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The Aviators
With the inimitable Sam Kelly of Blues in Britain's Hall of Fame on drums, and jazz-funk musician, writer and producer Richard Sadler on upright and guitar basses, dazzling rhythmic interplay is the band's key feature - one of the reasons that it plays as many dance gigs as blues festivals. Featured three times on Paul Jones's BBC Radio blues show, repeatedly at UK and French blues festivals and at countless blues venues over the last thirty years, Giles Hedley is rightly described by Blues in Britain, the UK's top blues magazine, as a mainstay of British blues. Richard Sadler - bass guitar
Sam Kelly - drums
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Giles's bass player for eighteen years, Richard is better known as a freelance jazz and funk writer, bass and sax player, engineer and programmer, regularly appearing at the Montreux Jazz Festival. His album for Internal Bass Records with "Down to the Bone" topped Jazz FM's charts for two years and following albums also reached No.1. "From Staten to Manhattan" became fifth best-selling jazz album in USA. He wrote, arranged, produced and played on Internal Bass album "The Adventures of an FF Man" and continues to work with "Down to the Bone". For many years a session musician in brass sections for pop and rock acts, he is busy playing double bass on the UK jazz circuit, playing sessions for many bands - notably Ray Davies (Kinks). He teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Richmond on Thames summer schools.
Voted British Blues Connection's Drummer of the Year five years running and Giles's drummer for sixteen years, Sam is a familiar face on the circuit with his own band