Music:
Member Since: 2/10/2007
Band Website: trevorlines.co.uk
Band Members: 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 alos play a blue Bridge Cetus electric uprightThis is a MySpace for all my musical activity - which is roughly 2 kinds
- jazz/improvised & related
- folk/world & relatedJAZZ/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 new trio with LIAM NOBLE piano and MARK SANDERS drums. This is mainly an improvising group, but we also play some of my compostions, and especially we use some material I devised for my duo (vs) with Sal Erskine (trumpet/live loops & processing0, which is based around time-cycles and (mostly) invented modes. We did our debut gig in February 200t at the Coffee Lounge, courtesy of the Cobweb Collective, a local jazz musicians organisation I play free improvisation gigs monthly with BRUCE COATES, PAUL DUNMALL. and other guest musicians (Fr.Imp), and am a member of BIRMINGHAM IMPROVISERS'ORCHESTRA; I'm writing a piece for this large ensemble in time for our Birmingham Jazz concert at the CBSO Centre in April 2007.Current projects include a recording of the Noble/Sanders/Lines trio, with a series of future releases planned including players such as Tony l;evin and Paul Dunmall. I'm also working toward a further new group with Huw Rees (acoustic keyboards) Tom Chapman (cajon) me (acoustic bass guitar) and possibly one other person which will work more with song form and the rich timbres that can come from acoustic sounds - no demo yet. 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)FOLK/WORLD I've got a long background in playing traditional folk music - mostly for dancing, but I've also worked and recorded with singers such as Hilary Spencer and Bill Caddick; later this year I'm starting work on an album by the great singer Chris Foster.
My main folk band is a new trin THE OTHER FOOT with SAMANTHA NORMAN and HELEN LANCASTER on fiddles & viola, and me on double-bass. 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 . Samantha and Helen are featured as a duo on my forthcoming folk album, and also appear on several other tracks. 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.
I'm in the process of finishing a folk album which is based on the tunes I've been writing under the influence of traditional music over the years and includes some of the numbers performed live by Carleen Anglim and Chalktown. The album includes Joe Broughon, Paul Dunmall, and Tom Chapman; there is still some recording to be done, but it should be out for late spring.
ZOOT ALORS! is a French/Breton style band with hurdy-gurdy, cittern, bagpipes, melodeon, and me - see the band's myspace
Singer-songwriter KATE DOUBLEDAY's band includes me on basses and dulcimers - we've just finished recording her new album - 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.
Record Label: Wriggly Pig
Type of Label: Indie