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Andy Champion

About Me

Andy started playing the Bass Guitar at the age of 11 and upon leaving school at 16 he enrolled at Newcastle College to study Jazz, Popular and Commercial Music. It was during his time there that he began to work professionally as a Bass player and Drummer with a number of bands, playing various styles of music, throughout the UK and Europe.
Some years later he took up the Double Bass and became heavily involved in the North-East jazz and improvised music scene, and in 2004 was invited to join the Voice Of The North Jazz Orchestra under the direction of John Warren; working with guest musicians Andy Sheppard, Tim Garland, Steve Waterman and Bob Mintzer to name a few.
Most recently Andy has been exploring the concept of solo Bass; utilising 'extended techniques', outboard effects and loops. This has led him to co-found the duo chikon with Dave Black , an experiment in combining the traditional instrumentation of the Double Bass/Bass Guitar with modern electronics and computer software within free improvisation.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/07/2006
Band Members: Here's some of the bands/musicians I work with on a regular basis-
Me - solo bass
Voice of the North Jazz Orchestra
John Warren's Splinter Group
Chikon
Zoe Gilby Quintet
Noel Dennis Quartet
Andy Champion + Graeme Wilson
Ruth Lambert Quartet
Smoove
Influences: Slayer/Kate Bush/Michael Formanek/Thelonious Monk/Cliff Burton/John Bonham/Iron Maiden/Charles Mingus/John Zorn/70's Kiss/Led Zeppelin/Tim Berne/Mike Patton/Dave Lombardo/Ornette Coleman/Anthrax/Budgie/ Duran Duran/John Coltrane/Danzig/70's Yes/William Parker/Herbie Hancock/Burke Shelley/first 2 Weather Report albums/The Beatles/Diamond Head/Mark Dresser/Steve Harris/Paul Chambers/80's Metallica/Tony Falanga/Fantomas/Albert Ayler/Bob Dylan/Scott LaFaro/Adrian Smith/Megadeth/Dave Douglas/Slayer(again)
Sounds Like: None of the above.

Record Label: NIMO/JazzAction
Type of Label: Indie

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