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Created on 2006-08-08 10:24:05 (#10863947), last updated 2006-08-31
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| Name: | jazzdoctor |
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| Location: | London, United Kingdom |
Professional jazz and blues pianist, composer, bandleader, teacher, author of several jazz and blues piano tutors. Husband of
fawsley. Wish I was a good dancer but am thankful for being able to play an instrument. Hate being put in boxes. Generally non-verbal (rarely listen to song lyrics and have only scant appreciation of poetry) but can write words OK. Studied Engineering, Physics, Geology & Chinese Civilisation at University but knew in my heart I wasn't cut out to be a scientist. Pragmatist approach to most things - dislike purists, wafflers and dry intellectualising. Like eccentrics, surrealist humour, red wine. Life is short and good friends are hard to find. Jazz does it for me because it satisfies the head, heart AND soul. But it can be really boring sometimes! Like any other kind of music, there's good and bad. But why do there have to be all these categories?
Interests (85):
1920s china, ancient history, archaelogy, aretha franklin, art galleries, bach, big train, bill evans, black and white movies, blues, booths silicon china, c20th fiction, camden town group, castles., cathedrals, chopin, cinema, classical music, cliff walking, collecting art postcards, collecting ceramics, comedy, composition, cubists, debussy, dr john, duke ellington, eigg, english transferware, fauves, freddie king, frederick rhead, gamelan, german expressionists, hebrides, henry butler, hillwalking, impressionists, improvisation, james booker, jazz, landscape, mccoy tyner, medieval history, messiaen, miles davis, monty python, moroccan music, muddy waters, mull, newlyn school, otis spann, paintings, pharoah sanders, photography, playing the piano, professor longhair, prokofiev, rachmaninoff, ravel, ray charles, reading, rhum, scarlatti, scottish colourists, scottish islands, sea birds, shostakovich, skye, st kilda, stone circles, surrealists, the mighty boosh, the sea, the simpsons, the sketch show, thelonious monk, trigger happy tv, turkish music, vintage tableware, visual art, wilderness, wood & sons, world music, wynton kelly
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