Member Since: 07/09/2007
Band Website: http://ppblogtrin.wordpress.com/ (blog)
Band Members: RECORDINGS : Ghosts, Criss Cross & Juju (Rick Simpson - piano, Mark Whitlam -drums, Olie Brice - bass), Footprints, How Deep is the Ocean (Dale Hambridge - piano, Olie Brice - bass), You Don't Know What Love is ( Olie Brice - Bass), I've never Been in Love Before, Nostalgia (Rebecca Nash - Keys, John Short - Bass, John Blakely - Drums)BANDS :FIVE SPOT : Kevin Figes - Alto/Flute, James Chadwick - Guitar, Olie Brice - Bass, Mark Whitlam - DrumsAKA FREE : Chefa Alonso - Soprano, Olie Brice - Bass, Javier Carmona - DrumsSOME..ET : (large improv ensemble) Includes Mark Hanslip, Ntshuks Bonga, Shabaka Hutchings, Alex Ward - reeds, Me, Alex Bonney, Gail Brand - brass, Hannah Marshall, Dominic Lash, Olie Brice, Alison Blunt - Strings, Alex Hawkins - Piano, Javier Carmona - DrumsGAIL BRAND QUARTET : Gail -Trombone, Me, Olie Brice - Bass, Javier Carmona - DrumsTRIO : Rebecca Nash - Piano, Emily Wright - vocalsDUOS : with Olie Brice -bass, James Chadwick - guitar, Rebecca Nash - Piano, Johnny Griffiths - AltoI also play contemporary and traditional big band stuff with GBH and Resonance Big band, Balkan music with Balkanatics, Afro/Cuban/Rock with Mankala, and reggae/funk/jazz with The Blowhards which is very silly and a lot of fun.
Influences: Dave Douglas - Booker Little - Monk - Louis Armstrong - Fred Hersch - Miles - Ornette - Don Cherry - Eric Dolphy - Woody Shaw - Drew Gress - Ravel - Elvin - Paul Motian - T.S. Eliot - Bird - Coltrane - Joe Lovano - Woody Shaw - Rich Perry - Nirvana - Kenny Wheeler - Steve Coleman - Wynton Marsalis - Adam Phillips - Lee Konitz - Charlie Haden - Tony Williams - Evan Parker - John Taylor - Wayne Shorter - Ralph Alessi - The Blessing - Brotherhood of Breath - Gerard Presencer - Tom Arthurs - Scriabin - Cannonball Adderley - Olie Brice - Donny McCaslin - Paul Bley - Tim Berne - Stan Sulzmann - Dave Holland - Freddie Hubbard - Greg Osby - Mark Turner - Gary Thomas - Ingrid Laubrock - Tony Malaby
Record Label: Unsigned