ARTIST BIO
Charlie is a Leeds/Kent based innovative, explorational and collaborative saxophonist whose musical style has varied influences spanning from west coast, modal, free and fusion jazz. With a passion for experimental, risk taking, open minded music, Charlie thrives when playing with others as well as unique solo situations.
Skills:
- High level of sight reading
- High level of jazz improvisation
- Classically Trained
- Plays Alto, Tenor, Baritone and Soprano
Imaginary husband:
Throughout his time in Leeds, Charlie has worked with Imaginary Husband the band, playing at Hyde Park Book Club supporting ‘Legs’, as well as headlining Sheffield at the Alder Bar, Sheffield, playing alongside various noise bands in the local scene such as Clive and Paid By Cash.
Upcoming projects/Aspirations
- Charlie has recently formed a Jazz Fusion band, The Garlando, with fellow students Eddie Holland, Robin Davis and Noah Stand. This quartet aspires to conquer the Jazz scene in Leeds, with covers as well as originals. A link to their music follows: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JnIorV5xWPzyziaeJ9KJ_oxheOSTxFjE/view?usp=sharing
- A long term aspiration of Charlie’s is to be a touring musician for larger artists.
- As well as this, Charlie is constantly writing new solo material that he hopes to release in the near future.
STUDIO WORK:
Charlie has completed an A Level in Music Technology, and enjoys various studio work. This includes session musician work as well as engineering. He has mixed and produced an unreleased single for ‘The Skerts’, a Canterbury based indie band.
ENSEMBLE WORK
Charlie has a passion for working in larger ensembles including, Leeds Conservatoire Pit Band, Concert Band, Saxophone Orchestra and previous projects such as Simon Langton Girls Grammar School Pit Band, Soul n Funk Collective, Saxophone Ensemble and SATB Choir. Away from educational setting Charlie has partook in the Folkestone Swing Band as well as Kent Youth Jazz Orchestra.
His Pit Band experience is concentrated at the Malthouse Theatre in Canterbury, where he performed musicals such as: Matilda, Little Shop of Horrors, Les Miserables, Grease and Joseph and the Technicolored Dream Coat.
While studying at Leeds Conservatoire, he has performed at All Saints Church with Concert Band for a Christmas service.
As well as participating in various groups, Charlie ran the Simon Langton Girls Grammars School Jazz band for 2 years.
Current and previous studies
- Currently perusing a degree in Undergraduate Jazz Performance at Leeds Conservatoire, Charlie has aspirations to complete a Masters degree in London.
- Prior to this, Charlie studied A Level Music, Music Technology and Business at Simon Langton Girls Grammar School.
Contact Info
The Garlando contacts:
thegarlando@gmail.com
Instagram – thegarlando
Charlies contacts:
charliemowl@outlook.com
Analysis:
I chose to format my Electronic Press Kit as a word press rather than website as I believe when contacting promoters it’ll be easier to navigate and read. With a website, there’s usually a range of buttons and sections to visit, and promoters are likely to skim over importnat information. With a pdf format I believe this is less likely to happen. For example, Loyle Carners website, while it is extremely creative and attractive to the aesthetic eye, it can be slow and hard to navigate. Loyle Carner may aim to please a larger audience, and add to his image, whereas my aim is to be straight to the point, and transparent. Another observation is that Loyle Carner does not have one stand out image. I believe its particularly eye capturing and memorable to include one headline image for promoters and fans to remember you buy, and solidify a public image. Dijon does this perfectly, as soon as you visit his page you are struck by a strong black and white image of him in a studio, achieving a clear theme. Black and white constantly returns throughout his artwork, as well as a studio theme. Personally, I think this works perfectly with Dijons image and I aspire to have such correlation throughout my future marketing. Contrasting to this, Earl Sweatshirt uses multiple different editing styles of photography and artwork, for example the artwork credited to ‘Ryosuke Tanzawa’ follows a specific colour grading to the ‘Live Laugh Love’ artwork – however in other artwork credited to ‘Suga Sylla’ the grading and editing is completely different, disrupting the previously constant image. This is why my two main headlining photos follow a similar editing and style to each other, trying to solidify a memorable title. In the future I aspire to have some professional headshots taken with and without my instrument, to display a clearer portrayal of what my music is about. I also aspire to have some professional testimonials to pair with these shots. Another artist who has a transparent, easily digested electronic press kit is Yolandra Rhodes. She has a clear image of herself on the right, next to an ‘about’ paragraph. The ‘about’ section has a plain, legible font, which I believe id particularly important – making the electronic press kit available and easy to read for all. This is why I have chosen to keep my layout very plain and accessible.
