*I'm waiting for Bert to send me a picture!
Grafham Water Jazz Courses
Martin Kemp
plays, teaches, composes and arranges jazz. He plays a
powerful tenor, and is a genius on the clarinet. In the
London scene in the 1960s he played alongside Humphrey
Lyttleton, Sandy Brown, George Melly and Bruce Turner.
Moving to Cambridge in the 1970s, he has been very active
in teaching jazz to adults and in local schools,
including the award-winning Mad Hatters jazz band. He
gigs all around Cambridge and runs Out of the
Gallion, a resident band at
the Elm Tree,
Cambridge, and the nine piece Mingusology.
Bert
Schilperoort is a drummer, saxophonist, trombone
player, singer, physicist, philosopher and all round nice
guy. He teaches music and some of those other subjects,
around Cambridge, and gigs regularly, often with Martin.
Jazz saxophonist Josh
Kemp lives in London and performs around the
UK. After gaining a First in Philosophy at Oxford
University, Josh won scholarships to study jazz at
London’s Guildhall and Trinity College of Music. Since
then he has established himself as a saxophonist,
bandleader and composer.
Josh is also deeply involved in jazz education, directing the Cambridge Youth Jazz Orchestra and coaching at workshops and courses.
Vocal tutor
Ruth Applin writes:
"I discovered jazz in my teens and would always listen to
my dad's old records of Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong
and Duke Ellington, among others. I played piano in the
school jazz band and it was then that I also started to
have singing lessons. I love the old jazz songs and it
was always these that I wanted to sing."
After University, Ruth started gigging in restaurants and bars and then attended the prestigious postgraduate jazz course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. She now gigs regularly in venues in London and surrounding areas.
Jeremy
Kahn writes: "I've been playing music since I was
five years old (I was born in 1954 so that's a long time). I
play all sorts of music, but most of all I play jazz guitar
and bass. I also sing a lot of old folk songs and blues
music.
"I gig semi-professionally. I teach jazz at Grafham and occasionally on other jazz courses, and I give private guitar and jazz lessons."
