John Horler

b. John Douglas Horler, 26 Feb 1947, Lymington, Hampshire, Britain. Horler started playing piano as an extremely small child, even though still a teenager he performed in a music group led by his trumpeter dad Ronnie Horler. In the middle-60s he analyzed piano and in addition clarinet at London’s Royal Academy of Music, after that started a full-time professional profession. He caused many bands, a few of them jazz-orientated, including those led by Bobby Lamb-Raymond Premru, Allan Littlejohns, Tony Milliner and Tony Faulkner. In the first 70s he started an extended association using the BBC, playing in lots of organizations and musical configurations. From these years onwards he was also in great demand like a program musician and followed many fine going to jazzmen at London golf club dates. Through the 70s and 80s he caused UK and US music artists such as Artwork Farmer, Chet Baker, Zoot Sims, Maynard Ferguson, Tony Coe, Ronnie Ross, Pete Ruler, Kenny Wheeler and Tommy Whittle. In the middle-80s he also started a long-term musical romantic relationship with John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. In the 90s and fresh millennium, although Horler continuing to function in similar configurations, he became better recognized to jazz followers because of some exceptionally great albums. As an accompanist, Horler’s presents are self-evident from your list of music artists he offers accompanied over time. He in addition has often exhibited a flair for associated singers along with his use Laine and Elaine Delmar. From the comparative anonymity of his radio function, Horler’s abiding like for the playing of Expenses Evans is obvious, although he under no circumstances descends to simply aping his idol’s design. Strangely enough, Horler provides announced that he under no circumstances wanted to be considered a jazz pianist, having got as a youngsters a wish to ‘blow something’, specifically the trombone (his old sibling, Dave Horler, can be a trombonist). Horler’s playing demonstrates his exceptional technical presents, which he also uses in traditional work, and he’s a superb improvisatory jazz musician. His design and repertoire, while eclectic, screen a thoughtful and deeply innovative musician, and his latest work provides rightfully obtained him a fresh and enthusiastic pursuing.