THE NEW JAVA ALBUM IS NOW FINISHED AND WILL BE COMING OUT ON GLP SOMETIME IN THE COMING MONTHS. WATCH THIS SPACE...!
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Jamie Taylor is a Hofner artist:
www.hofner.com
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Jamie is Course Leader for Jazz at Leeds College of Music (the UK's largest conservatoire), where he is also a senior lecturer on the jazz faculty. www.lcm.ac.uk He has worked with leading UK jazz musicians like Alan Barnes, Jim Mullen, Steve Brown, Gary Potter, and F-IRE Collective's Carlos Lopez-Real. In the field of popular music he has contributed to projects involving Mercury Music Prize nominee Richard Hawley, and Leeds-based indie band "The Pigeon Detectives" - this last one as part of
"Andy Hillier's Hot Jazz Aces" , a Dixieland band in which Jamie is very proud to play the banjo (no shame in that whatsoever!). Jamie has also played with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, made several television appearances, and contributed to the American magazine 'Just Jazz Guitar'. In 2005 Jamie featured at the North Wales International Jazz Guitar Festival sharing the bill with Jim Mullen, Trefor Owen, and ex-'Police' guitarist Andy Summers.
Java was formed in 2003, with pianist Jamil Sheriff, bassist Garry Jackson, and percussionist Nick Smalley completing the line up. Four of the members are Leeds College of Music alumni; today, Jamil Sheriff, Garry Jackson, and Jamie Taylor are on the college's jazz faculty. Java released its debut CD "Anywhere But Here..." in late 2004, to considerable acclaim. Java appeared at the Starbucks Manchester Jazz Festival in July 2005, and the Scarborough Jazz Festival in September of the same year. The group is about to release a second CD.
"Java (is) a tight combo led by Jamie Taylor, a guitarist with a pleasant ruminative style. Possibly the most enjoyable jazz concert [Burton Agnes Jazz Festival] I have ever attended..."
The Independent, Aug '07
"Enormously impressive debut from this quartet of LCM graduates... Taylor's playing is full of ideas with a strong sense of direction, and in pianist Jamil Sheriff he has a partner of comparable inventiveness"
- Jazz UK, Jan '05
"The complex, intricate fingerstyle...is reminiscent of folk guitar, in a good way. Something original is going on here."
- Just Jazz Guitar (USA), Mar '06