Sneaking Out After Midnight

"Drummer/composer Mark Lockett shines in his new trio recording, featuring two young New York heavies playing his originals together with a couple of lesser known standards."
- Mike Nock, March 2012

Jazz drummer Mark Lockett was inspired by the wonderful music of American alto saxophonist and 'giant of jazz', Ornette Coleman, particularly the music he created with Don Cherry, Charlie Hayden and Ed Blackwell and equally, New York heavyweight, Ari Hoenig. The fusion of these two influences led Mark to write a series of themes and melodies that became the basis of this album.

Joel Frahm (saxophone) and Orlando Le Fleming (doublebass) brought the music to life, producing a fresh, joyful, and thoroughly modern sound, a successful merging of the unique character of jazz from 'down-under' with the esteemed rigour and pedigree of New York edge.