Gary Potter is regarded by many as one of the world’s finest jazz and country guitarists, enjoying high acclaim in the USA, Australia and Europe. His interest in jazz began when, as a 15 year old he first heard a Django Reinhardt recording. Read More

Born in Rochdale, Becky Langan can best be described as a percussive fingerstyle guitarist who employs a combination of extended techniques on the acoustic guitar. She employs the use of unique alternative tunings, two-handed tapping, percussive effects and natural harmonic melodies drawn from her inspirations Andy McKee, Jon Gomm, Maneli Jamal and Thomas Leeb.

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Rob Luft is an award-winning 24-year-old musician from London who has been described as one of the UK’s most prominent and talented young contemporary jazz guitarists. Rob was the recipient of the 2016 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize and a prize winner in the 2016 Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition. His debut album, “Riser”, was released in July 2017.

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Ben Crosland began playing the drums at the age of thirteen, taking up the guitar a year later: he was much influenced by the fertile British pop music scene of the ’60’s. At school, he studied with a remarkable teacher called Victor Brook ( Bach in German!). Brook taught Ben to read music on the guitar, even though he, Brook, did not play the instrument, and inspired Ben by writing out, for example, guitar accompaniments for Handel Flute Sonatas in chord symbols. Read More

Darren Dutson-Bromley studied both jazz and classical guitar in Leeds and has worked professionally as a performer ever since. In 1996 he worked for the Princes Trust where he performed with both Prince Charles and Jools Holland, which led to a number of television appearances.

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Andy Hulme is a former student of Trefor Owen having studied with him at Wigan and Leigh College. Andy has given accomplished performances alongside Trefor and American jazz legends at North Wales International Jazz Guitar Festivals, which have proved him to be among the finest of today’s UK players. Andy is a member of the acclaimed jazz groups Shades of Shearing, BBQ and the Brownfield/Byrne Hot Six.

Adrian spent his formative years listening to the guitar and organ groups of the 1960s

He has had a successful guitar playing, and teaching, career including 15 years as Senior Lecturer in Jazz Guitar (CLCM), 14 jazz guitar related publications, 7 cds and 5 dvds, as well as prestigious gigs like; The Flamingo, The Marquee and Ronnie Scotts (London), The Zinc Bar, Birdland and Long Island guitar shows (NY), NAMM and John Pisano’s Guitar Nights (LA).

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Hayden Minett studied at Bretton Hall, and has taught guitar at the University of Leeds for many years, as well as privately. He has performed with many bands playing live music from Zappa covers to Jazz standards, and demonstrates at shows like Music Live and the London Guitar Show. Read More

Jeremy Platt is a multi instrumentalist who is active in the field of jazz and jazz related music. He is first call on many projects and played keyboards on Illum Sphere’s debut album Ghosts of Then and Now.

His current project is the piano trio “Jazz Soul Moment”.

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After playing in folk, rock, blues and function bands from the 60s to the 90s, Ian finally settled down to his first love of jazz guitar and through that met Paul, a graduate of Leeds College of Music. Paul, who pursues a career in music teaching in Newcastle, also has the same eclectic tastes in music. Together they enjoy playing a mixture of standards and quirky modern tunes carefully arranged for 13 strings! Carol Brown’s beautiful vocals add an extra, soulful, dimension which gives the trio it’s unique sound.