Autumn Breeze
My focus has been on composition over the last few years. This series of tunes has been written specifically for solo performance on the jazz guitar.
Enjoy my work
All the best
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
I have over the years, worked with many musicians in a wide variety of styles.
In recent years I have found that writing and composition have taken over and I get a tremendous amount of joy from the writing process
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Playing live is the most satisfying experience on the planet, the thrill of playing something that I've created, and have people like it. Its my kind of thrill seeker thing, the adrenalin of the live audience.
The bigger the audience, the better the thrill.
Your musical influences
What influences me as a performer can vary upon where I'm playing, and the type of audience.
My musical influences are many and varied, obviously much of it stems from guitarists.
From rock, it is more from guitarists I have seen live so to quote a few names, Blackmore, Page, Rhodes, Young, Schenker, May, Gallagher, Leifson, Iommi, etc.
From the Blues, its mostly recordings, and there are too many to mention, but my favourite blues player is still very current, and thats a guy called Duke Robillard.
Classical, There are only really three that I listen to regularly, those are Williams, Bream, and of course Segovia.
Jazz, the two mainstays of that are Martin Taylor and some seriously old stuff with Django Rheinhardt.
What equipment do you use?
My equipment is fairly straight forward, and works on the principle of "I'm a lazy git, and I dont want to cart too much shit about".
Anything else?
This album is a series of 1o solo jazz guitar instrumentals of varying moods and styles
