BRYAN CORBETT
Genres: Hard Bop, Nu Jazz, Classic Fusion • United Kingdom

Brian was born in Bromyard, near Hereford, England in 1974, and his father, musician Stuart Corbett, first bought his son a trumpet when Bryan was six. Leaving Hereford’s Sixth Form College, Bryan went to Liverpool’s L.I.H.E (Hope University) but spent some of his time at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. This was a general music course where Bryan was classically trained, and he joined various youth orchestras and wind bands playing principle trumpet with the National Children Wind Orchestra and the InternationPhoto of young Bryan Corbettal Youth Wind Orchestra. But as a teenager, Bryan really wanted to be a sportsman He told Kenny Matheson for Jazzwise: ‘All through my teens I wanted to be a professional sportsman. Cricket and football were all I had my eyes on. After university the fact of having to find a proper job raised its head, and I drifted into music. I had read more...