The guitar/bass trio has either Uli Elbracht, orAndy Mackenzie on guitar, and Frank Grime on bass.
I have often worked, with Liz Fletcher, especially when she comes up North to sing, usually with Dave Green on bass, and Pat McCarthy on guitar.
And in the an improvising corner there is a string quartet - "Four Candles", a duo with Stephen Grew, and I also perform solo.
Influences
Mike Brecker, Nathan Milstein, Jimi Hendrix, JS Bach, Jack Goldzweig, Eric Dolphy, Robert Anton Wilson, Jan Garbarek, Mark Feldman, Lester Bowie, Didier Malherbe, Ralph Towner, Bela Bartok, Prince, P-Funk, David Butler, Jeff Beck, Jackie Mason, Frank Zappa, John Maynard Smith, Allan Holdsworth, ..>Daevid Allen, Andy Sheppard, Les Clark, Evan Parker, BB King, Esme Clark, Buddy Guy, Len Palmer, Eberhard Weber, Charlie Mariano, John Taylor, Pharoah Sanders, Stan Sulzman, Richard Gregory, Bill Evans, Karl Popper, John Coltrane, Arthur Blythe, Emperor Joshua Norton ...
I have been playing jazz on violin professionally since 1982. I cut my jazz teeth while living in Bristol and London in the 1980s, by sitting in everywhere.
From 1988 - 1992 I was a member of cult psychedelic jazz-rock band "GONG", touring extensively in France, Italy and the UK, and recording several albums.
Based in NW England since 1996, I play regularly on the thriving Manchester jazz scene. In 2003, I did a solo improvisation tour supporting the American "No-Neck Blues Band" (Paris, Amsterdam, London). Also performed with Bryan Glancy, supporting David Gray, amongst many other shows.
I also play with 'TOOLSHED,' an experimental fusion of techno and big band jazz led by Graham Massey, of 808 State. In 2004 I performed with Toolshed for a Radio Three broadcast from Belfast, as part of the BBC Music Live festival. I have also been seen with Lamb, Elbow, La Timbala, Salsa Pa'Gozar, & Liz Fletcher, amongst others. I still give both solo and collaborative improvised performances.
Current projects include a free improvising string quartet, a guitar bass and violin trio, and a book on approaches to improvisation, drawing on over twenty years of teaching experience combined with a knowledge of cognitive psychology.
In October 2004, I recorded a series of improvised duets with US violinist Mark Feldman. These were broadcast in February 2005 on Radio 3's "Mixing it".
I was the solo Electric Violinist for the Jean-Claude Vannier concert at the Barbican on 21st October 2006, with Big Jim Sullivan, Vic Flick, Herbie Flowers and Dougie Wright, as well as the BBC Concert Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus
A new project is to develop solo improvisations with improvised dance. As this idea grows, I am hoping to use the Improvising String quartet with dance. Most recently the string quartet has worked with a quartet of improvising singers in Morecambe.
I have also recently begun to work with Stephen Fretwell.
Hey Fella, long time no drinkies!! Got John Fairhust, Victorian Dad Band and Alabaster Deplume on at the Bakers tomorrow evening, it's gonna be a corker! miss you moo x
Although the human's feet only occupy a small part of the earth, it is by the space he does not occupy, that man can walk on the immense earth . Although human intelligence only reaches a parcel of the total truth, it is by what it does not reach, that man can understand what is the sky. Tchouang Tze
Hi, Thanks to exist and be alive ! XXX Peace and Love Lehmon
HI just wanted to let you know we are playing at underground venues in Buxton 20th and 24th July, we were saying we would love to play with you if you want to at some point
