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Judy Mewburn ( Judes) who runs the Gallery Events
The Musicians
Sandy Shearer
The backbone of the Quartet, and the man without whom we wouldn't have any swing at all, double bass player, Sandy, is also a jazz guitarist, bass guitarist and singer. He is a very accomplished musician and teacher of jazz, gigging on the British jazz scene with several different bands. Sandy is a gentle giant of a man with a big sense of humour and a big bass sound.
He calls his bass Gladys.
Alex Bradley
First learning cello, aged seven, at the St. Paul Cathedral School, Alex moved on to my old Fender Stratocaster soon after, and at the age of 15, played in a new wave Punk band, Trafalgar, at the Rock Against Racism concert, appropriately, in Trafalgar Square and at the Isle of White, also releasing a single.
Alex is an accomplished musician and composer, playing guitar, keyboards and, unfortunately, drums, producing music for fashion shows in New York and Milan amongst other things. A recent graduate of UCL, his ambition is to make music his life. So far, so good.
Geoff Duckworth
I've known Geoff for more years than he or I care to remember, since we both played in a recording band back in the seventies with singer/songwriter, Tony Broadbent. Geoff had been a member of Hot Chocolate and toured with the Rocky Horror Show at about the same time and, like Sandy, regularly gigs on the British Jazz scene, completing 9 different gigs in July this year alone.
Geoff is an incredibly eloquent and versatile musician and is the real power behind the quartet. He's a master of the flute, clarinet, tenor, soprano and alto saxes, not to mention a Japanese bamboo flute, whose name escapes me. I'm sure Geoff could work magic with anything he can blow into. I'd love to hear what he could do with a milk bottle.
Neal.
Neal Bradley
Me? Like the others, I just love music, especially the guitar, which I've been playing since the age of 11. In the picture, I'm playing a steel strung classical style guitar made by Stuart Mewburn, a luthier who produces some of the best acoustic guitars I've ever heard.
http://www.mewburnguitars.com/
I have many jazz guitar heroes. Among them, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Bireli Lagrene, John Mc Laughlin, Paco De Lucia, (essentially, a Flamenco guitarist) Gonzalo Bergara, Andre Moinard, Fapy Lafertin, Robin Nolan, John Schofield, Jim Hall, Sylvain Luc, and, of course, the great Django Reinhardt, whom I first heard also at the age of 11.
It's a real Privilege for me to play with the 3 fine musicians above. Long may it continue.
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Dulwich Picture Gallery 2012
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Judy Mewburn ( Judes) who runs the Gallery Events
About Me
- Neal Bradley,
- I’m a graphic designer, art director, photographer, writer and musician - not in any particular order. I recently formed a Swing Jazz Quartet based around music from the era of the great Django Reinhardt, with myself and Alex Bradley, guitars, Sandy Shearer, double bass and Geoff Duckworth, tenor and soprano saxophones. Check us out:http://lacaravaneswingquartet.blogspot.com/
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