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Hi, I'm a keys player and I like making up grooves to existing jazz and latin standards. Over the last few years I've been mainly working on original numbers.

It's just me in the music you hear, I play all the parts off a keyboard recording in midi and layer up into the finished version.

I started playing the piano as a kid , then took up the trombone and played for fun in various local amateur bands and orchestras. Then at 18 went to college and didn't do anything  musically  for many years. Started playing the saxophone and tuba more recently, and in the last four years or so got back into the keyboard which is now my main instrument.

I like making up jazzy  late night music & music you can listen to when travelling. Sounds like a strange thing but I find the most enjoyable part of a holiday is the travelling part, whether that's on a plane , train or even a car on a quiet road with some nice views. Looking through a window with a changing view, in a bubble of suspended time between two worlds, that's what travelling feels like to me, and I like to write music that sounds that way - http://soundcloud.com/markd54321/361-stolen-moments-320kbps . Can't really explain it any better than that for now. Cheers Mark

A seven-time multi-category finalist/semi-finalist in the internationally renowned UK Songwriting Contest (including second place in the Jazz/Blues category) since the early 2000s, Greg Walker's Straight From The Source 1 held the No.1 position simultaneously in the overall Jazz chart, the Latin Jazz chart and the Brazilian Jazz chart on the independent artists mp3tunes website during 2004-2005 - the latter, almost without break for several months.

Straight From The Source 2 - described by one reviewer as 'superbly crafted and eminently listenable... supremely lyrical tunes that make this the consummate second album" - followed in 2006 and proved equally popular, with I Should Know By Now reaching the finals of the Instrumental category in that year's UK Songwriting Contest.

End of Summer, (January 2012) and Mosaic(September 2015) again feature guitar-led latin and jazz-infused instrumentals, several of which reached the semi-finals of the UK Songwriting Contest.

Greg Walker also co-wrote the soul-jazz dance floor classic, Second Opinion, recorded and performed by Victor Haynes and available on the Expansion Records 2009 album, Soul Togetherness.

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