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- Favorite Smooth Jazz Artist
- Marilyn scott
- E mail address
- http://peteroliver@mail.com
- About Me:
- START OF MUSIC BACKGROUND
Violin as a child, leader of school orchestra then local youth orchestra's
Royal school of music exams (external candidate)
Rebelled onto Guitar as a teenager then Bass playing Rock, Soul, Funk etc. Listened to jazz when possible it was not as available as in the USA.
Then self taught, school of life, playing and sitting in with some of the top local players, scary but necessary.
THE PLAYING YEARS
I worked for many years as as a gigging Guitar and Bass player playing Jazz in Trio's and Quuartets for dinner then anything from St Bernards waltz through to popular music for dance, cabaret, etc, in Hotels( Who Has'nt), also club jazz work mainly small group trio, quartet. Although I started in several Dance Bands run by friends of my Dad where I was the "apprentice". They permanently joked about my youth, but they were experienced players skilled in their art and did not suffer fools gladly.They were very supportive and I learned fast and it was an Honour to have worked with them!!
I also worked as a relief player for 2 local agents (life on the edge but fun) until an auto accident curtailed this a few years back. At the moment I have a small taxi business that pays the bills, but I want to experience that connection with an audience and other players again.I am making progress toward that goal and as an offshoot hope to upload some tunes . I won't be good enough to out full time but it would be nice just to be there and involved again. In the meantime Sites like The SMOOTH JAZZ NETWORK.COM, The JAZZ NETWORK WORLDWIDE - Jazz Player.com and Youtube are great therapy. I am meeting some amazing people and it's also keeping me up to speed with what is happening in jazz music.
"Alright " that's enough of the past. I am now practising on bass Guitar and guitar and making some progress, maybe I can post something here at some point.
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I thought you would enjoy this, if not just delete it.
-Norman