IAN BRIGHTON
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition • United Kingdom

Ian Brighton is an improvising guitarist known mostly for his work between the 70s and the early 90s playing alongside Lol Coxhill, Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos, Trevor Taylor, Frank Perry, Radu Malfatti Veryan Weston and Larry Stabbins. He also was part of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble with John Stevens, Trevor Watts and Evan Parker, the Tony Oxley Quartet and co-founder, with Trevor Taylor, of the Alternative Music Orchestra. Other contemporaries at the time included David Toop, John Russell, Roger Smith and Peter Cusack; each different in their approach to improvisation on the guitar.   After an absence of nearly 30 years, interest was expressed when he appeared on Tony Oxley's 75 years birthday album on Incus.  This  was followed by a release on SoundCloud in 2014 entitled " A Voice You Left Behind " ;  a tribute to his old friend and mentor, Derek Bailey. Now and Then read more...