From Australia comes Richard Ashby’s latest recording, an instrumental album where Ashby shows his magnificent qualities as a guitar player.

Born in the south of New Zealand, in 2008 he settled in Sydney where he has developed his activity as a guitar teacher, musician and composer.

As a musician he mainly performs jazz, blues and popular music and has developed a fruitful career working as a lead guitarist in various groups, as well as a free-lance guitar player for other musicians, performing in New Zealand and Australia at the most important festivals there.

For the last twenty years he has taught guitar lessons. His classes are in high demand and always full, thanks to the passionate way he teaches and communicates his love for music to his students. With them he is always involved in different combos, also writing arrangements and doing musical transcriptions.

This album presents seven of their own compositions, which become a vibrant and electrifying combination of the most classic blues with doses of funk, soul or boogaloo. To do so, he has counted with the valuable collaboration of some of the most outstanding Sydney blues and jazz scene musicians like Jeremy Sawkins on guitar, Oscar Peterson on bass, Dan Kennedy on drums and, of course, Richard Ashby on guitar.

It is always a pleasure to discover talented high-class musicians coming from such distant places, as is the case of Richard Ashby. I dare to say he will conquer most listeners with his elegance and impressive technique on guitar.