Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance

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Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance features five of the UK's most accomplished young jazz musicians, in collaboration with U.S. jazz trumpet and flugelhorn legend Eddie Henderson. Arnie Somogyi is one of the UK's leading jazz bass players and innovative new bandleaders. Starting out on the violin at 5, bass guitar at 14 and later the double bass, Arnie began playing with Portishead's Adrian Utley during a BA Hons course in English at Bristol University before moving onto The Guildhall in London to study music exclusively. Arnie is a much-sought after musician, composer, bandleader and a jazz educator at Birmingham Conservatoire. He's played with many of the world's top jazz musicians from Steve Grossman, James Moody, Bobby Hutcherson, Annie Ross and Claire Martin, to Art Farmer, Joey Calderazzo and Bud Shank. He has featured on over 30 albums with leading talents including Urban Species, Galliano, Omar, Chris Botti and The Verve's Richard Ashcroft. He's also performed on film soundtracks including "The Talented Mr Ripley", and presented two BBC Radio 4 ‘road-movie-for-radio' documentaries about Eastern Europe. As one of the "all-stars" he performs regularly at Ronnie Scott's, one of the world's leading jazz venues. Arnie is also a partner in music production outfit, VoodooKazoo. His first album as leader and composer in 2000, "Cold Cherry Soup", received widespread critical acclaim and was chosen as BBC Music Magazine's Jazz Pick of the Month. He created and led the acclaimed Hun

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