Christopher Paul Bridges

Performance and Composition
God's Trombones for voice, trombone, guitar, bass and
drums. Setting of James Weldon Johnson's collection
of Negro Sermons, performed in the 2003 Manchester
Jazz Festival.

Finding the Thing, for four voices, saxophone,
trombone, guitar, piano, bass and drums. Show in
which a man suffers an existential experience in front
of his television, performed in the 2001 Manchester
Jazz Festival.

Chris Bridges Spacial Ensemble, voices, saxophone,
trombone, guitar, piano, bass, percussion, drums,
performing a collection of original songs and pieces
for a lottery funded tour in 1997, and in the 1999
Manchester Jazz Festival.

Recording for Radio Three with Paul Dumnall's Moksha
Big Band in March 2003. Performance and recording withvarious band's, including the John Ellis Big Bang,
Paul Dumnall's Octet, Orchestra Timbala, the London
Jazz Composer's Orchestra as well as other work in
jazz and latin ensembles.