The Coloriage Trio

Featuring Mike Guy (accordion), Sam Dunn (electric guitar) and Eric Guy (double bass).

Since its creation in 2020, the group has performed at a host of UK venues including Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec, The Vortex, Gypsy Jazz Festival London, 1000 Trades Birmingham, The Parlour, Actors Church Covent Garden and others.  Tonight the trio will feature Mike Guy (accordion), Sam Dunn (electric guitar) and Eric Guy (double bass).

Mike has been involved over the past twenty five years in a wide variety of musical genres and performing situations, and currently maintains a busy schedule as professional performer on accordion and piano/keyboards, musical director and composer/arranger.  Originally from New South Wales, in 2004 Mike spent a few months in the Caribbean before moving to London, where he has worked with a host of UK and international talent including Sophie Solomon, The Puppini Sisters, Nina Ferro, Julian Rowlands, Osvaldo Chacon, Roberto Pla, Lisa Stansfield, Dame Edna Everage, Macy Gray, the National Symphony Orchestra, Brandon Allen, Anais Mitchell and others.  Mike regularly performs at many different venues across the UK and throughout London including the 606 Club, the Vortex, the Spice Of Life, Pizza Express Dean Street, Brasserie Zedel, Oxo Tower and others.

Sam Dunn’s playing style balances the old and the new, informed by the language of the greats that went before him, but with an ear for contemporary improvisation and harmony. In November 2022 he was commissioned to write and perform music for the London Jazz Festival, with the Wandsworth Jazz Orchestra. In April 2022 Sam was one of the tutors and performers at the 31st North Wales International Jazz Guitar Weekend. Sam is a regular performer at jazz clubs including Ronnie Scott’s, the 606, Peggy’s Skylight and many more across the UK and beyond. In 2020 he led a trio for a series of gigs in Valencia, and recently performed in Cologne with Judy Carmichael, with whom he also toured Australia and played at the Legnano Jazz festival in Milan.  Sam plays with a veritable who’s who of British jazz, including Alan Barnes, Dave Newton, Michael Garrick, Al Wood, Dave O’Higgins, Simon Spillett, Nadim Teimoori, Kate Peters, Jamie Taylor, Jon Shenoy and many more. He also plays with singer-songwriter Nina Clark, in her Alpha band, whose album has just been released. Sam plays in gypsy jazz band ‘The Hot Club of Jupiter,’ and Karen Street’s quartet, and in ‘The Clock Winders.’  He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (MMus Jazz) and Leeds College of Music (BAHons Jazz).

Eric Guy, hailing from Montreal, Canada, did the rounds in rock bands as a teenager before enrolling in the Jazz program at Vanier college, where he studied electric and acoustic bass with session veteran Vic Angelillo, arranging with Christopher Smith and composition under Joe Sullivan. He cut his teeth playing jazz around town with long-time friends and guitar virtuosos Jean-Sebastien Williams and Simon Angell (Patrick Watson), and the CJAD All-City Big Band under Denis Christiansen, amongst many others, and played in every musical situation available, from hip-hop to gypsy music, and everything in between.  In the period between 2002 and 2007 Eric sailed the high seas for parts of the year, playing bass for the luxury cruise lines Celebrity and Crystal Cruises, culminating in his appointment as band master and musical director in 2006 on the Crystal Symphony.  All the while, he continued to study privately with the likes of Rufus Reid, David Friesen and UK electric bass virtuoso Janek Gwizdala. His growing interest in composition and orchestration led him to delve deeply in the music of Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Mingus, and countless others, as well as completing a MIDI orchestration course under Ben Newhouse at Berklee College of music. Since moving to London in 2008, Eric Guy has been making his mark in both the Jazz and Pop scene, notably playing with Anton Browne, Mike Coates and Duncan Eagles.