Jazz Articles about Patrick Boyle

Patrick Boyle: Hold Out

by Budd Kopman
April 27, 2006

Patrick Boyle likes to think about music as well as play it. The versatile multi-instrumentalist plays not only trumpet and flugelhorn, but also guitar, dobro, electric bass, ukele and harmonica. On Hold Out, however, he sticks to the brass. He also composed most of the tunes, except Thelonious Monk's “Nutty" and a pop tune, “Always On My Mind," which he arranged. While his writing about music can be an intensely serious affair (he has posted his thesis ...