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Buster Birch

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Buster Birch has been featured on the international hit podcast The Self Publishing Show. You can hear him discussing his books, writing and teaching in interview here... http://selfpublishingformula.com/spot...

Buster Birch is an award-winning jazz musician and educator from London, UK. He has been a professorial member of the jazz faculty at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of music for seven years where he taught improvisation, musicianship, jazz repertoire and jazz history classes. He has been a visiting lecturer at The Royal Academy of Music, The Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Middlesex University.

He is director of the UK's largest and longest running jazz summer school www.theoriginalukjazzsummerschool.com, a week-long residential c Buster Birch has been featured on the international hit podcast The Self Publishing Show. You can hear him discussing his books, writing and teaching in interview here... http://selfpublishingformula.com/spot...

Buster Birch is an award-winning jazz musician and educator from London, UK. He has been a professorial member of the jazz faculty at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of music for seven years where he taught improvisation, musicianship, jazz repertoire and jazz history classes. He has been a visiting lecturer at The Royal Academy of Music, The Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Middlesex University.

He is director of the UK's largest and longest running jazz summer school www.theoriginalukjazzsummerschool.com, a week-long residential course hosted at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama for singers and all instrumentalists of all ages and experience levels. He also runs two regular jazz workshops for adult learners www.saturdayjazzworkshop.co.uk and www.tonbridgejazzworkshop.co.uk.

He is co-founder and course leader for BYMT Jazz School (www.bymt.co.uk) which runs regular jazz improvisation classes for junior and secondary school students at the county music centre. In 2017 BYMT Jazz School won the prestigious Will Michael Diploma Award for Jazz Education, a national award recognising "outstanding commitment to jazz education" and "acknowledging the work of those field practitioners who are actually delivering jazz education and in many cases helping to combat the widespread jazz phobia among classroom music teachers and instrumental tutors."

Buster Birch is also a busy freelance jazz drummer who has worked with a great many of the UK's finest jazz musicians. He has an honours degree in music from the University of London and a post-graduate diploma in jazz performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also studied at the Drummers Collective in New York City and privately with Jim Chapin and Joe Morello (of The Dave Brubeck Quartet). He has performed at virtually every major concert hall and jazz club in London as well as international festivals. He has toured in over 30 countries and played on more than 30 CDs. He has been a member of three "world" music groups (Terza Rima, The Branco Stoysin Trio and Heads South) who he recorded and toured with extensively. He has played for world-class orchestras, including The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and has deputised on West End shows.

In 2011 he created his own critically acclaimed show www.busterplaysbuster.co.uk which features the Buster Birch Jazz Quartet playing live and in sync to the screening of various different Buster Keaton feature-length silent movies, for which he arranged and scored all of the music.

In addition to his regular freelance work, he is a member of the following bands... ARQ (The Alison Rayner Quintet) - winners of the UK Parliamentary Award for "Best Jazz Ensemble 2018", The Jo Fooks Quartet, Heads South, The London Jazz Trio and The Halstead Jazz Club Big Band.

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	Beginner Jazz Soloing for Saxophone & Clarinet: The beginner’s guide to jazz improvisation for woodwind instruments (Beginner Jazz Woodwind Soloing Book 1) by Buster Birch (Goodreads Author), Joseph Alexander (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tim Pettingale (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Beginner Jazz Soloing for Trumpet: The beginner’s guide to jazz improvisation for brass instruments by Buster Birch (Goodreads Author), Tim Pettingale, Joseph Alexander (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beginner Jazz Soloing for Violin: The beginner’s guide to jazz improvisation for concert pitch instruments (Learn how to play violin Book 1) by Buster Birch (Goodreads Author), Joseph Alexander (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tim Pettingale (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rhythm Changes Soloing for Saxophone & Clarinet: The Guide to Chord Tone Soloing on Rhythm Changes for Jazz Saxophone and Clarinet it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Comping for Jazz Drums: An Introduction to Jazz Comping, Musical Interaction & Phrasing for Drummers (Learn to Play Drums Book 7) by Buster Birch (Goodreads Author), Joseph Alexander (Goodreads Author), Tim Pettingale (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beginner Jazz Soloing for Flute: The beginner's guide to jazz improvisation for flute & concert pitch instruments by Buster Birch (Goodreads Author), Joseph Alexander (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tim Pettingale (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beginner Jazz Soloing for Flute: The beginner's guide to jazz improvisation for flute & concert pitch instruments by Buster Birch (Goodreads Author), Joseph Alexander (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tim Pettingale (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beginner Jazz Soloing for Trumpet: The beginner’s guide to jazz improvisation for brass instruments (Beginner Jazz Trumpet Soloing Book 1) by Buster Birch (Goodreads Author), Tim Pettingale, Joseph Alexander (Goodreads Author) (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beginner Jazz Soloing for Violin: The beginner’s guide to jazz improvisation for concert pitch instruments by Buster Birch (Goodreads Author), Joseph Alexander (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tim Pettingale (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars