Barry Guy
Barry Guy is an innovative double bass player and composer whose creative diversity in the fields of Jazz improvisation, solo recitals, chamber and orchestral performance is the outcome both of an unusually varied training and a zest for experimentation, underpinned by a dedication to the double bass and the ideal of musical communication.
Between the early Seventies and mid Nineties Barry Guy held principal bass position in various orchestras including The Orchestra of St.John’s Smith Square, City of London Sinfonia, Monteverdi Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music, Kent Opera and The London Classical Players. During these years he was also active in the European Improvised Scene.
He is founder and Artistic Director of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra for which he has written several extended works with recordings of the following: Ode (Incus 1972 and re-released on Intakt 1996), Stringer (FMP 1980), Polyhymnia on ZURICH CONCERTS (Intakt 1988), Harmos (Intakt 1989), Double Trouble (Intakt 1990), Theoria (Intakt 1992) with the Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer as soloist, Portraits (Intakt 1994) and Three Pieces for Orchestra (Intakt 1997).
His concert works have been widely performed and his skilful and inventive writing has resulted in an exceptional series of compositions: Flagwalk (1983), The Eye of Silence (1988), Look Up! (1990), After the Rain (1992), Bird Gong Game (1992), Fallingwater (1996), Redshift (1998), Remembered Earth (1999), Nasca Lines (2001), Inachis (2002), Folio (2002) and Anaklasis (2003).
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- Nox by John Sharpe
- One for My Baby and One More for the Bass by Troy Dostert
- That Time by John Sharpe
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- Concert In Vilnius by John Sharpe
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- Barry Guy's Blue Shroud Band at Aghavannagh Barracks
- Not Two...But Twenty! Festival
- Barry Guy & Izumi Kimura At The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
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- Deep Memory by Neri Pollastri
November 15, 2014
The world premiere of Barry Guy's new composition "The Blue Shroud"
March 01, 2011
Agusti Fernandez, Barry Guy and Ramon Lopez - Morning Glory (Maya,...