{"id":218475,"date":"2026-10-28T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/recordcollectormag.com\/?p=218475"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:45:54","slug":"engine-room-this-month-mark-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/recordcollectormag.com\/articles\/engine-room-this-month-mark-sanders","title":{"rendered":"Engine Room This month: Mark Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Born in 1960 in Beckenham, Kent, drummer&nbsp;Mark Sanders, who is of British-Belizean&nbsp;heritage, has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the best free jazz and free improvisation players around. He\u2019s worked with many legends of the British scene, and it all started, he&nbsp;says, speaking from his Birmingham home via&nbsp;Zoom, with the record collection that his uncle&nbsp;put together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.webp\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"218487\" src=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-900x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-900x1024.webp 900w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-264x300.webp 264w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-768x874.webp 768w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.webp 1039w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2.webp\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"218486\" src=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2.webp 500w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-200x200.webp 200w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-400x400.webp 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was listening to good rock&nbsp;music. I fell in love with it all. I&nbsp;loved Keith Moon. The Who was it for me, but I&nbsp;really enjoyed the jazz my dad was listening to&nbsp;as well.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his late teens, Sanders began taking&nbsp;drumming lessons from Warrington-based&nbsp;musician, Nobby Clark. \u201cThey took place in this&nbsp;house full of musicians in Stockwell in London.&nbsp;When Nobby moved out, he let me move in. One&nbsp;mate was the drummer with Lene Lovich. There&nbsp;was Ted Emmett who played trumpet with&nbsp;Teardrop Explodes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upstairs lived Paul Rogers, a&nbsp;double bassist who worked with British jazz&nbsp;greats Stan Tracy and Evan Parker. \u201cI fell in love with this amazing creative music,\u201d says Sanders, \u201cI\u2019d be going to all sorts of gigs all the time. Punk&nbsp;gigs at the Roundhouse. The Jam. Motorhead&nbsp;supporting the Damned \u2013 that was amazing.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanders\u2019 own first gigs were as part of a disco covers band alongside a bass-playing friend. \u201cWe did all&nbsp;the workingmen\u2019s clubs up north. Three sets of&nbsp;ABBA a night. We went to Germany and played American Air Force bases. It was a good&nbsp;education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in London, enamoured by the&nbsp;emerging alternative rock sound of The Slits and Raincoats, Sanders put an ad in <em>Melody&nbsp;Maker<\/em>. \u201cThis guy called Simon Rose answered&nbsp;the ad. We started a band called Animal Answer,&nbsp;got a little deal with Bonaparte Records. We did&nbsp;the Woolwich Tramshed Battle Of The Bands and&nbsp;came second.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aged 20, Sanders began taking&nbsp;council-run evening classes in jazz in Brixton, run by trumpeter Brian Tueson. \u201cHe really helped me, and Paul Rogers introduced me to lots ofpeople.\u201d Those people included reggae session&nbsp;musicians Tony Uta (Linton Kwesi Johnson) and&nbsp;saxophonist Michael \u2018Bami\u2019 Rose (Cymande \/&nbsp;Aswad). \u201cI was learning with great players.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1978, Sanders unsuccessfully auditioned for&nbsp;Public Image Ltd. \u201cIt was between me and Jim&nbsp;Walker, who got the job. He\u2019d just left Berklee. He&nbsp;was fantastic. I was just starting out.\u201d Years&nbsp;later, the PiL connection would resurface, when&nbsp;Sanders began a long-time association with the&nbsp;band\u2019s former bassist, Jah Wobble. Meanwhile,&nbsp;the drummer took afternoon classes in free&nbsp;improvisation with renowned violinist Philipp&nbsp;Wachsmann. There, he met Phil Durrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was&nbsp;playing electronics and violin. He suggested we run a regular gig as a duo, with a special guest&nbsp;each week.\u201d Saxophonist Evan Parker was one of&nbsp;those guests. \u201cHe called me the next day for a gig. Then [saxophonist] Elton Dean called me&nbsp;and I joined his band. It was instant.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanders\u2019 web of connections grew, \u201cThere weren\u2019t many young jazz drummers around, so I&nbsp;also got quite a bit of work playing in restaurants&nbsp;and bars, at the same time working with Evan Parker and [composer] Barry Guy. Then came the jazz boom.