Gary Winston Boyle (born 24 November 1941) is a British

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guitarist.

Biography

Boyle was born in

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, India, on 24 November 1941. He attended the

Leeds College of Music Leeds Conservatoire (formerly known as The Leeds Music Centre, the City of Leeds College of Music, and Leeds College of Music) is a higher education music conservatoire based in the Quarry Hill district of Leeds, England. It was founded in 19 ...

in the early 1960s and then joined the folk-rock band Eclection. He also played in The Echoes,

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's band in the mid-1960s, and recorded with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll. In the early 1970s he worked as a session musician with musicians

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, Mike Gibbs,

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, Stomu Yamashta,

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and

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. In 1973, Boyle founded the jazz fusion band

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with Jeff Clyne (bass), Brian Miller (keyboards) and Nigel Morris (drums). This line-up gigged around the United Kingdom extensively.Liner notes to "Golden Section"

Discography

With

* ''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 * Gig with the band

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NDR Jazz Workshop 1973

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyle, Gary 1941 births Jazz fusion guitarists British rock guitarists British male guitarists Musicians from Bihar Living people Alumni of Leeds College of Music Isotope (band) members Brian Auger and the Trinity members British male jazz musicians