James Sherlock Trio – Album Launch

James began playing classical guitar at age 7. He attended the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, studying classical guitar, and graduated in 1992. He is now based in Melbourne, Australia. James was the winner of the Ike Isaacs International Jazz Guitar Award. As a bandleader, James has released six albums and appeared on many recordings for other artists.

James works with a variety of Australia’s finest jazz musicians and has collaborated with visiting artists including New Orleans trumpeter Leroy Jones, New York jazz vocalists Sheila Jordan and Cyrille Aimee and master drummers Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts and Jon Riley. He has also performed or recorded with artists as diverse as British guitar virtuoso Martin Taylor, Kate Ceberano, Megan Washington, Joe Camilleri and New York film composer Howard Shore and with The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and The Australian Chamber Orchestra. In 2021 James was featured soloist in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s work “Blood on the Floor”. The James Sherlock Trio was featured in the ABC TV Jazz Series “The Pulse”.

“The Verb not the Noun” is James’ first trio recording since “Domestic Arts” in 2010 and the first to feature an all original program since “Watermark” in 2006.

Joining James on this recording is the combined artistry and experience of Sam Anning on bass and Danny Fischer on drums, James plays archtop guitar and nylon string as the group explore the textural, rhythmic, harmonic and melodic
possibilities of the guitar trio.

Recorded at Headgap studios, engineered by Rohan Sforcina and mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington the recording will be available on vinyl, CD and Bandcamp from Oct 17th.

Cover artwork by Jeff Raglus