User:Dylan Howe
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[[Image:DHSoho3.jpg|thumb|Dylan Howe 2008]
Biography
Howe grew up in Hampstead, London. He is the son of guitarist Steve Howe (of Yes)—his father named him after Dylan Thomas.
DH attended King Alfred School. He started playing aged 10 & is mainly self-taught. He studied for small periods of time with Bill Bruford and Jonathan Mover and UK teaching great Bob Armstrong.
In 1996 he joined the house band for the Channel 4 light entertainment series Light Lunch and Late Lunch, presented by comediennes Mel and Sue.
He joined Ian Dury and the Blockheads in 1997.
Dylan joined father Steve and brother Virgil Howe in Steve Howe's Remedy band in a 2004 European tour and is featured on many of his solo albums. The Steve Howe Trio is a new group featuring Steve, Dylan & Ross Stanley on Hammond organ and will be touring the UK in June 2008.
Dylan Howe married Zoe Street in November 2006. They live in London.
"Dylan has been performing and writing for over two decades, and has a CV of near unsurpassed and eclectic 'who's who' to just about catalogue and contain it.
Having spent the past four powering his quintet - a likely young bunch of improvising impresarios - who are collectively renowned for their fiery sets, groundbreaking compositions and a new take on the Blue Note-esque sensibility - with critical acclaim stacked on DH's four albums and nationwide tours to boot - this new project is his boldest and most imaginative yet.
Mostly self-taught, and having picked up the sticks to jam with his dad Yes guitarist Steve Howe in 1979, Dylan has been particularly influenced by Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Stewart Copeland, John Bonham and the music of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Igor Stravinsky, David Bowie and the Muppets.
Dylan has collaborated with the likes of Nick Cave, Damon Albarn, Portishead, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Stan Sulzmann, Ray Davies, Sir Paul McCartney and Courtney Pine to name but a few that should be named. An active member of The Blockheads for over 10 years as well as the Steve Howe Trio and a kind of neo-veteran to studios and concert halls un-alike, this year sees the evolution of one of the countries most interesting musicians and of course, drummers Dylan Howe."
[edit]Dylan Howe Quintet
Dylan Howe formed his own jazz quintet in 2003 and has released four albums as leader:[1]
The Way I Hear It (2003) OT Records
This Is It (2004) OT Records
Translation - Recorded Live In Soho - Volume 1 (2006) Motorik Recordings
Translation 2 - Standards and Previews (2007) Motorik Recordings
[edit]Dylan Howe & The Subterreanans
Howe's new project is Dylan Howe & The Subterreanans, playing the music of David Bowie's Low & Heroes reimagined by jazz sextet with strings & electronics. The launch is on November 25th at Londons Cargo venue
"Forming a third stream between the seminal 70’s Bowie albums and the Philip Glass adaptations is a new project lighting the touch paper of improvisation and igniting fresh explorations of some of the most important music of the 20th century. The Art event meltdown of 2007 - featuring the leading players of the world stage celebrating & re-energizing the music that changed a generation forever 30 years ago..."
The project consists of Dylan Howe (drums/arrangements), Ross Stanley (piano /arrangements), Chris Hill (double bass), Robbie Robson (trumpet), Sam Crockatt (tenor sax) and Gilad Atzmon (alto sax), with Adrian Utley [guitar, electronics) and The Solid Strings. With vocals by Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers) and Tim Dickinson. Also with images by Sir Peter Blake.
" To me, the music you hear when you're 12 or 13 is some of the most important you'll ever remember. It runs down and forms a deep fissure to your core, at least it did to me. It's at that all-important age when everything is so vital and unknown. It never really leaves you and only serves to reassure and reenergize the person that was just beginning to start to stand upright all those years ago… That's how I feel about 'Low' and "Heroes". It seemed bleak and futuristic, but made with something exotic too. It had the backdrop of a European city that I'd never been to, cold at first but warming with bright winter light breaking through the clouds. Good jackets too! With this new project I want to capture that atmosphere but with all that's happened along the way. This is much more than a tribute or re-working, it's really more of a launching pad. I liked what Philip Glass did with the music too. It seems to almost immediately lend itself to new adaptations and being remolded or totally reconstructed.
This lineup is really something else, a collection of the best there is, in my book (some weren't in my book but I got lucky).
It's the culmination of two years work for me and a real highpoint of my creative stuffs - I can't wait"
Dylan Howe | Soho | October 2007
[edit]Session work
Dylan Howe's previous session / studio work has included
Paul McCartney, Portishead, Damon Albarn, Dave Gilmour, Nick Cave, Shane McGowan, singer-songwriter Ray Davies' (of The Kinks), Hugh Cornwell, Steve Harley, Glenn Tilbrook, Suggs, Green Garside, Paul Young, Curtis Stigers, Courtney Pine, Tom Jones, Baxter Dury (Ian's son), Lewis Taylor, Hijack, Edwin Starr, Sam Moore, Ben E King, Ruby Turner, Martha Reeves, Sam Brown, P. P. Arnold, Sinead O'Connor, Jane Monheit, Seal, Leon Ware, Gabrielle, Chaka Khan, Lightning Seeds.
He has worked with the following producers: Trevor Horn, John Leckie, Laurie Latham, Andy Wright, Biff Stannard & Julian Gallagher, Paul O'Duffy, Nigel Godrich, John Cornwell, Karl Wallinger, John Brough, Steve Power and Guy Chambers.
A full session/musical history is available at [2]. [edit]External links
Dylan Howe website
Dylan Howe MySpace page: www.myspace.com/dylanhowe
Dylan Howe & The Subterreanans MySpace page: www.myspace.com/dylanhoweandthesubterraneans
