Trevor Lines

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February 10, 2007

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Trevor Lines - double bass and bass guitar - occasionally hammer dulcimer and percussion. I've got a liking for the more unusual bass guitar sounds, so alongside my Warwick fretted and Fender Jazz fretless, I often play a Thornbury acoustic bass guitar, Shergold 8-string, or Hofner Beatles bass. My main double-bass is a Wilfner 5-string (low B) and I also play a blue Bridge Cetus electric upright This is a MySpace for all my musical activity - which is roughly 2 kinds - jazz/improvised & related - folk/world & related JAZZ/IMPROVISED I'm a freelance jazz double-bassist working out of Birmingham UK. For many years I was a full-time disability rights worker and came late to playing seriously, but in my mid-30s I turned professional after taking the postgraduate jazz course at the Guildhall School of Music, which led to some ongoing associations with some of my fellow-students such as Liam Noble, Dave Blackmore and Martin Hathaway. I have my own quintet: there are currently 3 tracks on the site fom my album: "The Cats Hide Under The Bed When I Play My Gary Windo Records". The band is Martin Dunsdon (tenor & soprano sax) Duncan Mackay/Martin Shaw (trumpet) Tom Porter/Liam Noble (piano) Simon Pearson (drums) - the tracks up have Tom & Duncan on them. The tunes are either originals by me (such as "Goodbye Mr Bond") or adaptations/aarrangments of traditinal British folk music ("Gentlemen of High Renown", "Bonaparte's Retreat" It's released on Wriggly Pig Records ( a label run by Mark Lockett), distributed via Impetus or you can get it via me. The 7th edition of "The Penguin Guide to Jazz On CD" called it original and consistently moving; it also described the title track as a tour de force, but it was too long to put on the myspace site, so you'll just have to buy the album, won't you. I have a trio with LIAM NOBLE piano and MARK SANDERS drums. This is mainly an improvising group, but we also play some of my compositions. I play free improvisation gigs monthly at the FrImp club with BRUCE COATES, PAUL DUNMALL, MARK SANDERS and other guest musicians, and am a member of BIRMINGHAM IMPROVISERS' ORCHESTRA Current projects include a recording of the Noble/Sanders/Lines trio, with a series of future releases planned involving these musicians and the likes of Paul Dunmall and Tony Levin, plus a further new trio (vs)2 with PEI ANN YEOH (violin) LYDIA GLANVILLE (cajon/percussion) and me playing acoustic bass guitar - the material is mostly drawn from the earlier electric duo version of (vs) with Sal Erskine (trumpet) which relied heavily on live looping, sampling and processing based around time/rhythm cycles and (mostly)invented modes. There is also a new album out on Wriggly Pig from the organ trio LAS VEGAS POWER CUTwith MARK LOCKETT (organ/piano/found sounds) WILFRIED CHEVALIER (drums/berimbau) me (electric basses/sampling) - this band is developing an association with altoist STEVE POTTS FOLK/WORLD I've got a long background in playing traditional folk music - mostly for dancing with bands including The Reelists, The Reliable Fish Co., Chalktown, Captain Adequate's All-Stars, and Gas Mk 5, but I've also worked and recorded with singers such as Hilary Spencer and Bill Caddick, and Irish fiddler Carllen Anglim. Recently I was lucky enough to play on the new album 'Outsiders' by the great CHRIS FOSTER - this was a runner-up in the 2008 fRoots album of the year awards and a track is included on the CD fRoots 32 with the given away with the Jan/Feb 2009 fRoots (see his my space). The big news for me is that I've recently been invited to join the reformed RAN TAN BAND and I'm looking forward to playing as many dances as possible with them in 2009. I'm also in the process of completing a solo cd of my folk tunes "The First Day of Winter'. This will be out in 2009 and has JOE BROUGHTON as featured violinist with guests including JOHN KIRKPATRICK, KEVIN DEMPSEY and PAUL DUNMALL. I also have a trio THE OTHER FOOT with SAMANTHA NORMAN and HELEN LANCASTER on fiddles & viola, and me on double-bass (see our myspace). This a concert/club trio built on the rich sound of two interweaving lead insturments with lots of space for the bass to drive things along . For dances we are joined by TOM CHAPMAN (cajon) and become The Other Foot Dance Band - we either work with outside callers or I call and play bass guitar. The track on the site is from a dance band demo that we recently recorded. Other bands - ZOOT ALORS! is a French/Breton style band with hurdy-gurdy, cittern, bagpipes, melodeon, and me - album on the way - see the band's myspace Singer-songwriter KATE DOUBLEDAY's band includes me on basses and dulcimers - Kate's songs are heavily influenced by her studies of West African vocal music, but have their own unique identity. Her most recent album "Belonging" was released in 2008; alongside me the band features Dan Wilkins (guitar/kora) and Tom Chapman (cajon/les percussions du monde) - see her myspace I often find myself in exciting cross-arts/cross-style projects, and have played and recorded (amongst others) with tabla-player SARVAR SABRI's Sabri Ensemble and The Loop Orchestra, a melding of gamelan/dub/electronica - recordings on Wriggly Pig.

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Wriggly Pig