the Phil Miller Guitar Prize 29th Feb 2024 (original) (raw)

We held the third Phil Miller Guitar prize in the Eastside Jazz Club at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on Thursday the 29th of February. To start the proceedings off we were treated to the inaugural performance of the Phil Miller Legacy Band. Fred T Baker and Jim Bashford have been working with the students for some time on this project which features students from the Jazz Department playing the music of Phil Miller. Here is the line up:
Piano: Marcus Coats, Bass: Kyle Welch, Drums: Kefan Hu, Vocals: Grace Conner,
Sax: Ben Kempner, Trumpet: Henry Hanson and Guitar: Jamie Mcleish. Fred joined the band on guitar on all numbers and Jim joined in with drums on the last number.

Here is a review of the Phil Miller Guitar Prize from Facelift’s Phil Howitt.

After the Band Fred T Baker played Nowadays A Silhouette and Lock In on acoustic guitar.

Then came the guitar prize. All the contestants this year were duos

After the interval the prizes were announced and the evening ended with most of the cast arriving on stage together to have fun with a finale playing Phil’s composition/riff Nan True’s Hole.

Thanks to Andy Bole who kindly recorded the evenings proceedings which he has given us. The sound quality will be much better than from the camcorder asthey were recorded from the desk.