Ty Garner began life as a
busker working the streets of London, Paris and Amsterdam playing folk, ragtime
and blues styles of music before settling back in his home town of Mansfield
where he established himself as one of the leading talents on the British
rhythm and blues scene. Tirelessly, Ty led a dual life as a bandleader and a
triple shift factory operative working hard to secure his place in the lineage
of the British blues tradition. His outstanding performance at the Edinburgh International
Jazz & Blues Festival earned him instant recognition as one of the most
exciting and original blues artists to emerge in recent times:
"Beautiful subtle
imaginative electric blues guitar playing."
Neil Davidson, Scots Blues
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Entering full-time music
education Ty secured a place on the prestigious BA (Hons) Jazz Studies at Leeds
Music College in West Yorkshire and studied guitar under Mike Walker one of the
most sought-after players in the music business. After graduating, Ty visited a
friend who played in the Monte Carlo Big Band in Monaco. It was this experience
that led him to a chance meeting with ‘Mahavishnu’ John McLaughlin prompting Ty
to focus wholeheartedly on the European continent where he has spent subsequent
years developing a reputation amongst the blues and jazz fraternity in Belgium,
France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and
Switzerland.
Ty's "guitar based blues roots" are
steeped in the oral tradition of the Mississippi Delta country blues singers
Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Ty's
"jazz edge" derives from Texan guitar genius T-Bone Walker, St. Louis
legend trumpeter Miles Davis and Memphis guitar star BB King. In addition to
this blues and jazz synthesis, Ty's "psychedelic" influence comes
from the transatlantic generation of guitar players Mike Bloomfield, Jimi
Hendrix, Carlos Santana and Peter Green.
"Ty's contemporary approach to playing the blues is as fresh as it is unique."
