into Herb Alpert’s shoes for the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club broadcast on BBC 2 commemorating Burt Bacharach earlier this year.
Freddie has played with, among others, Peter Erskine, Joe Locke, John Hendricks, Kenny Wheeler, Stan Sulzmann, Tim Garland, Jon Faddis, Kurt Elling, Gregory Porter, Curtis Stigers, Paloma Faith, Jess Glynne, Seth McFarlane and Dionne Warwick.
“Bebop for the 21st Century” - Patrick Hadfield, London Jazz
“A talented trumpet prodigy” - John Walters, the Guardian
CV
Awards / Qualifications
- British Jazz Award Best Trumpet 2017
- British Jazz Award Rising Star 2008
- Future Inns Jazz Award 2009
- BMus Hons Jazz LRAM (Royal Academy of Music)
- Associate of the Royal Academy of Music
Big Band
- National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Great Britain: Jazz Trumpet Soloist 2003-2007
- John Dankworth Big Band
- Dankworth Generation Band
- Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Trumpet Soloist 2007 - present day
- BBC Big Band: featured soloist
- BBC Proms Big Band directed by Guy Barker (2014 / 2015 / 2017)
- Callum Au Big Band
- Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band
- London Jazz Orchestra
- Calum Gourlay Big Band
- Gareth Lockrane Big Band
- Pete Long’s Gillespiana
- Laurence Cottle Big Band
- Stan Sulzmann Jazz Orchestra
- Pasadena Roof Orchestra
- Glenn Miller Orchestra UK
- Sid Lawrence Orchestra
- Tom Smith Big Band
- Simon Spillett Big Band
Pop Tours
- Paloma Faith
- Jess Glynne
- US3
- Blue Note at Sea 2017
Small Group Jazz
- Freddie Gavita Quartet
- Ronnie Scott’s Club Quintet
- Kyle Eastwood Band
- Jean Toussaint
- Fletch’s Brew
- Tim Garland Quintet
- Laurence Cottle Quintet
- Trish Clowes Emulsion / Tangent
- Rachael Cohen Quartet
- Alex Garnett’s Jazz Ambassadors
Discography
As leader:
Transient - Freddie Gavita (Froggy Records)
Meets the Bass Players - (Froggy Records)
As sideman:
1959 - Ronnie Scott’s Club Quintet
A Day In the Life - Tom Smith Big Band
Every Journey - Claire Cope Ensemble C
Dear Tubby H - Simon Spillet Big Band
Hikaru Utada - Bad Mode
Songs and Stories - Claire Martin and Callum Au
When Winter Turns to Spring - Jo Harrop and Paul Edis
The Sound of Soho - Ronnie Scott’s Club Quintet
Cheating the Polygraph - Gavin Harrison
Post Suite/Almost in Profile - Floating Points
Wires - Floating Points
Yellow Memories - Fatima
I Thought About You - Alexander Stewart
All or Nothing At All - Alexander Stewart
My Kinda Love - Tina May
Divas - Tina May
The Master and Margarita - Trish Clowes
Nine of a Kind - Yuri Galkin Nonet
Tone Poems - Michael Garrick
Something’s Coming - Callum Au Big Band
Holland Park Non-stop - Frank Griffith Big Band
Between Shadows - Ruben Fowler Big Band
Something Somewhere
Call Me Lucky - Alex Webb and the Copasetics
When I First Saw You There - Helen Burnett
TV / film:
Le Weekend - featured trumpet soloist
Downton Abbey - soundtrack and on screen
Mr Selfridge - soundtrack
As arranger/producer:
Beloved - Something’s Coming - Callum Au Big Band
I Thought About You - Alexander Stewart
Library Compositions:
https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/composer/freddie-gavita_515
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