Mike Walker (jazz guitarist)

Mike Walker ( born July 12, 1962 in Salford ) is an English jazz guitarist.

Life

Walker played since the mid- 1980s in the quartet of vibraphonist Alan Butler. He also appeared in the book by Michael Gibbs and Big Kenny Wheeler. Together with pianist Roy Powell, he founded the fusion band Some Other Country, which included bassist Gary Culshaw, and drummer Steve Gilbert. In the late 1980s he formed with Nikki and Richard Iles, the band Emanon.

At the same time, he also played in the band of Sylvan Richardson, where he met the saxophonist Iain Dixon. Walker, Richardson, Dixon and drummer Mikey Wilson later formed the band Brazil Nuts.

During an appearance with Kenny Wheeler's big band in Zurich Walker Julian Argüelles met, whose quartet he joined. In the early 1990s he toured with different groups of Tommy Smith among others a quartet with bassist Mick Hutton and drummer Ian Froman and occasionally with Niels Lan Doky and Jason Rebello.

As a member of George Russell's Living Time Orchestra, he toured most European countries and the USA. The Creative Jazz Orchestra, he worked among others with Vince Mendoza, Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, and Mark-Anthony Turnage together. Other musicians with whom he worked, are Dave Holland, John Taylor, Tal Farlow, Bob Moses, Arild Andersen, Palle Mikkel Borg, Mica Paris, Norma Winstone, and Jacqui Dankworth. In 2011, he took with Adam Nussbaum, Steve Swallow and Gwilym Simcock the abum The Impossible Gentlemen ( Basho Records) on.