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Gavin Bryars

Gavin Bryars has been played on NTS over 50 times, featured on 50 episodes and was first played on 22 January 2015.

Richard Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in (or has produced works in) many varied styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism experimental music, avant-garde, neoclassicism, and ambient.

Born in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Bryars initially studied philosophy at Sheffield University before studying music for three years. The first musical work for which is he remembered was his role as bassist in the trio Joseph Holbrooke, alongside guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony…

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Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahim
Harold Budd feat. Gavin Bryars, Marion Brown
All Saints2013
Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahim
Harold Budd feat. Gavin Bryars, Marion BrownAll Saints2013
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Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Gavin Bryars
Obscure, Island Records1975
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Gavin BryarsObscure, Island Records1975
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Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (The Single)
Gavin Bryars, Tom Waits
Point Music1993
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (The Single)
Gavin Bryars, Tom WaitsPoint Music1993
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The Sinking Of The Titanic
Gavin Bryars
Obscure, Island Records1975
The Sinking Of The Titanic
Gavin BryarsObscure, Island Records1975
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Prologue (1986)
Gavin Bryars, Arditti String Quartet, Pascal Pongy, Charles Fullbrook
ECM New Series1986
Prologue (1986)
Gavin Bryars, Arditti String Quartet, Pascal Pongy, Charles FullbrookECM New Series1986
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Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Gavin Bryars, Tom Waits
Point Music0
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Gavin Bryars, Tom WaitsPoint Music0
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1, 2, 1-2-3-4
Gavin Bryars
Obscure, Island Records1975
1, 2, 1-2-3-4
Gavin BryarsObscure, Island Records1975
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1, 2, 1-2-3-4
Gavin Bryars
Mode2007
1, 2, 1-2-3-4
Gavin BryarsMode2007
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Programme Two ("Three Card Trick")
Gavin Bryars, Juan Muñoz
GB Records2003
Programme Two ("Three Card Trick")
Gavin Bryars, Juan MuñozGB Records2003
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After Handel's Vesper
Gavin Bryars, Ralph van Raat, Cappella Amsterdam, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Tausk
Naxos2011
After Handel's Vesper
Gavin Bryars, Ralph van Raat, Cappella Amsterdam, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, TauskNaxos2011
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