Richard Edwards is a versatile trombone player who has mastered all aspect and styles of the instrument as well as being accomplished composer/arranger.
His professional career includes:
Numerous film, recording sessions, television and radio productions
Classical orchestras including LPO, LSO, The Royal Opera House
Big bands including tours with James Last, The Pasadena Roof Orchestra, Natalie Cole and Johnny Mathis - plus recordings with several of these
Jazz recordings and tours for Carla Bley, John Surman and Colin Towns
West End shows
A member of London Brass since 1991, where both classical and jazz styles are required, he has produced many original works for their performances.
He is also a professor of Jazz Trombone at the Royal College of Music.
A native of Somersetshire, RichardEdwards was born about 1523, and is said to have died toward the end of 1566.
Edwards may be "a common name," but a facility for poetry and an interest in stagge affairs was certainly not held in common by many Elizabethans answering to the cognomen.
Thomas Edwards of Queen's, according to the Dictionary of National Biography, became in 1618 Rector of Langenhoe, Essex, one of the parishes in Lord Oxford's native county.