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Adrian Utley



Adrian Utley is a jazz guitarist from Bristol, England who is most widely known for his musical direction, guitar work and production of the "trip hop" band Portishead. Before collaborating with Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons in Portishead, Utley dedicated a large portion of his musical career to jazz, having been greatly influenced by Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Elvin Jones, but his musical interestes were never strictly limited to jazz, as he is noted to also have been influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Ennio Morricone, Mick Ronson, Herbie Hancock, Howlin Wolf, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Radiohead, The Beatles, Nirvana, Ravi Shankar, Gustav Mahler, Muddy Waters, Claude Debussy, Wes Montgomery, and Joy Division Utley not only excels at guitar, but also bass, piano, moog synthesizer] and horn and string arrangements.



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