\u201d The 1980s resurgence of the genre, fuelled by black British artists and centred&nbsp;in London, led to Sanders working with free jazz&nbsp;musician Jon Lloyd, and bassists Paul Rogers and&nbsp;John Edwards among many others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-scaled.webp\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"218488\" src=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-768x513.webp 768w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-2048x1365.webp 2048w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-320x214.webp 320w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-480x321.webp 480w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-1200x802.webp 1200w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mark-Sanders-2-credit-Dawid-Laskowski-1440x960.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the 90s, Sanders continued to&nbsp;record with Evan Parker and Elton Dean as well as composers Tim Richards and Simon H Fell, and pianist Veryan Weston. In 1996, the drummer worked with another great British improviser, Steve Beresford, on the latter\u2019s&nbsp;albums <em>Fish Of The Week<\/em> and <em>Cue Sheet<\/em>, as well as playing on a session for David Sylvian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou have this sort of feast and famine, especially playing improvised music,\u201d he says. \u201cIn the mid-90s, I was able to come off the dole. I started touring more high-profile gigs. I started working in Europe. I was getting calls from France and Germany. When&nbsp;EasyJet and Ryanair started, it was easier.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year 2000 saw Sanders first work alongside Jah&nbsp;Wobble, as part of the bassist\u2019s Deep Space group on the album <em>Beach Fervour Spare<\/em>. The&nbsp;two met via mutual acquaintance and fellow&nbsp;Wobble collaborator, the specialist in Asian wind instruments, Clive Bell. \u201cHe [Bell] brought Wobble&nbsp;around to my place, we had a play, and that was it. I learned a lot from Wobble. He was great for long, improvised grooves, each lasting about half&nbsp;an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanders worked on 10 albums with&nbsp;Wobble over the next 10 years. That decade also saw him record with experimental composer John Wall, electronic duo Spring Heel&nbsp;Jack, the London Improvisers Orchestra,&nbsp;trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, Art Ensemble Of Chicago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and&nbsp;others. More recent entries to Sanders\u2019 discography include records by bassist-composer Neil Charles, saxophonist Larry Stabbins (Working Week), and John Butcher.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all, Sanders is credited on more than 200&nbsp;recordings. His favourite moments? \u201cGoing with Wobble to Hiroshima in Japan and playing a&nbsp;sacred music festival, which the Dalai Lama had&nbsp;curated. It was Wobble\u2019s band and a group of Laotian musicians [as featured on the album,&nbsp;<em>Molam Dub<\/em>, 2000]. It was a wonderful band, and&nbsp;an amazing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with free jazz&nbsp;saxophonist John Butcher is another highlight&nbsp;the drummer picks out. \u201cJohn Butcher is a big part of my career. I\u2019d wanted to play with him for so long. He had this project called Tarab Cuts&nbsp;with improvising and soloing. We went to Brazil,&nbsp;the USA and to Beirut, which was a wonderful&nbsp;experience.\u201d Also: \u201clots of great gigs with Evan [Parker], playing with people like Harold Budd. Playing with [trumpeter] Wadada Leo Smith was&nbsp;always a joy and doing Glastonbury with [saxophonist] John Tchicai as a duo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite his&nbsp;impressive list of achievements, Sanders says&nbsp;he is still learning. \u201cI\u2019m always practising. I was up at six this morning to avoid the heat. I love working on possible new directions. I\u2019ve tried&nbsp;sticking to one area but I really just love being&nbsp;versatile.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words: Chris Wheatley&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Neil Charles, Cleveland Watkiss&nbsp;and Pat Thomas \u2013 <\/em><\/strong><strong>Dark Days<em> is on Jazz Now&nbsp;Records.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/marksanders10.webp\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" data-id=\"218489\" src=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/marksanders10.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/marksanders10.webp 400w, https:\/\/siteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev:443\/https\/cdn.recordcollectormag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/marksanders10-200x300.webp 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Born in 1960 in Beckenham, Kent, drummer&nbsp;Mark Sanders, who is of British-Belizean&nbsp;heritage, has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the best free jazz and free improvisation players around. 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