Gary Boyle

Gary Winston Boyle (born 24 November 1941) is a British jazz fusion guitarist.

Biography

Boyle was born in Patna, Bihar, India, on 24 November 1941.[1] He attended the Leeds College of Music in the early 1960s and then joined the folk-rock band Eclection.[1] He also played in Dusty Springfield's band in the mid-1960s, and recorded with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll.[1] In the early 1970s he worked as a session musician with musicians Keith Tippett, Mike Gibbs, Mike Westbrook, Stomu Yamashta, Bert Jansch and Norma Winstone.[1]

In 1973, Boyle founded the jazz fusion band Isotope with Jeff Clyne (bass), Brian Miller (keyboards) and Nigel Morris (drums).[1] This line-up gigged around the United Kingdom extensively.[2]

Discography

With Isotope

  • Isotope - 1974
  • Illusion - 1974 (re-issued in 2011 by Cherry Red Records, Esoteric Recordings Label)
  • Deep End - 1976
  • Isotope & Gary Boyle: Live at the BBC - 2004
  • Golden Section - 2008

Under his name
  • The Dancer (Montreux Jazz/Pop Award) - 1978
  • Electric Glide - 1978
  • Step Out - 1981
  • Friday Night Again - 1986
  • Triple Echo - 1994
  • Games - 2003

Other Projects "Sketch" with Maggie Boyle and Dave Bowie CD 2007

gollark: If you want low power, you can strictly speaking just run everything on a RPi, very slowly.
gollark: *has little E3 tower server*
gollark: I mean, if you can get one *at all*, yes.
gollark: This is madness.
gollark: All you need is a 1MHz single-core and 640KB of memory.

References
  1. Gary Boyle at AllMusic
  2. Liner notes to "Golden Section"
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