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Ian Cruickshank
Ian Cruickshank is credited on 49 releases across 7 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1969–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
49
Pressings credited
7
Albums
7
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
Ian Cruickshank (1947 – 29 April 2017) was an English electric and acoustic guitarist most associated with the blues-rock and gypsy jazz genres, also well known in the U.K. as an educator, author and columnist, record producer and record label owner, festival organiser and promoter of artists in the gypsy jazz world. He achieved some success in the 1960s in the Keef Hartley Band playing electric guitar under the pseudonym Spit James before becoming enamoured of the gypsy jazz style originated by Django Reinhardt in the 1930s and devoting almost all of his energies to educating, performing and promoting activities in this area up till his death in 2017. He published several influential books on gypsy jazz, was producer and music co-ordinator for the TV Documentary Django Legacy, was the owner of the Fret Records record label, and organised the UK Gypsy Jazz Guitar Festival annually from 1997 to 2000.
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Credited work
49 releases · 7 albums · active 1969–2024
- Performance · 63
- Other credits · 13
- Production · 7
Studios: Marquee Club · Decca Studios · Krokodil, Kirchheim · Trident Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Keef Hartley Band
- Bireli Lagrene Ensemble
- The Keef Hartley Band
- Keef Hartley
- Molly Molloy
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