Gary Husband

Gary Husband works as a pianist, drummer, and bandleader whose journeyman career in jazz-rock reflects a versatile, dynamic, and genre-bending stance toward improvised music. Leeds-born in 1960, he trained in classical piano and jazz before entering the professional ranks. Throughout the 1990s he formed his own piano trio with bassist Mick Hutton and drummer Gene Calderazzo, issuing the album From the Heart in 1999 while also maintaining sideman associations with Billy Cobham, Jimmy Nail, Anthony Hindson, and additional collaborators. Solo activity resumed in 2004 with Aspire alongside The Things I See: Interpretations of the Music of Allan Holdsworth. Two years later he explored a further key influence on A Meeting of Spirits: Interpretations of the Music of John McLaughlin. The highly personal The Complete Diary of a Plastic Box arrived in 2008, assembling pieces Husband composed during sideman tours between 1989 and 1993. Shifting toward a post-bop sensibility, he next released Hotwired: Gary Husband's Drive in 2009. In 2010 Holdsworth joined him, together with other legendary fusion figures such as McLaughlin, keyboardist Jan Hammer, and guitarist Robin Trower, on Dirty and Beautiful, Vol. 1; Husband continued the series with Dirty and Beautiful, Vol. 2 in 2012.