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Described by theTimes as a bassist who "plays with energy and a firm tone across the instrument’s full range" 26-year-old, Conor Murray grew up in rural County Donegal in a musical family.
After having a chance to explore many instruments and styles of music he found a passion for jazz in his early teens and received mentorship in his early years from one of the countries top jazz musicians David Lyttle. In 2015 he moved to Glasgow to study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, under the direction of Tommy Smith and gained experience performing in many of Scotland’s jazz clubs with some of the country’s top musicians as a first call sideman as well as leading his own groups alongside his brother Micheal Murray. Conor has been a student of bassists Mario Caribe, Ben Wolfe and Uli Langthaler and Neal Miner.
Since 2019 Conor has toured in Ireland, Britain, Europe, Russia and Morocco and had the opportunity to perform and share the stage with many great musicians such as Jason Rebello, Tony Kofi, Jean Toussaint, Darren Beckett, Michael Kanan, David Lyttle, Meilana Gillard,Phil Robson, Christine Tobin and Georgia Cecile Smith at festival's and venues such as The Limerick Jazz Festival, Westival, Derry Jazz Festival, Glasgow Jazz Festival and the Queens Hall in Edinburgh. 2021 saw the release of his debut album 'Murrays Law' on Lyte Records which was received positively with interviews and reviews in Hot Press, IMC and All About Jazz. Conor has also performed regularly with his own groups the Murray brothers quartet, a collective trio called trí, and his own quintet. Conor has been hailed as one of the rising stars and the best in the new generation of Irish jazz, he has attracted praise from The Times, All About Jazz and the Irish Times for his live performances, along with his brother Micheal Murray and their independent jazz festival, the Falcarragh Winter Jazz Festival, which brought the world's best jazz artists to one of Ireland's most remote and unspoiled rural villages for three consecutive years. He is also a regular faculty member at the Sligo Jazz
Project, and will be releasing his first album of quintet music later this year.
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