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Welcome...
This Site
This website is the only official website for Duncan Lamont. It is run with
Duncan's blessing and he is contributing to it himself . You will find advice on practise, performance and various other saxophone techniques. Also Duncan is
breaking down his various compositions and arrangements which we are posting as
they arrive.
Our sister site
sfg publications
is now live. Here you will be able to not only see Duncan's scores and
arrangements but also listen to them in mp3 format, see the 'News' section on
the left for more information. Click on the name above to go there.
You can see, hear and download songs and
5 piece sax arrangements from
sibelius music You will need to install the scorch plug in from this
site to see the scores, just click 'get scorch' and in a couple of clicks you
will be there. Click on the name above to go there.
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Duncan was recently commissioned by Sir John
Dankworth to write lyrics for Cl eo
Laine for a new suite which was performed at the Royal Albert Hall during the
Proms season. The name of the suite was ‘The Blues Ain’t’ and was a sell out and
received a standing ovation. The Blues Ain’t was also performed at The
Barbican.
This year saw the advent of ‘Mr Benn the
Musical’ from the iconic television series, for which Duncan wrote lyrics to the
incidental music. The musical is based on the first of the Benn books ‘Mr Benn
Red Knight’ by David Mackee.
Duncan recently hosted a night of his own
compositions featuring the cream of British jazz singers, including Frank
Holder, Elaine Delmar, Norma Winstone and Ian Shaw. Tina May was the special
guest.
Duncan’s songs were included in the European
Composers Real Book, the songs were performed at the Pizza Express, one of the
premier jazz rooms in London , with a host of stellar performers including John
Dankworth and Cleo Laine. Cleo performed Duncan’s song ‘Not You Again’ which she
had recorded with George Shearing.
Duncan played and lectured on 2 jazz cruises
and is scheduled to do another in the coming months.
Also Duncan has appeared in a number of
concerts in Sarasota, USA and is in the process of composing a musical on King
Rollo the television series that he also composed the music for.
Whilst in the states Duncan was the subject of
several broadcasts which profiled his career.
Duncan has a new book out: How to Play Chords on a Keyboard
in 15 Minutes. It works, we've tried it..it's great.
Duncan has mentioned to us that he has gathered far
too many tenor saxophones and will be selling a couple of his Selmer tenors and
a vintage Conn Ladies Face tenor. These will be the same instruments he used on many recordings
and TV.
Use the contact area or email us if you are
interested.
Accessing the site
You can navigate this site by using the left hand buttons which should
take you to the areas you need to get to, also we have a contact us button and
we are in the privileged position to be able to speak to Duncan on a daily basis
if we have to.
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