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

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...

guitarist.

Biography

Boyle was born in

Patna Patna ( ), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...

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, India, on 24 November 1941. He attended the

Leeds College of Music Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populatio ...

in the early 1960s and then joined the folk-rock band

Eclection Eclection were a British-based folk rock band, originally formed in 1967 in London by Norwegian-born Georg Kajanus (then known as Georg Hultgreen), Canadian Michael Rosen, Australians Trevor Lucas and Kerrilee Male, and Briton Gerry Conway. They ...

. He also played in The Echoes, Dusty Springfield'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 Keith Tippett, Mike Gibbs,

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, Stomu Yamashta, Bert Jansch and Norma Winstone. In 1973, Boyle founded the jazz fusion band

Isotope Isotopes are two or more types of atoms that have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemical element), and that differ in nucleon numbers (mass numbers) ...

with

Jeff Clyne Jeffrey Ovid Clyne (29 January 1937 – 16 November 2009) was a British jazz bassist (playing both bass guitar and double bass). He worked with Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott in their group the Jazz Couriers for a year from 1958, and was part ...

(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

References

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* {{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