Dudley Phillips

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Dudley Phillips (born June 9, 1960 in Maidenhead ) is a British jazz and fusion musician ( double bass , bass guitar ).

Live and act

Phillips, bass-playing initially self-taught taught, visited in 1979, the Guildhall School of Music and began with such diverse musicians like the trombonist Annie Whitehead , saxophonist Tim Whitehead , drummer Richard Bailey and vibraphonist Robinson Orphy record and play . In 1992 he founded the jazz group Perfect Houseplants with pianist Huw Warren , saxophonist Mark Lockheart and drummer Martin France , with whom he released six albums.

Philipps continued to work with Andy Sheppard , Billy Cobham , Jim Mullen , Iain Ballamy , Graham Collier , Steve Lodder, and Martin Speake . He has toured internationally with Bill Withers , Mica Paris , Womack & Womack , Mark Knopfler and Loreena McKennitt and has also been on recordings of Ryder , Robert Wyatt , Cedar Walton , Colin Towns , Marc Almond , John Harle , Tim Robbins , Amy Winehouse , Jacqui Dankworth , Ayub Ogada, Susheela Raman and Yazz Ahmed . He also accompanied musicians such as Anja Garbarek and Sophie B. Hawkins . In the field of world music he has performed with Sibongile Kumalo, Amadou & Mariam , Mustapha Bukbu, Cibelle, Hossam Ramzy , Chonchi Heredia, Tunde Jegede and the Saurang Orchestra of Surinder Sandhu and in the field of folk with June Tabor , Mark Nevin, Mary Coughlan , Eddie Reader and singer-songwriter Adam Masterson. He also worked with Alexander Bălănescu , the Almeida Ensemble and the composers Stephen Warbeck , Kevin Sargent and Will Gregory.

Under his own name, Dudley first presented the album Life without Trousers ; The album BASSheARTMANtra followed in 2017 (recorded without other musicians) . As a songwriter he worked for Mônica Vasconcelos , the Orlando Consort , Perfect Houseplants and Filomena Campus. He is visiting professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the Guildhall School of Music and Middlesex University .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andy Gregory The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 London 2002, p. 404
personal data
SURNAME Phillips, Dudley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz and fusion musician (double bass, electric bass)
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Maidenhead