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Sunday September 2nd.

Jim Mullen with The Neil Burns Trio

       Legendary guitarist Jim Mullen is a multi-award winning musician with a unique jazz style and sound, who is regarded as the high priest of the instrument by most young jazz guitarists. His quartet was in existence for six years from 1996 and is one of the most powerful ever to appear on the British jazz scene. Jim first came to prominence playing with The Average White Band, then achieved jazz fame in 1975 with Dick Morrissey in Morrissey-Mullen, which performed to great acclaim for many years until 1991, when Dick's health failed. Jim has played and recorded with, among others, Mose Allison, Joanna Eden, Tam White, Claire Martin, Mike Carr, Jimmy Witherspoon, Dave O'Higgins, Georgie Fame & Frank Holder. Mullen has recorded as part of The Allstars, a collective of session musicians, on their Paul McCartney-produced album 'All About the Music'.
Neil Burns is one of the finest guitarist to emerge in the West Country in recent years. He was born in Scotland near Glasgow. He started playing the guitar at the age of nine and in his teens he was a member of Devon Youth Jazz orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland. He started playing professionally in his late teens before attending Middlesex University to study jazz where he graduated with an honours degree in Jazz (BA Music). He has toured all over Europe and the UK with the Pete Allen jazz band, played at European jazz festivals in many countries including Holland, France, Denmark and Germany and recorded two albums with the band.
Neil is now in great demand as an accompanist for many visiting star musicians from the UK and the USA and has played with many renowned musicians including Jacquie Dankworth, Simon Spillet, Alex Garnett, Dave Newton, Mark Bassey, Carol Sudhalter (USA), Steve Waterman. Zoe Rahman, Damon Brown, Steve Watts, Jim Mullen and most recently Clare Teal in the Swing Machine Jazz Orchestra.

The Trio is completed by Kevin Sanders and Coach York.
Kevin is a fine musician well known to Plymouth Jazz Club audiences as bass player in various West Country groups including Martin Dale's Quartet. He has played with a vast number of leading British and foreign musicians and across the world from Brussels to Broadway.
Coach York provides a swinging and driving beat for the group. He is possibly the busiest drummer in the West Country and is also a regular member of the Craig Milverton Trio.

An evening of top class swinging jazz standards from a top-rated trumpeter backed by a terrific Trio. Not to be missed!

                                        

Jim Mullen                                                                Neil Burns


             

Kevin Sanders                              Coach York