Dudley Phillips- bassist
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I play electric, acoustic fretless, and double bass, plus mandolin and guitar, and I work in the fields of jazz, folk, contemporary songwriting and 'world' music [not a term that has much meaning]. It's lazy putting music into categories, people figure stuff out for themselves...if its good, its good. All the interesting stuff can't be categorised!

  I'm proud to be releasing...
   
   My New Album - 'Crayon Scrawl' out 29/11/24, my most ambitious solo release.
On all eight original compositions I play fretless acoustic bass, plus mandolin on four tracks and odd bits of guitar/percussion. It features an international line up -
      UK/Italian John Parricelli on steel string acoustic and electric gtrs, Ric Bolton on nylon string and electric gtrs, and Rod Youngs from Washington DC on drums . 
      On four tracks we're joined by Canadian Hugh Marsh electric violin, British/Bahraini Yazz Ahmed trumpet and flugelhorn, Syrian Rihab Azar oud, and George Crowley ​bass clarinet.
 
  You can buy a physical CD [they're back!]with download, or download only, from my dudleyphillips.bandcamp site:
                                  https://dudleyphillips.bandcamp.com/album/crayon-scrawl
                             
              Thank you for supporting me. 
​You can also stream it for free via:

'Dudley Phillips' artist page on Spotify, or Youtube music, Soundcloud, Deezer, Amazon, Apple music music, iTunes - any streaming platform.

On Spotify you'll also find my two previous two solo albums -
'BASSheARTMANtra,' a collection of solo looped compositions and songs, sung by myself w/ Ian Thomas, drums on five tracks [also for sale on bandcamp], and
'Life Without Trousers', a trio album with Carl Orr guitars and Nic France drums. All compositions by myself.

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      I’m very excited to be playing on:
 The new Yazz Ahmed album, ' A Paradise in the Hold' released 28/02/25 on Night Time Stories label.
                      I played on two previous Yazz releases - 'La Saboteuse' and 'Shoal of Souls' (Naim)

    I'm proud to have co-founded the award winning band Perfect Houseplants together with Huw Warren, Mark Lockheart and Martin France. Six albums to date [watch this space...] featuring many of my compositions:
        'Perfect Houseplants,' 'Clec', 'New Folk Songs', 'Snap Clatter','Extempore' and 'Extempore II' [last two with The Orlando Consort].

   And recent projects:


             Loreena McKennitt- 'Lost Souls' [Canadian Billboard Top 20 album] and 'Live at the Royal Albert Hall' albums

  Susheela Raman - 'Ghost Gamelan' album [Le Monde and Guardian top ten world music albums of 2018]
                     
             Mark Knopfler- 'Live in Berlin' [100M views- official MK YouTube channel], and 'Live in Zurich' [Sky Arts]
               
 Andy Sheppard Quartet East band, and 'Moving Image' album [Andy Sheppard/Steve Lodder]
 
             Huw Warren- 'Everything in Between' and ' A Barrel Organ far from Home' albums.  

June Tabor- Five albums on Topic/Hannibal Records inc. 'Against the Streams','Aleyn' and 'Angel Tiger'
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             John Parricelli- 'Alba' album

 Anja Garbarek - Soundtrack for 'Angela' [Dir. Luc Besson]

            Orphy Robinson- 'When Tomorrow Comes' and 'The Vibes Describes' [Blue Note International] albums, plus gigs in Morocco with Gnawa star Mustafa Bakbou
                   
Monica Vasconcelos- 'HIH' album, recorded in Sao Paolo 

             Charlie Wood - 'New Souvenirs' and 'Tomorrow Night' albums

Mark Lockheart- 'Moving Air', Imaginary Dances' and 'Through Rose Coloured Glasses' albums
            
             Cedar Walton live at Ronnie Scotts
           
 Bill Withers- Two European Tours

             Amy Winehouse- 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow' track, from 'Bridget Jones Edge of Reason'
               
 Robert Wyatt- The Robert Wyatt Story [6 studio tracks, TV film]

             JAZZ FM Live Performance of the year 2018 double bass w/Orphy Robinson Group