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Fayyaz Virji

Harmony & Peace

About Me


Welcome to Fayyaz Virji's page.
Trombonist, Composer, Arranger, Producer.
Listed under is some of the work Fayyaz has been involved in.
Please follow this link TV & PRODUCTION for tracks and Video.
Jazz Artists (Live & Studio)
NYJO
Jazz Warriors
Art Blakey
Buddy Childers
Craig Harris
Chris MacGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath
Archie Shepp (Brotherhood)
Carla Bley Very Big Band
Mike Garrick Big Band
Ray Charles Big Band
Jean Toussaint Quintet
London Philharmonic Orchestra (Ellington Film Music)
John Williams (Concerto for Guitar & Jazz Orchestra)
Hermeto Pascoal
Don Byron
Andrew Hill
Graham Collier
Dedication Orchestra (Vancouver Jazz Festival)
African Jazz All Stars
Jools Holland and the Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
Jason Moran UK Tour
Recording and Performance
Acoustic Alchemy (Aart)
Adeva (Where Is The Love)
Alexander O’Niel (Carry On)
Amy Winehouse (Jools Hootenanny 2006)
Annie Lennox
Astrid Gilberto
Atomic Kitten
Basia (Sweetest Illusion, Live on Broadway)
Beggar & Co
Bobby Womack
Brand New Heavies
The Bhundu Boys
Carmel. (Albums-Set Me Free, Everybody’s Got a Little Soul, The Falling)
Camelle Hinds
Cayenne
Cheb Bilal
Citrus Sun
Corrine Bailey Rae
Count Basic
Chaka Khan
Chris De Burg (Patricia The Stripper)
Dany Brillant
D’Angelo
D’Influence
Donna Summer
En Vogue
Eric Clapton
Fela Kuti
George Benson
George Micheal (Older)
Howard Jones
Incognito (Inside Life, Tribes Vibes and Scribes, Positivity, 100 and Rising, No Time Like The Future.)
James Beluchi
James McMillan (Up All Night up All Day)
James Morrison (Jools Hootenanny 2006)
Jamiroquoi
Jazz Jamaica (Massive)
Jean Toussaint
Jeff Beck
Keziah Jones (Blufunk Is a Fact !)
Kylie Minogue (Bob Monkhouse /Jools Hootenanny 07)
KT Tunstall (Jools Hootenanny 2006)
Lauren Hill (Miseducation)
Light Of The World
LightHouse Family (Raincloud)
Lulu (Independence)
Lynden David Hall (Do I Qualify)
Manu De Bango
Madelaine Peyroux (Jools Hootenanny 2006)
Marc Almond
Marla Glen
Martha Reeves
Maysa
McFly
Mika (Hootenanny 2007)
Mn8 (Beautiful Body, Dreamin)
Mori Kanti (Tamala le Voyageur)
Omar (There’s nothing like this)
Ordinary Boys (Brassbound)
Sir Paul McCartney(Hootenanny 2007)
Paul Young
Paul Weller
Pet Shop Boys (Metamorphosis)
Real (In The Sky Remix)
Ronnie Wood (Jools Holland)
Queens Of The Stone Age
R Kelly (T.G.I. Friday)
Robin Gibb
Right Said Fred
Roy Ayres
Sam Brown
Samuel Purdey
Sam Moore (Jools Hootenanny 2006)
Shaggy
Shaun Maguire (Today’s The Day, Monday’s Dreaming)
Shane McGowan
Shed 7 (A Maximum High)
Sister Sledge
Son By 4
Solomon Burke
Stevie Wonder
Suggs (Money In My Pocket)
Swing Out Sister (Stone Soul Picnic, Shapes and Patterns)
Ruby Turner
Tina Turner (What Ever You Want From Me)
Tom Jones
Thomas Dolby (UK Tour 07)
Viviene McKone
Will Young
Wet Wet Wet
Radio TV Film Commissions
Paradise Club episode (Circles composed for Carmel)
Jazz and Steam (Ch 4 Pilot)
Highway (Arrangement for String Quartet of Be still my Soul composed by Sibelius)
Night Owls (Composed and arranged many songs for broadcast on radio 2)
Sandhya Raag (Composed for the Unknown Public Broadcast on radio 3)
Hanna Monster Darling (Co composer and Arranger on film by Cristen Bergen)
Title theme to “Something for the Weekend” (Composer RDF pilot CH4)
Animal House (Composer for RDF Television for Channel 5)
Wine World (.Co-composer/ RDF Television. International release)
All Sorts (Co-composer. CH4)
Producer/Artist on my own project ‘FRAYZ’ (Signed to Toshiba-EMI Japan)
Royal Wedding Bells (Composer/RDF Television. International)
Style World (Composer/RDF Television. International)
Science of Secrecy (Composer/Diverse Productions. CH4)
History of Agriculture (Composer/Stellar Productions. Discovery CH)
Cromwell (Composer/Wall to Wall TV. CH4)
7 Ages of Britain (Composer/Wildfire TV. CH4)
Who Wrote the Bible (Composer/CH4)
Atom (Composer/BBC4 Oxford Scientific Films)
Radio TV Video and Film performance
Wogan (Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Incognito)
The Tube (Dexy’s, Carmel,)
Blue Peter
Magpie
Top of The Pops (Incognito, Dexy’s, Shed 7)
Miss World (5 Star)
This Morning (Incognito)
Octopussy (Musician/extra)
Jonathan Ross Show (Sandie Shaw, Slash)
Pebble Mill at One (NYJO, Incognito, Carmel, Michael Bolton)
What’s the Noise (Incognito)
Club Mix (Jazz Warriors)
Parallel 1 (Incognito)
321 (Super Jazz)
The National Lottery (Joe Cocker)
Radio 1 Road Show (Incognito)
GLR (Jazz Warriors)
Tokyo on Air (Incognito)
Snow Queen I & II (Film scores composed by Chris Caswell)
Prometheus (Filmscore composed by Richard Blackford)
Clive James Show (Theme tune)
Bob Monkhouse On The Spot (House Band)
Harry Enfield Television Program
Comic Strip (The Nose of Courage)
Ruby Wax Show (Theme tune)
September Films (Class, Mistress)
Richard Briers (If you see God tell him /BBC2)
11 O’clock Show (Theme Tune)
Brian Conely Show (House Band Ch4)
Ben Elton (House Band BBC)
Manchild (BBC)
Johnny Vaughn Show(House Band)
BBC Parkinson (Lighthouse Family)
BBC Bells Whiskey (Jools Holland Commercial)
At present working freelance as Trombonist and composer - arranger in London.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/3/2007
Influences: Too many to list all..... Herbie Hancock, Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, Brecker Brothers, Chick Corea, George Duke, Ustad Alla Rakha, John McLaughlin, Carl Fontana, Frank Rosolino, Hariprasad Chaurasia, John Coltrane, Salif Keita, Ennio Moricone, Freddie Hubbard, Miriam Makeba, Chris MacGregor, Winton Marsalis, Jerry Hey, Dick Shearer, Stan Kenton, Pat Williams, Tom Scott, Michael Jackson, Sting, Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, Earth Wind and Fire, Ghandi, Mandela .............
Sounds Like: .. Beggar & Co at the Mau Mau Portabello Road
27 August 2008

Type of Label: None