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Jamie Taylor
Jamie Taylor is a UK based jazz guitarist and bandleader, who also lectures in jazz guitar at the UK's largest music and drama school, Leeds Conservatoire.
About Me
Hofner Artist Jamie Taylor is a jazz guitarist
based in the North of England.
He is also a principal lecturer at Leeds
Conservatoire (the UK’s largest music and
drama school), teaching jazz guitar
and musicianship on the BA Hons degree
programme, for which he was Course
Leader between 2007-2009.
Today, Jamie gives performances,
masterclasses and workshops around the UK,
and also offers private guitar lessons.
Jamie maintains a busy performing schedule,
and has worked with leading musicians across
a range of styles, such as Steve Fishwick,
Sebastiaan DeKrom, Sheryl Bailey, John
Stowell, Roni Ben-Hur, John Goldsby, Wayne
Escoffery, Kate Williams, Dave Whitford,
Jeremy Brown, Steve Watts, Andrea DiBiase,
Pete Whittaker, Richard Iles, Adrian Ingram,
Alan Barnes, Jim Mullen, Baptiste Herbin, Laura
Jurd, Steve Brown, Tori Freestone, Reuben
Fowler, David Lyttle, Tom Harrison, Carlos
Lopez-Real, Gary Potter, Richard Hawley, and
The Pigeon Detectives.
His latest project is the band Trio JDM” led by
drummer Dave Walsh and featuring organist
Martin Longhawn. The group’s debut album
“Fast Corners” will be released on 26th
November 2023, accompanying by a short tour.
In September 2017, Jamie also toured the UK
as a member of the jazz-rock group ”Perpetual
Motion Machine.
Having taught jazz exclusively, and at
conservatoire level, for more than fourteen
years, Jamie is now one the country’s
most experienced tutors in the idiom, and many
of his former students
have now gone on to successful careers of their
own; some of these include members of Roller
Trio, Bryan Ferry Orchestra, Led Bib, Submotion
Orchestra, Everything Everything, The 1975,
and Sony/EMI artist Bruno Major. Thanks to the
possibilities of the internet, Jamie now has
students all over the world. He is a featured
“master” on the internationally
respected website Mike’s Masterclasses, where
other masters include
Lorne Lofsky, Paul Bollenbeck, Sheryl Bailey,
John Stowell, and Steve
Herberman amongst others.
Jamie was himself a student at Leeds
Conservatoire (then Leeds College of Music),
graduating in 2000 with first class honours and
receiving the Eric
Kershaw Prize for Plectrum Guitar. After a
further year of study, he
completed his M.Mus degree, and was
awarded the College Prize for
Postgraduate Studies.
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