Ant Law

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Ant Law (born November 15, 1983 ) is a British jazz musician ( guitar , composition ). The Guardian described him as an “innovator”, the blog Music Radar as one of the most original voices of the jazz guitar of his generation.

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Law was born in the Middle East, at the time his parents were working as a teacher in Saudi Arabia , where he lived until he was 16 years old. In his youth he was interested in rock music , such as Stevie Ray Vaughan . He had music lessons (guitar, piano) in childhood and youth and studied at Edinburgh University and Berklee College of Music . From the 2000s he worked in the British jazz scene a. a. with the singer Lorna Reid, with whom the first recordings were made around 2008 ( Gypsy in My Soul ). In the following years he played in various musical projects with the saxophonist Tim Garland ( Somgs to the North Sky 2014) and in the formation Particle . With Michael Chillingworth (saxophone), John Turville (piano), Tom Farmer (bass) and James Maddren (drums) he recorded his debut album Entanglement (33 Records, 2013); In 2015, the production Zero Sum World followed on Whirlwind Recordings, which received numerous positive reviews. In 2016 he toured with the Art of Rhythm Trio , with Matt Ridley (bass) and Asaf Sirkis (drums and Konnakol); currently (2018) he plays in the HLK Trio, with Steve Lehman and Evelyn Glennie . Law wrote the textbook 3rd Millennium Guitar: An Introduction to Perfect 4th Tuning . Law lives in London.

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  1. ↑ a b c Ant Law. All About Jazz , February 8, 2017, accessed March 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Danny Ilett: Ant Law talks jazz guitar, SRV and Zero Sum World. Music Radar, May 30, 2015, accessed February 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 24, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Law, Ant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1983