Web developer, designer / Musician, saxophone player, composer / Bristol, UK
Music
“Where has he been? … a very, very good saxophonist. Very original, very passionate… a very sexy sound.”
Radio 3 Jazz Line-up
“…the inventive McMurchie, his sensual tone falling somewhere between early Sonny Rollins and Pink-Panther tenorist Plas Johnson, was a revelation.”
London Evening Standard
The Blessing
Now named Get The Blessing, the band I share with Pete Judge, Jim Barr and Clive Deamer. “… the heavyweights of the contemporary jazz scene.” The Independent
GTB’s debut album All Is Yes won Album of the Year 2008 in the BBC Jazz Awards.
Bugs In Amber was released in May 2009, and garnered similarly great reviews.
We are currently working on our next album which will be released early in 2012.
Other projects
Nick Malcolm Quintet with Nick Malcolm, Dr. Will Harris, Mark Whitlam and Dale Hambridge.
The Pollinators with Mike Willox (keys), Thad Kelly (bass) and Daisy Palmer (drums).
Green 61 with Dan Brown (guitar), Dan Moore (hammond organ) and Tammy Payne (drums).
I play with Charlie Mingus tribute band Mingus Fingers, and with saxophone quartet Quadrophonic. I have played with Portishead, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and with the great Portugese singer Fernando Tordo at the National Theatre in Lisbon.
Past projects include What Four, Ultrasound and Musaic. What Four had a long-standing involvement with Yehudi Menuhin’s outreach organisation “Live Music Now!” and did many concerts and projects throughout the UK.
Web Design and Development
- www.gettheblessing.com
Award winning alt-jazz group - www.thepassionofjoanofarc.com
Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) wrote an new score for this masterpiece of silent cinema - www.cpreavonside.org.uk
News and information site for the local branch of CPRE, redesigned to fit with a change in branding by CPRE national - www.tramoresestate.com
Designed by Mirkku Bishop and built by me using jQuery - www.globalcrosstrade.com
Designed and built by me using WordPress - www.endtaxhavensecrecy.org
I was the principle WordPress developer and a senior project manager on this website campaigning for an international strategy to prevent tax evasion - www.charlotteboulay-goldsmith.com
Designed and built by me in HTML/CSS using jQuery for Charlotte’s portfolio - www.southdownbarns.co.uk
Beautiful home to rent in rural Devon - www.aef.org.uk
News and information site for the Aviation Environment Federation - www.sustainableredland.org.uk
News and information about Redland based group interested in promoting a sustainable community - www.stopbia.com
Website for group seeking to prevent the expansion of Bristol Airport
I specialise in the design and build of websites using html5/xhtml and css, server-side development using php/mysql, client-side development using jQuery, and WordPress.