Geoff Gascoyne is one of the UK’s leading jazz bass players, composers, arrangers and band leaders. A master of the upright and electric bass, Geoff brings a musical dexterity and sense of time to his playing. Geoff’s jazz band features some of Britain's best musicians and plays as a jazz trio or quartet and often also features a jazz vocalist such as his talented wife Trudy Kerr.
Following six years of touring and recoding with jazz sensation Jamie Callum, 2009 saw Geoff Gascoyne deliver his new album, ‘Pop-Bop’. The recording and ensuing tour features Geoff's favourite pop songs from the last 30 years arranged for a jazz quartet. It features the great jazz musician Jim Mullen on guitar, fellow Cullum collaborator Sebastiaan de Krom on the drums and introduces the fiery young Australian alto sax player Graeme Blevins.
A Geoff Gascoyne performance is a journey through musical history and may feature songs from ‘Pop-Bop’ by influences as diverse as The Stylistics, James Taylor, Diana Ross, Cat Stevens, Earth Wind and Fire, and Take That through to his original compositions and jazz classics.
Geoff Gascoyne was born in Nottingham, England, on November 23rd 1963. In1981 he joined his first professional group and by 1988 he had began studying jazz music. In 1990 he joined the group 'Everything But The Girl', an association lasting for three years and included touing world and the recording of the album 'Worldwide' in 1991. 1994 saw another world tour with the award winning 'Hip Hop-Jazz-Rap group, 'US3'.
Geoff's early jazz related work was playing electric bass in the groups lead by Jim Mullen and Ian Shaw, amongst others, and in 1993, together with guitarist Malcolm MacFarlane he founded his first group 'Wabash.' Since the mid 1990s Geoff Gascoyne has toured, recorded, arranged and released a series of his own albums. He has worked with a host of illustrious names in the Jazz and Music industry. This includes working with Georgie Fame since 1995, Van Morrison, Guy Barker’s International Group, James McMillan, Moses Molelekwa, Mike Flowers Pops, Ian Shaw, Opera singer Sally Burgess, Peter Churchill, Ed Jones Quintet, Bill Bruford’s ‘Earthworks’, Lisa Stansfield, The Britten Sinfonia, Dianne Reeves, Ben Sidran, Norma Winstone, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Dave Kov, Peter White, Trudy Kerr, Cedar Walton, Mulgrew Miller, Opera singer Willard White, Gareth Williams, Ben Castle and British Jazz Singer Claire Martin.
Geoff has appeared at major venues around the world, played in front of Prince Charles at Highgrove, and appeared countless times at London’s Ronnie Scott’s and Europe’s leading Jazz venues. From 2002 for six years Geoff worked exclusively with Jamie Cullum, recording three albums and touring the globe many times. In 2006 Geoff released his 5th CD Keep it to Yourself for candid records and toured the UK with a 10 piece band that included his Jazz Quartet, a classical string Quartet and Jamie Cullum as a sideman. Geoff Gascoyne’s 2009 release of his 6th CD saw him return to the jazz quartet format featuring the great guitarist Jim Mullen and Aussie Altoist Graeme Blevins.