One of my classmates, Chloe Blood, was telling me during our group discussion how she is going to make her background blue, and have a very colourful page. I then told her how I thought I would keep mine plain, and she agreed that for the approach I am taking to my EPK, a plain background would fit it perfectly, while her blue background still perfectly fits her eccentric image. Another of my classmates, Guillermo spoke about the fact he was going to submit his electronic press kit in the form of a website. I thought this sounded very professional, in the future I strive to reach this level of profession and organisation. Making a website felt as if it didn’t fit the function of my electronic press kit. As a striving session mission/touring musician my ways of presenting my skills and experience will naturally be presented differently than a singer/song writer. However, I can picture myself curating a website in the future, at this point in time an easily accessed pdf felt more appropriate. Charlie Morley was also present in this discussion, and he took a similar approach to me in creating an electronic press kit for the function of becoming a session musician/touring musician. He also agreed that a simple pdf format would be more appropriate – so this strengthened my confidence in my decision.
In the future, when I have gained more experience, a website I admire is Miguel Zenons press kit. He has some really inspirational shots, paired with cover works and testimonials, my aim is to curate something on this level. More professionally recorded performance videos would really boost my press kit too. Although I have one link, it feels quite casual and not up the the standard i strive for in the long term. A goal of mine is to hire professional videographers and photographers for upcoming gigs in order to achieve a higher standard of press kit. Further more, professional recordings and photos would help boost social medias and help me start my own personal social media. Charlie Morley was also very influential on my artist bio, suggesting I mention some of my general influences. When reading Charlies artist bio I also noticed he used a complex, more specific description. I tried to imitate this with the words I used to describe my playing. I believe ‘innovative, explorational and collaborative’ are perfect to outline my unique playing style. I am always pulling ideas from various artists and genres, and learning about new cultures music – for example i’ve been immersed in Indian ragas and trying to introduce this into my playing. Additionally, I am consistently attending jams, playing with friends and strangers at any time I can, displaying a strong collaborative nature.
Other sections included were also workshopped within my group work sessions. Max Rumsby suggested the use of mentioning our degrees within this group work, so I chose to include the section ‘current and previous studies’ I think at my stage within the industry and profession, this is highly important to include, whereas after studies have been completed perhaps only one sentence about my jazz degree will be needed, as I will hopefully have gained masses of experience to discuss instead. Max thought my production experience was appropriate to mention, and encouraged me to include it, I also agreed that in the future I am still eager to continue this side of music, and believe I have a great talent for working with other musicians in not just an ensemble setting but in a producer musician relationship. Max and I agreed this is an extremely special skill to hold and that promoters/hirers will greatly value this. I think this is also where my admiration for Dijons press kit arises from, mixing his musical performance with electronics and production – in his press shots too – picturing him as the focal point in a studio with large decks. A section that I can be working on for the future is ‘upcoming gigs’, recently The Garlando has received multiple gig invitations from Sela Bar, Northern Guitars and the Chemic Tavern. The band aspires to tackle the Leeds scene over these next two years during our studies, and in the future I might’ve chosen to focus the electronic press kit on the band itself. Additionally, I have received an invitation to play a gig at “Malt” on Malty Street, London, with a friend from Royal College of Music. Additionally, I hope to pursue some gigs in my home town over the summer period to expand my network connections in Kent too. Now that I have written this press kit I will be more equipped to produce one for the band.
Something the band has that I have not is professional socials, I currently choose not to have a professional social media for my music as I do not feel prepared for this stage. As someone new to this industry, I’d like to find my feet before establishing myself online, however this is something I can add in the future. Over the summer, this can be a project to work on. At this moment in time having an electronic press kit feels like enough, but moving forward to achieve larger projects, social media will definitely aid me – allowing me to reach larger and more broad audiences, from much further afield, which could for example help achieve a longer tour, rather than restricting myself to my local area. Social media can also prompt others to reach out to you, rather than constantly send a press kit around to venues and promoters. Another feature I was unsure on including was about teaching experience. In 2023-2025 I taught saxophone to two people from year 7 at my school as a part of a scheme to make music tuition more readily available. I decided this didn’t seem professional enough, as well as expanding my press kit over too many topics. After already talking about performance and production, I decided that adding teaching would be unneccesary and irrelevant to the career path I am aspiring towards. I mentioned this to my classmate Lewis Nash, and he advised me that the press kit wouldnt be a suitable place to discuss teaching experiences due to the nature of it. The point of the press kit in his eyes was to express performance experience, skills and abilities, and that teaching verged on more practical job experiences, and might lead the reader astray. To combat this, I would have had to create a press kit with a different intention.
Bibliogrpahy:
Loyle Carner. (2025). Sunday December 14th 2025 – Sole DXB. [online] Available at: https://loylecarner.com/hopefully/.
Warner Records Press. (2025). Warner Records Press | Dijon. [online] Available at: https://press.warnerrecords.com/dijon [Accessed 2 May 2026].
Miguelzenon.com. (2025). Press Kit – Miguel Zenón. [online] Available at: https://miguelzenon.com/press-kit/ [Accessed 13 May 2026].
Epkbuilder.com. (2026). EPK | yolandra-rhodes. [online] Available at: https://epkbuilder.com/epks/example-epk/yolandra-rhodes [Accessed 13 May 2026].
