Malcolm Strachan has been a pro trumpet player since he left the Leeds college of music in 1996. During his career he has worked with countless artists and toured the world with big international names such as Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jamiroquai, The New Mastersounds, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Craig Charles’s Fantasy Funk Band and has recorded on countless pop tracks with various artists.

Malcolm, who is originally from Inverness, Scotland, formed horn section / funk band The Haggis Horns in 1998 after leaving the college with fellow Scots Atholl Ransome from Dunfermline and the late Jason Rae from Aberdeen. They started out doing various club residencies in Leeds and quickly gained a following after appearing on Keb Darge presents The New Mastersounds and soon later releasing their debut album entitled Hot Damn in 2007 on First Word Records.

Fast forward to today and The Haggis Horns are still going strong and as a horn section and do regular tours and pop sessions. Following five albums, the time had finally come for Malcolm to drop his debut solo album About Time,  a gorgeous set of soul-jazz instrumentals that tip their hat to the great sound of mid-late 1960a Blue Note.

Point Of No Return followed in 2023, this time more reminiscent of the jazz fusion albums that Malcolms’s jazz trumpet hero Freddie Hubbard recorded for the legendary CTI Records label in the early-mid 1970s. The same groove-based jazz where soul and funk beats are at the heart of the arrangement.

With his third solo album, Look On The Bright Side from 2026, Strachan explores soul-jazz, latin grooves and afrobeat touches, anchored by the warm, cinematic feel of 1970s jazz but driven by a clear sense of forward motion.

 

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