I was
born in Bahrain and grew up in Central America and the Caribbean.
I spent many years in London and lived in France, Germany and presently
in Switzerland.
I started playing classical guitar as a schoolboy and was taught by
Georges Sergides who introduced me to my first taste of Spanish and
South American guitar music. Being a young guitarist in London in
the late 70's led to my first rock bands and professional work.
Leaving the UK for France I met gypsy swing players while I lived in
the north of Paris who blew my mind with their playing and their love
of Django Reinhardt, who is still one of my main influences today.
After a year in Germany where I played the Olympic Centre in Munich
with German jazz rockers Parzival, I toured Europe with the Hectors.
Settling in Switzerland for a couple of years I played with Extrem-Normal,
one of the happening Swiss bands of the 80's. I did 2 tours with them
of Switzerland and Europe.
I then had an 8 month stint as guitarist for the Dutch Rock Opera, "Ik,
Jan Kremer" before moving back to London in the mid 80's. One of
the first jobs I got was composing the music for the Battersea Power
Station Development Project.
I worked in London as a session player and composer, eventually landing
the guitar gig with UK rock legends John McCoy and Nicky Moore in
Mammoth.
After Moore left the band unexpectedly in 1990 I got involved in the
Notting Hill gate music scene and met musicians who I worked with over
the next 13 years as session and live guitarist such as U-Cef, Bill
Hurley (with the Fullmoon Blues Band), songwriter Nick Graham, Mark
Sayfritz (D.O.G./Verve/EMI) Sarah Jay (Massive Attack), Leroy Quyntyn
Band and Colin Peel as well as touring with the Gilbert O'Sullivan Band.
I started working as a producer in the mid 90's with the Swiss band
Big Business on their debut CD "Something Must be Wrong" (Rec
Rec)
This led to the production of Mich Gerber's first CD, Mystery Bay, which
I recorded in London and mixed in Switzerland with Stefan Moser.
I then produced a solo classical guitar CD (the Classical Album),
a live CD in Moscow with Bill Hurley, as well as the London Blues
Band in the early noughties.
During all this time I wrote and recorded music for loads of different
projects and now have a huge back catalogue of material.
In late
2003/ spring 2004 I produced Chris Jaussi's first CD, 5 Blue.
In 2007 I once again uprooted and left London for Switzerland where
I formed my own band, the Bruce Reynolds Rock Trio. The first Rock
Trio CD came out in May, 2009 as well as my solo CD, "Dedication"
in April 2009.
At the
present I'm gigging with my Rock Trio, the Luna Llena Duo with Napolitan
mezzo-soprano Simona Mango and with the Luna Llena Swing Project.
SHORT
HISTORY
Bands include : Bruce Reynolds Rock Trio, Mammoth (with John McCoy and
Nicky Moore), Nick Graham, Fullmoon Blues Band featuring Bill Hurley,
Peel, Leroy Quyntyn Band, Luna Llena Swing Project, Gilbert O'Sullivan.
Productions include... Solo CD "25", London Blues, Chris Jaussi's
"Five Blue", Big Business "Something must be wrong"
(Record Junkie), Luna Llena Swing Project "Volume 1" and Mich
Gerber "Mystery Bay"
Sessions include: Mark Sayfritz soundtracks, D.O.G. (Verve /EMI), BBC
Radio and TV, Channel 4 TV, London Radio, Nick Graham, Connect-2-Music,
Hit and Run Music, Dutch TV, Belgian TV, Jeff Wayne Music etc