7th Jan Karen Lake and me as duo at Number 5
28th Jan Tom Bunting and me as duo at Number 5
11th Feb Jazz Gtr Club Manchester
14th Feb Karen Lake duo
18th Feb leading a trio
25th Feb Paul Lawley and Karen as trio
11th March Ritmotone at 5
- Jan 29th Manchester Jazz guitar club
- Feb 7th trio (bass+drums) function Risley Hall
- Feb 26th Manchester Jazz guitar club
- March 6th WWH + sax Rugby
- March 31st gtr duo Pizza Express
- April 24th WWH + sax Rugby
- May 26th Manchester Jazz Guitar Club
- June 12th Ashbourne Jazz trio
- June 26th Rugby Jazz Trio
- July 9th WWH at Number 5
- July 10th WWH at the Crompton
- July 18th trio including Alyson & Paul
- July 30th Ritmotone latin/jazz trio at Number 5
- August 6th with Wendy Kirkland at Number 5
- August 13th trio with Dan Martin gtr and Dave Eno sax at Number 5
- August 27th Ritmo latin/jazz trio at Number 5
- Sept 10th trio with Dan Martin gtr and Dave Eno sax at Number 5
- Sept 24th Ritmotone latin/jazz trio at Number 5
- Oct 8th trio with Paul Lawley bass and Karen Lake vocals
- Oct 15th trio at Number 5
- Oct 29th Ritmotone at Number 5
- Nov 12th duo with Paul Lawley at Number 5
- Nov 20th duo with Karen Lake at The Crucible
- Nov 22nd duo with Karen Lake
- Nov 26th Ritmotone at Number 5
- Nov 27th trio at Banks Mill
- December 10th quintet at Cubana
- December 11th duo with Karen Lake at Walnut Club
A great solo from the “After The Rain” album with Joey DeFrancesco and Elvin Jones. What do you mean you haven’t got it?!
DANTHOLOGY
1992-2008
1992 “C Major” (Johnson)
“D Major” (Johnson)
These were written and recorded for for GCSE Music exam when I was 16, they were my first attempt to write a short solo guitar piece. I have since written a couple of pieces for specific events but it’s not my forte, in fact I haven’t even owned an acoustic guitar for many years now.
Acoustic Guitar – me
1993 “Dub” (Johnson)
All done by myself on borrowed equipment from Wilmorton College, back in the days when you had to flip tapes over to get backwards tracks!
Roland D5(?) keyboard – me
Guitars – me
1994 “Untitled” (Bucknell/Johnson) by Simon Bucknell & Dan Johnson
Still not got the hang of the song titles by this point. This was recorded in an afternoon at Jyoti Mishra’s (of Whitetown fame) house. I wrote the chords and Simon did the tune and a top job of the trumpet solo. This was my first recorded attempt at playing in a jazz style.
Drums – Bernard Purdie sample album
Trumpet & Synth – Simon
Bass & Guitars – me
1998 “Chill” (Bucknell/Johnson) by Simon Bucknell & Dan Johnson
I completely forgot of this tunes existence and is one of the few we did on a home portastudio at Westbury St.
Drums – Bernard Purdie sample album
Trumpet & Synth – Simon
Bass & Guitars – me
1999(?)”Ten Thousand Years” (Hough/?) by “Scuddahay” from “Full Tilt”
On a particularly rainy night, myself, Simon, Darran and Mark drove down to Wolverhampton to the ‘Magic Garden Studios’ and recorded various bits for the album, this was my contribution. I loved the sound of the guitar on this, a beautiful reissue Rickenbacker through a sixties Vox AC15 with a bit of compression. It was one take and although not perfect had a good vibe to it.
Acoustic Guitar – John Hough
Vocals -
Electric Guitar – me
2000 “Sunset Slowdown”(Savage/Johnson) by “Aubergine”
Only 3 tracks and a live video remain of the legendary band that was Aubergine, a damn fine excuse for lots of drinking and er.. drinking really. This was recorded up in Duffield at Azimuth Studios and is a lovely memento of the times.
Vocals & Synth- Andy Savage
Bass – Ben Johnson
Drums – Mike Smith
Ac & El Guitars – me
“Medieval Stuff” (Johnson)
Stylistically different to anything else I’d done previously (or since), from the same session I recorded Simon and Carolines wedding song I recorded this, part improvised, I had an idea for a middle section but I didn’t play it so I made the mid section up.
