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Alison Rayner

Born: September 7, 1952

Alison Rayner is an award winning bassist and composer from the UK.

The 2019 recipient of an Ivor Novello Composer Award and runner-up ‘Double Bass’ player in the British Jazz Awards for both 2018 and 2019, Rayner has had an extensive career playing jazz and other contemporary styles since the mid-70s, recording and touring internationally with critically acclaimed Latin/jazz group The Guest Stars throughout the 80s.

Performing regularly throughout the UK and Europe, she leads ARQ, her contemporary jazz quintet, described as ‘a beautifully integrated band’ **** by Dave Gelly in the Observer. ARQ’s third ARQ album ‘Short Stories’ was released to critical acclaim late 2019, receiving extensive airplay and reaching #1 in the Amazon Jazz Chart. ARQ won ‘Ensemble of the Year’ in the prestigious 2018 Parliamentary Jazz Awards and were shortlisted in the ‘Small Group’ category of the 2018 British Jazz Awards.

Alison Rayner Quintet: Short Stories

by Chris May
March 4, 2020

The Alison Rayner Quintet's third album is good medicine. Despite the sad events which inspired it, about which more in a moment, Short Stories tells its tales through strong melodies, sinewy rhythms and luminous solos, is by turns tender and exuberant, has an uplifting narrative arc, and simply makes you feel better for listening to it. ...

Short Stories

By Alison Rayner

Label: Blow the Fuse
Released: 2019
Track listing: Croajingolong Bushwalk; Here And Now; There Is A Crack In Everything; Buster Breaks A Beat; A Braw Boy; Life Lived Wide; Colloquy; Seeing Around Corners.