Steve Berry (musician)

Stephen John "Steve" Berry (born August 24, 1957 in Gosport , England ) is a British bassist and cellist of the Modern Creative .

Steve Berry's grandfather was a drummer in a Dixieland band. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music in 1983/84 and worked with local bands before becoming a founding member of the big band Loose Tubes in 1984 . He wrote some compositions and arrangements for the band project. From 1987 to 1991 he had a trio with Mark Lockheart and Peter Fairclough ; his album Trio was named one of the ten best albums of the year by The Guardian in 1998 . In 1991 and again in 1997 he worked in Mike Westbrook's Big Band ( The Orchestra of Smith's Academy and Glad Day ). Since 1997 he has been working with the Jam Factory formation . Berry has also worked on recordings of Django Bates (as a cellist), Ian Carr , Nikki Iles , Billy Jenkins and is also active as a music teacher for bass and cello playing at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts , also in Improvisation workshops.

Steve Berry is not to be confused with the bass trombonist of the same name who played with Ernest Dawkins , the Shadow Vignettes, and Malachi Thompson .

Discographic notes

• Trio (1988)
• Snap - Foolish Hearts (1997, ed. 2003)
• Red Sky (1999)
• Vox Jam (2000)
• Fortune Heights (2003)
• In an Ideal World (2004)

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• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

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