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Biography - Jamie Taylor
Jamie studied at Leeds College of Music, graduating in 2000 with first class honours and receiving the Eric Kershaw Prize for Plectrum Guitar. After a further year of study, he completed his M.Mus degree, and was awarded the College Prize for Postgraduate Studies. Jamie was subsequently offered a teaching post at LCM, where he is now a senior lecturer on the college's jazz faculty. A resident of Sheffield, he has given regular workshops in the city on behalf of Sheffield Jazz.
Alongside teaching, Jamie also maintains a busy performing schedule. Jamie has worked with leading UK musicians like Richard Hawley, Alan Barnes, Jim Mullen, Steve Brown, Gary Potter, and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, made several television appearances, and is a contributor to the American magazine 'Just Jazz Guitar'. In 2005 Jamie featured at the North Wales International Jazz Guitar Festival sharing the bill with Jim Mullen, Trefor Owen, and ex-'Police' guitarist Andy Summers. His guitar playing has been featured on BBC Radio 3 on several occasions, most notably on the “Jazz Line Up” programme, when his trio made a live broadcast supporting The Mark Nightingale Quintet in May 2001. More recently (Jan 2004) on the same station, he was heard on the “Jazz Record Requests” show, accompanying vocalist Sarah Bennett.
The other members of Jamie's jazz quintet, Java, are:
Henrik Linnemann, Jamil Sheriff, Garry Jackson, and Nick Smalley
Jamie Taylor is a Hofner artist. www.hofner.com
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Jamie studied at Leeds College of Music, graduating in 2000 with first class honours and receiving the Eric Kershaw Prize for Plectrum Guitar. After a further year of study, he completed his M.Mus degree, and was awarded the College Prize for Postgraduate Studies. Jamie was subsequently offered a teaching post at LCM, where he is now a senior lecturer on the college's jazz faculty. A resident of Sheffield, he has given regular workshops in the city on behalf of Sheffield Jazz.
Alongside teaching, Jamie also maintains a busy performing schedule. Jamie has worked with leading UK musicians like Richard Hawley, Alan Barnes, Jim Mullen, Steve Brown, Gary Potter, and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, made several television appearances, and is a contributor to the American magazine 'Just Jazz Guitar'. In 2005 Jamie featured at the North Wales International Jazz Guitar Festival sharing the bill with Jim Mullen, Trefor Owen, and ex-'Police' guitarist Andy Summers. His guitar playing has been featured on BBC Radio 3 on several occasions, most notably on the “Jazz Line Up” programme, when his trio made a live broadcast supporting The Mark Nightingale Quintet in May 2001. More recently (Jan 2004) on the same station, he was heard on the “Jazz Record Requests” show, accompanying vocalist Sarah Bennett.
The other members of Jamie's jazz quintet, Java, are:
Henrik Linnemann, Jamil Sheriff, Garry Jackson, and Nick Smalley
Jamie Taylor is a Hofner artist. www.hofner.com
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