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About Me

Birthday 11/04/1966I am from Navenby, in Lincolnshire, and as a boy I sang ancient choral music in quite a high voice in Lincoln Cathedral which is nearly 1000 years old. I really started things in New York in 1990, jamming with Nappy G and Jamalski and DJ's Smash and Jazzy Nice at a club called Giant Step. So I proceeded to meet Jon Maron, Genji Siraisi, Itaal Shur, Jay Rodriguez, Bill Ware, Fabio Morgera, Josh Roseman, Chris Theberge and that led to us starting The Groove Collective. We made records and toured, as you do if you're in a band, and got quite away around the world using massively powerful aeroplanes and tour buses and playing in little clubs and jazz festivals and sometimes rock stadiums, which is quite a strange thing for a flute player to do. I learned a lot from NYC about the Jazz/ Latin/African musical diaspora (cultural as well) and also climbed a lot of rocks and mountains (often during tours). There is even a boulder in Central Park named after me (Worthless Boulder). America was never going to be my resting ground, so now I am back in the Old World in Edinburgh, where I play in sevaral different settings: a band called Livesciences, a part time Jazz funk band of mine called The Resistence, and projects with Benofficial: Urban Farmhand, and Urban Free Hand (two sides of the same coin). You can check out more of that at Benofficial's Myspace place. I also compose through Edinburgh University, gaining my Masters.The greatest tap dancers ever (and Lauren's uncles)...

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Member Since: 1/10/2007
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Influences: These are some things I have studied or learned from; things that allowed me to see what is possible or that I've just been tempted to rip off: L'Apres Midi d'un Faun, Standing on the verge of gettin' it on, Janacek's string quartets, What is and what should never be, third stone from the sun, Red Hot Mamma, Jeux, So What, Unchained, Come Sunday, A Love Supreme, Free your mind and your ass will follow, Who Knows, Roundabout, Bartok's string quartets, the well tempered claviar, Papa don't take no mess, Long distance runaround, Achilles' last stand, Speak no evil, My fairy king, Quartet for the end of time,Miles runs the voodoo down, Stone Free, Thriving on a riff, Sextant, KV551 Jupiter, 1983 a merman I should turn to be.., Lady Cab driver, Off the wall, Blue 7, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Out to lunch, Fuscia Swing Song, Pink Cashmere, Kashmir, Eruption, The Lark ascendeth, The Far East Suite, If you're not part of the solution then you're part of the problem, Sleep dirt, Duke of prunes, Maiden Voyage, Teen Town, 125th Street Congress, Palm Grease, Syrinx, Donna Lee, Are you experienced, Tijuana Moods, Outstanding, Shhhh...Peaceful, String quartet in G minor (Debussy) and so on. Also almost any writing by Evelyn Waugh and Kurt Vonnegut
Sounds Like: Notes: mainly twelve of them, though sometimes some of the ones in between Chords: many types, in and out, staying still or moving Rhythms: straight up and down, or bouncing around, sliding or not at all
Record Label: REPRISE(dropped) GRP(dropped) SHANACHIE(left band)

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Mushrooms

Apparently if the whole world lived like Brits did in the sixties, human life would be sustainable. I remember the seventies, and people bought a lot less, and a lot of it came unwrapped, or say in th...
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