Bio

With commitment to first rate artistic consistency in both live and studio applications, Chris is regarded as one of the top up and coming player / producer / Educators in the UK.

Winner of the BBC Introducing Award 2009 and recently awarded BEST JAZZ ALBUM 2009 ( MoJo Magazine ) with trioVD; Chris over the last 12 months has recorded and written with some of the biggest names in Pop / Rock / Classical and Jazz.

Recent recording and playing credits include:
trioVD ( Babel )
Michaeal Bolton ( Sony BMG )
Evelyn Glennie
Jennifer Kae ( Warner Brothers )
London Sinfonietta
Acoustic Ladyland
Barrie Gledden

From turning professional at 18 Chris has enjoyed 3 Major record deals with Universal, Polydor records, and Babel whilst securing a publishing deal with AudioNetwork for his work with the media in 2000. As a composer recent studio pieces include soundtracks written for E4s TV hit program Sugar Rush, Panorama, ABC News America, Hollyoaks, Russell Brand Show, Sky Sports, Discovery Channel, Top Gear.

A regular face at the studio of Steve Crisanthou ( Corrine Bailey Rae ) and Simon Humphry ( Abba , David Byrne, Elton John ) Chris enjoys working relationships with the best pop producers in the country.

As well as playing and producing Chris works closely with the UK’s top music promoters ‘Serious’ touring the UK delivering workshops to schools and colleges. These workshops range from primary to Post Grad lecture applications.

Recent Rock and Blues Tour Live credits: Henry Rollins, Big Joe Turner ( BB King ) , Malibu Stacey ( Terrorvison ) Sweet Suzi, InMe, trioVD, Bilbao Syndrome,

Recent Jazz Live Credits Include : Acoustic Ladyland, Marc Ducret ( Tim Berne ) Matt Bourne ( Perier Jazz Award Winner ) Kit Downes, Chris Sharkey ( Acoustic Ladyland ) Dave Kane, Simon Beddoe

Chris will release the debut album ‘ Fill It Up With Ghosts’ with trioVD 09/11/09 with an album launch at this years London Jazz Festival 09. BBC Jazz on 3 will present a live show on 07/11/09 to coincide with the release.


For live and studio bookings / lessons contact:

Band Websites : http://www.myspace.com/triovd
: http://www.myspace.com/chrisbussey1
: http://www.myspace.com/bilbaosyndrome

Reviews

“drummer Chris Bussey stands out as the preposterously talented instrumentalist with a tone and attack huge enough to fill any stadium, let alone a nightclub...”

Daniel Spicer on trioVD ‘Fill It Up With Ghosts’


“.....with Bussey’s maverick inclinations, the resulting flow of brilliant and busy ideas are unstoppable as they are breathtaking”

BBC Music Magazine on trioVD ‘Fill It Up With Ghosts’


..."it’s drummer Chris Bussey that brings an extraordinary energy and charisma to their live show (trioVD). Bussey’s ferocious attack, sheer exuberance and abundant virtuosity combine with a high wire, devil-may-care humour that’s wrapped up in a manic Keith Moon grin that simply bursts of the stage”

Mike Flynn Jazzwise


“Rapidly making a name for producing some of the most progressive sounds anywhere in the country”

Daniel Spicer : Jazzwise


“Chris Bussey is emerging as being one of the most important young musicians in the music business”

(Producer Simon Humphrey; Abba / David Byrne)


“Likes his tea strong as a badger, a true Yorkshireman”

(Producer Richard Lacey; Edens Bridge)

Minghe Morte Album Review Jazzwise 08

“Confrontational, clownish and clever”

“Supremely funky approximations of drum and base and garage house”

“Intense scatological bursts of violent jump cuts and vein busting skronk”

TrioVD review Vortex Jazz Club

“...with drummer Bussey completing this triple whammy of 1970s style loose-limbed abandon with some distinctly Cobham-esque pounding this trio is bursting with barely contained passion”

“it’s this band’s edgy humour, dark near-Satanic thrashing and disdainful virtuosity is both vivid and refreshing”

(Mike Flynn::Jazzwise / Time Out)

“...with stick spins, grease bucket grooves and elaborate showmanship, drummer Chris Bussey propels this post parliament band with total authority.”

(Funkjunk Magazine) Menace and the Funkilium Live Review