About Me
Born Edinburgh,Scotland 1967, John moved to London 1987. He has played and recorded with Alan Skidmore, Harry Becket, Jim Mullen, Barry Guy, Maggie Nichols, Jerry Underwood, Elton Dean, Gunter Sommer, Walter Prati, Stan Sultzman, Chris Biscoe, Liam Noble, Tony Marsh, Mark Sanders, Fred Frith, Claude Deppa, Ed Jones, Isobel Campell and Dave Cliff. He has also worked with US musicians Warren Vache, Jean Toussaint, Valerie Pomanorev and George Lewis.
John has toured in Spain, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Czech Republic, north Africa and the Middle East. In 1989 John’s trio won the NFMS Special Concert Artist Award. John studied 1994 at Berklee School of Music, Boston, mass where his tutor was George Garzone and also privately with Jerry Bergonzi (Boston), Joe Henderson (San Francisco) and Don Lamphere (Seattle). Since returning to the UK Burgess has played several Jazz Festivals on the west coast of the US and Canada.
He has recorded over 50 times as a side man and has 7 albums as a leader,
"The Beautiful Never" in Hollywood,ca 1997
"The Urge To Burge" in Scotland 1999
"What It Means To Remember" in London 2000
"Pacific Standard Time" in Vancouver, bc 2004
"Live in Giessen" in Giessen, Germany 2006
"You Are What You Hear" in Scotland 2007Other recent recordings include "Three Piers" with the Tobermory Sax Quartet, "Rich In Knuckles" with the Raymond MacDonald Group, "Falkirk" with Barry Guy and GIO and with the debut CD by Ceilidh Minogue. Tours in 2008 include England, Germany, Canada and Sweden as well as appearances at the "Loch Shiel Chamber Music Festival" playing a new work specially written by the great Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Hofseth, a concert in NYC with George Lewis and GIO and a month of gigs in Australia with the wonderful Irish singer "Camille".
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