Simon Goulding | Familia

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Bass, Keyboards, Simon Goulding

Simon Goulding - Familia

Simon Goulding ::|:: Familia – [Simon Goulding, 2010]

Debut album with 12 tracks of a hard hitting mix of Jazz/Latin/Fusion with smooth melodies woven around intricate and intriguing rhythms to create a sound thats Funky and original with more than a hint of bass.

-::BIO::- I grew up in the village of Coppull, Lancashire, NW England. I Started playing the bass guitar at the age of 9 and quickly realized that it was what I wanted to do for ever. How did the bass guitar come into my hands…..Well.. I remember watching an Eric Clapton concert on TV as a kid. I noticed a guy stood at the back next to the drummer who was making the band groove and the music made me get goose bumps everytime the bass player was shown on TV. I then started to be obsessed with the bass and it’s role in the band sitting in front of the radio, TV and listening out for the bass and trying to find out who it was because most of the time they would’nt tell you who the band was. Years of intensive woodshedding followed. I studied music at school and actually was teaching at the school music centre while still a student. I studied music at Wigan & Leigh college obtaining a BTEC national diploma in performing arts and being awarded the college music prize on 2 consecutive years.

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Anne Guus Teerhuis Trio | Tarhouse Tales

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Anne Guus, European Jazz, Piano

- Anne Guus Teerhuis Trio - Tarhouse Tales -

Anne Guus Teerhuis Trio ::|:: Tarhouse Tales – [YPF Artists, 2010]

-::BIO::- Anne Guus (1981) started playing piano age 5. He received classical lessons initially, and started playing jazz at age 13. At age 16 he got in the final of a national Petrov piano competition, playing his own compositions as well as transcriptions of Oscar Peterson and Michel Camilo. November 2006 he finished dentistry at the faculty of medical science in Groningen, Holland. June 2007 he finished summa cum laude at the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen, with the ‘New York comes to Groningen’ project.

July 2008 he played with his trio in the final of the Dutch Jazz Competition at the North Sea Jazz festival in Rotterdam. January 2009 he won the YPF piano concours at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam. Currently Anne Guus is working part-time as a dentist and part-time as a pianist/composer.

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John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension | To The One

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Fusion, Guitar, John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension - To The One

John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension ::|:: To The One – [Abstract Logix, 2010]

With his new album To The One, iconic guitarist, composer and 2010 Grammy Winner John McLaughlin looks backwards and forwards simultaneously. The six original songs are hauntingly evocative – with roiling rhythmic swells, modal expanses, and telepathic group interaction echoing the profound influence of John Coltrane’s 1965 spiritual jazz masterpiece A Love Supreme. The music of To The One was set down in the studio with very few overdubs, by McLaughlin’s current performing outfit, the Fourth Dimension: Gary Husband (keyboards, drums), Etienne M’Bappe (electric bass), and Mark Mondesir (drums).

Compositional devices clearly inspired by Coltrane are fused with elements of McLaughlin’s own multifaceted approach, all delivered with a group empathy and shared vision that harkens back to Coltrane’s fearless mid-’60s quartet of Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Garrison. The effect of Jones’ kaleidoscopic approach to rhythm and drumming is especially felt, brilliantly recast and explored via McLaughlin’s gift for complex metrical structures.

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