2003 “Track One”(Wraight) by “Pete Wraights All Stars” from “Travellers Rest Demo”
This track was from an aborted album which never saw the light of day unfortunately. It was great fun playing with this combo and I was extremely honoured to played a couple of live gigs with Dave O’Higgins in this setting. My only playing with a genuine UK jazz legend!
Organ – Pete Wraight
Bass – Willy Watts
Drums – Mick
Sax – Dave Eno
Trombone – Graham
2006 “Nobody Does It Better”
An acoustic arrangement I did of the bond theme, a great tune and seems to sit quite well on guitar. Recorded by Jyoti Mishra as a demo.
Ac Gtr – me
2007 “Gone With The Wind” by Alyson Dixon & Dan Johnson recorded live at 5 Lamps.
I really enjoyed these gigs and I’ll hope to record an album one day which does the whole thing justice. We still gig once in a while but usually with the addition of bass and/or sax these days.
2008 “There Will Never Be Another You” Paul Lawley & Dan Johnson recorded live at Graze
I really enjoyed the gigs we did at this restaurant , we played standards but improvised within the structure enough to keep it interesting. We never knew what was going to happen and never practiced but more often than not it worked well.
Bass – Paul Lawley
El Gtr – me
2008 “Blue In Green” (Davis) by “Watch What Happens” recorded live at Graze
The Miles Davis classic given the mellow twin guitar treatment. Always challenging to try and play less, I’ve not done a good job yet so I guess I’ll carry on trying.
El Gtr – Dan Martin (chords)
El Gtr – me (widdle)
Completed and uploaded some new jazz guitar vids for the shop. Drop by and leave a comment/make friends with us!
Tunes are coming together bit by bit,
“Badgers Bridge”
“Flirtatious”
“Green Tune”
And possible covers
“Mr Syms” (Coltrane)
“Cousin Mary” (Coltrane)
“Don’t You Worry About a Thing” (Wonder)
“The Theme” (Davis)
Need to write/finish 3 more originals I think.
- Jan 18th WWH White Hart
- Feb 15th WWH White Hart
- March 1st WWH private function Mickleover
- March 15th quartet Dance centre
- March 20th WWH Beeston
- March 21st WWH White Hart
- April 18th WWW White Hart
- April 19th WWH private function Spondon
- April 23rd WWH Derbyshire
- April 25th WWH Graze
- April 26th WWH Graze
- May 2nd Graze duo
- May 10th WWH Graze
- May 16th WWH White Hart
- May 21st WWH Shottle Hall
- May 23rd WWH Graze
- May 29th quartet
- May 30th WWH Graze
- June 4th Solo Nottingham
- June 6th WWH Graze
- June 7th with Paul Lawley on bass
- June 20th WWH White Hart
- June 21st with Paul Lawley on bass
- June 27th WWH at Graze
- June 28th WWH garden party Leics
- July 11th WWH Graze
- July 18th WWH Graze
- July 19th with Paul Lawley Graze
- July 25th WWH White Hart
- July 27th WWH Private party Littleover
- Aug 1st WWH Graze
- Aug 2nd WWH Graze
- Aug 9th quartet
- Aug 15th WWH White Hart
- Aug 17th quintet
- Aug 22nd trio Graze
- Aug 23rd quartet
- Aug 30th trio Graze
- Sept 5th duo Graze
- Sept 12th WWH Graze
- Sept 19th duo Graze
- Sept 20th duo Graze
- Sept 26th duo Graze
- Oct 4th duo Graze
- Oct 7th WWH Bishop Blaise
- Oct 17th Graze
- Oct 21st WWH Bishop Blaise
- Oct 25th WWH Graze
- Oct 26th WWH wedding
- Nov 1st gtr duo Graze
- Nov 4th WWH Bishop Blaise
- Nov 28th WWH Graze
As found on the album “Live at The Lighthouse” by Elvin Jones. This album has caught my ear recently with it’s great free blowing and powerful execution. I’m still absorbing it, but really wanted to learn the head to this straight away, so I transcribed it as I’m still waiting for the Lighthouse Omnibook to tun up. Enjoy
