Alison Rayner grew up on a diet of 60's
soul and rock music, played bass guitar and discovered jazz
in the 70's. She toured the world in the 80's with the critically
acclaimed jazz-latin group the Guest Stars, took up double
bass in the 90's and formed her own jazz quartet.
She currently records and performs both in Britain and internationally
with, amongst others, the Deirdre Cartwright Group, the Emma
Peel Fan Club and the Vortex Foundation Big Band. She plays
with many of the great musicians on the London jazz scene
where she runs Blow the Fuse club with her musical cohort
Deirdre Cartwright.
Her compositions are featured in the repertoire of the Deirdre
Cartwright group, and the VFBB. She has also composed pieces
for the Rockschool/Trinity graded exam series.
She lectures in music in London and on summer schools both
here and abroad.
She is an endorsee for Bridge Cetus electric upright basses
and Picato Innovation double bass strings.
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