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Jim Manley – jazz trumpet musician, composer

Jim Manley – jazz trumpet musician, composer

Jim Manley – King Of the High C’s Jim Manley is an American Trumpet/ Flugelhorn, Composer, Arranger, and Clinician located in St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A. Jim is known in top professional brass circles as the ‘high note’ specialist. The guy that can play everything up and octave with a big fat beautiful tone and make it all look like a walk in the park. But of course, there’s a lot more to Jim Manley than stratospheric high notes played with laser-beam accuracy. Experience the experience of experience A veteran of over 10,500 gigs and with 17+ albums under his belt
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Andrew Oh – Walk In Fields Of Gold

Andrew Oh – Walk In Fields Of Gold

Andrew Oh – Fields Of Gold You might not know the name but you will surely have heard his playing! Andrew Oh is a Singapore-born Australian musician. An extremely accomplished Saxophonist and Flautist Andrew has worked with international artists like Al Jarreau, Roberta Flack, Sammy Davis Jr., The Bee Gees, John Denver, and The Drifters. Australian artists Andrew has worked with include Tommy Emmanuel, Margaret Urlich, Marcia Hines, Daryl Braithwaite, Grace Knight, Anthony Warlow, Doug Parkinson to name but a few. Collaboration As rapid changes in technology advance and allow never-before opportunities in music-making the successful 21st-century musician must learn
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Jazz Guitar Lessons |Gympie

Jazz Guitar Lessons in Gympie jazz guitar | guitar lessons | gympie If jazz guitar is your passion, you’ve come to the right place; whatever the musical setting whether it’s solo guitar, trio, quartet or guitar ensemble we’ve got it covered! There’s more to playing jazz guitar than simply owning a jazz style guitar … The Art Of Jazz Rhythm Guitar The true art of rhythm guitar and properly-balanced chord progressions as exemplified by Herb Ellis, Freddy Green, Barry Galbraith and a small circle of jazz masters is a craft. Rhythm guitar and it’s subtle role in the mainstream jazz rhythm-section
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Australian Jazz Guitarist – Charlie Lees

Australian Jazz Guitarist Charlie Lees jazz guitar | guitar lessons | gympie Australian Jazz Guitarist Charlie Lees (Charles Anton Lees) was born in Mosman N.S.W in 1913. Prior to settling into music Charlie travelled the world with his parents. Eventually at the age of fifteen he settled in New Zealand, spent a few years in college eventually leaving to study music Charlie moved to Sydney, Australia in the early 1930’s after five frustrating months in Sydney his reputation began to spread. Everybody wanted him. Jim Davison and Frank Coughlan (the two biggest names in prewar Australian music) – and several
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Australian Jazz Guitarist – Bruce Clarke

jazz guitar | guitar lessons | gympie Australian Jazz Guitarist Bruce Clarke Bruce Clarke born December 1st, 1925. In 1942 Bruce commenced music, theory and steel guitar lessons at the Melbourne Hawaiian Club. Teacher – Tui Hamilton, a Maori musician. In 1948 Bruce entered full-time professional music with two important jazz ensembles, one led by Don Banks, the other led by Splinter Reeves and Charlie Blott and particapated in the first Australian modern jazz recordings for the Jazzart label and ABC radio’s first modern jazz broadcasts. During the period 1950-54 he performed in jazz concerts or tours with Australian and
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Australian Jazz Guitarist – George Golla

Australian Jazz Guitarist George Golla jazz guitar | guitar lessons | gympie The Australian Jazz Guitarist George Golla was born on the 10th May, 1935. George commenced studying guitar in 1955 after having played clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and double-bass. His professional life began in 1956 with the advent of television – he appeared on Bandstand for 28 years. Golla appeared regularly in Eric Jupp’s ” Magic of Music ” series for fourteen years. In 1957 he joined Don Burrows to form a trio with bassist, Ed Gaston. In 1973 the NSW Conservatorium employed him as a teacher in the newly
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Australian Jazz Guitarist – Don Andrews

Australian Jazz Guitarist Don Andrews jazz guitar | guitar lessons | gympie Australian Jazz guitarist Don Andrews was born on the 29th May, 1929. Following some early musical training on the violin he began studying the Guitar seriously at the age of 10 years. Don states that there were four people  responsible for his musical growth: Phillip Skinner, with whom he studied the guitar in his early days, Ralph Skinner, an American Arranger attached to a U.S Army Band stationed for a time in Sydney during the war, John Collins, guitarist with Nat Cole, and his wife Monica. Some of
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Aust Jazz Guitarist – Peter McCarthy

Australian Jazz Guitarist Peter McCarthy   jazz guitar | guitar lessons | gympie Australian Jazz guitarist Peter McCarthy was Australia’s first studio guitarist. When Peter took his guitar into the ABC Melbourne studios in 1928 he set the ball rolling for Australian studio guitarists. McCarthy opened the door for studio guitarists and in the years up to 1940 the first generation of “jazzy-type” guitarists rushed through and established themselves in the broadcast and dance band worlds. The Mike Hayes Guitar Studio, offers jazz guitar lessons covering all styles of jazz guitar playing. Looking for jazz guitar lessons in Gympie? Whatever
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Jazz Guitarist Rick Farbach

Australian Jazz Guitarist Rick Farbach jazz guitar | guitar lessons | gympie Australian Jazz Guitarist Rick Farbach has done it all! From respected musical director at TV Channels 0, 7 and  9 in Brisbane to backing national and international artists such as Shirley Bassey, Sammy Davis jnr., Stanley Black, Julie Anthony, Barry Crocker, John Farnham etc., to playing guitar with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. On TV shows he backed countless television stars, and performed on ABC Radio many times with his own groups, as well as with others (Robert Boughen Ensemble, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and more). From 1964 Rick was
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