Barry Guy

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Now that you have heard part of his After The Rain Barry Guy is also an improviser in free jazz -

Maya Homburger/Barry Guy: Five Fizzles (Part 1)

Howard Riley, Barry Guy and Tony Oxley - Cirrus

Barry Guy - Quiescence

from "Symmetries"

Maya Recordings, Ireland 2002

Barry Guy and The London Jazz Composers - Harmos (excerpts)

Barry Guy: director, bass
Evan Parker: reeds
Mats Gustafsson: reeds
Trevor Watts: reeds
Simon Picard: reeds
Pete McPhail: reeds
Conrad Bauer: tmb
Johannes Bauer: tmb
Alan Tomlinson: tmb
Henry Lowther: tpt
Herb Robertson: tpt
Rich Laughlin: tpt
Per Åke Holmlander, tuba
Phil Wachsmann: violin
Barre Philips: bass
Paul Lytton: percussion
Lucas Niggli: percussion
Howard Riley: piano

Barry Guy New Orchestra at Jazzclub Moods Zurich (excerpts)

Barry Guy - bass, director (GB)
Agusti Fernandez - piano
Evan Parker - sax (GB)
Mats Gustafsson - sax, fluteophone (SE)
Hans Koch - sax, clarinets (CH)
Herb Robertson - trumpet (USA)
Johannes Bauer - trombone (DE)
Per Åke Holmlander - tuba (SE)
Paul Lytton - percussion (GB)
Raymond Strid - percussion (SE)

Barry Guy is one of the world's leading bass soloists and improvisers, well known as director and founder of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, also as a composer of new music for chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras has founded a new ensemble called the Barry Guy New Orchestra.
This all-star band brings together the biggest names in the world of contemporary Jazz and Improvisation from America, England, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany.
During four days the musicians performed a unique set of trios, duos, solos and finally the new piece.
Open rehearsals and workshops provided an insight into the process of creating a new ensemble and into the intriguing combination of free improvisation and composed structures.





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