Gary Crosby (musician)

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Gary Crosby

Gary Crosby (born January 26, 1955 in London ) is a British modern jazz bassist . He is considered one of the leading bass players in the country.

Live and act

Crosby, a nephew of Ernest Ranglin , received trumpet lessons from the age of thirteen before switching to the double bass ; from 1974 he took lessons from Peter Ind .

He first played with Ed Bentley and Ray Carless. In the early 1980s he was a founding member of the big band Jazz Warriors . Since then he has toured Europe with Courtney Pine , Steve Williamson , Orphy Robinson and Denys Baptiste , but also performed with traveling musicians such as Larry Coryell , Art Farmer , Gary Bartz and Sonny Fortune . He leads his bands Nu Troop and Jazz Jamaica (including the Jazz Jamaica All Stars ), with whom he has also performed at international festivals. In 1991 he founded Tomorrow's Warriors , which serve to train young talent, and in 1997 the label Dune Records . He also recorded with John Stevens .

Prizes and awards

In 2007, Crosby received a BBC Jazz Award for his services to jazz ; for his coherent contribution to the music of Jamaica he was inducted into the Jamaica Hall of Fame at the 2002 Ocho Rios Jazz Festival . In 2009 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his musical merits . He received the 2012 Parliamentary Award for Jazz Education for his work with the Tomorrow's Warriers . In 2018 he was awarded the Queen's Medal for Music ; he is the first jazz musician to receive this honor.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Ind: Wave Jazz . Retrieved July 9, 2011.
  2. ↑ Meeting (Guardian)
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 59090, HMSO, London, June 13, 2009, p. 10 ( PDF , English).
  4. ^ Gary Crosby Receives Queen's Medal of Music
personal data
SURNAME Crosby, Gary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH London