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Saxophones
Trumpets
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Trombones
Rhythm
Vocal
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Pete Deane - Musical Director
Pete started playing in Bristol playing sax in the school band led by his maths teacher Les Pursey in the mid 70's - who also created the Bristol Schools Dance Orchestra with Jack Fear.
Progressing from this Peter toured Spain, Germany and the UK with a small jazz rock band from Bristol -- the Fred Bloggs Band --playing a complete mix of jazz and rock. As a student in Plymouth Pete played with small groups, both jazz and commercial, as well as re-engaging with the Plymouth Arts Centre big band. Moving on from this Pete did stints with truly commercial bands in Bournemouth and Weymouth before moving to Surrey and initially playing with the SJO on Tenor Sax during the early 1980's when the band was playing at Ripley and then Woking. Although Pete had a 10 year absence when he lived in Yorkshire he rejoined the SJO in 1999 and has played many roles with the band since then - playing pretty much all of the sax chairs at one time or another. Now (2017) Pete takes on the leadership of the band and is delighted to be given such a great opportunity -with so may skilled and talented musicians. |
CLIVE CHASE - Bass!
Clive started playing music at age 14…..firstly piano, then drums, guitar and latterly bass…it then becoming his main instrument. He joined a London ‘pop’ group in 1963 weekly supporting such acts as The Rolling Stones, Hollies, Searchers, Mannfred Man, The Who, Spencer Davis, Fourmost, Mindbenders….....and many more besides.
Latterly he joined an 8 piece ‘function band’ and apart from thus honing his reading skills taught him much about arranging music…..especially from the, then, pianist Anne Dudley who became iconic for her recording, conducting and writing, putting aside her Novello awards!
It was in 1985 that, having just moved to the Woking area he received a call very late one Sunday morning from the, then, M.D. of SJO to ask if he could urgently play with them that lunchtime…..he did. He stayed with SJO until moving overseas in 1998 for some years….until then re-joining SJO very recently.
Clive loves both arranging, composing, and recording in his own studio.,..,,and, OF COURSE playing with SJO……!!
Clive started playing music at age 14…..firstly piano, then drums, guitar and latterly bass…it then becoming his main instrument. He joined a London ‘pop’ group in 1963 weekly supporting such acts as The Rolling Stones, Hollies, Searchers, Mannfred Man, The Who, Spencer Davis, Fourmost, Mindbenders….....and many more besides.
Latterly he joined an 8 piece ‘function band’ and apart from thus honing his reading skills taught him much about arranging music…..especially from the, then, pianist Anne Dudley who became iconic for her recording, conducting and writing, putting aside her Novello awards!
It was in 1985 that, having just moved to the Woking area he received a call very late one Sunday morning from the, then, M.D. of SJO to ask if he could urgently play with them that lunchtime…..he did. He stayed with SJO until moving overseas in 1998 for some years….until then re-joining SJO very recently.
Clive loves both arranging, composing, and recording in his own studio.,..,,and, OF COURSE playing with SJO……!!
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Glenn martin -- Drums
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