Andy Peate

Andy Peate - All Round Musician in Birmingham

INTRODUCING ANDY PEATE WHO IS REGARDED AS A VERY VERSATILE MUSICIAN BEST KNOWN AS A TOP JAZZ TRUMPETER AND JAZZ BACKING TRACKS CREATOR IN THE WEST MIDLANDS.

AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER, ANDY PEATE HAS PLAYED BRASS AND KEYBOARDS AT TOP LEVEL IN BANDS PLAYING JAZZ (traditional and mainstream/modern), BIG BAND, BLUES FUNK/FUSION, GOSPEL, SKA, SOCA, REGGAE, FOLK, COUNTRY & WESTERN, AND MAINSTREAM POP OF ALL DECADES. HIS REPERTOIRE IS THEREFORE VERY VARIED AND EXTENSIVE.

ANDY PEATE IS ALSO TOTALLY AT HOME AS A SOLO PIANIST, HAVING PLAYED IN HOTEL FOYER/LOUNGE BARS, RESTAURANTS, CLUBS ETC., AND HIS SPECIALITY IS BLUES AND BOOGIE WOOGIE, AT WHICH HE IS RECKONED AN ACKNOWLEDGED MASTER. THE ADDED DIMENSION PROVIDED BY HIS TRULY OUTSTANDING JAZZ BACKING TRACKS (click here) SETS HIM APART FROM THE RUN OF THE MILL.

RECENTLY, ANDY PEATE HAS SPECIALIZED IN HIGH CLASS DUOS. SILHOUETTE (featuring YOLANDA PENN) IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF AN OUTSTANDING DUO IN THE WEST MIDLANDS.

THIS DUO FEATURES SOME OF ANDY'S JAZZ BACKING TRACKS: ANDY IS COMPILING A LIBRARY OF THESE, WHICH WILL BE ON SALE FROM THIS WEBSITE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE.

IN SHORT - Musical Versatility A Speciality!

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JAZZ BACKING TRACKS SAMPLES NOW ONSITE - click here to go to them

About Andy Peate

Andy has been featured with a wide range of musicians, notable figures as diverse as Rustie Lee, Acker Bilk, Roy Wood, the late Jimmy Witherspoon (all time great American blues singer), and Andy Hamilton MBE, D.Mus., Birmingham's local jazz celebrity. He has also provided jazz backing tracks for Jamma, the world champion virtuoso steel pan player. And he is also a member of First Impression, a top-notch function band which performs country-wide.

For several years he was a sessional lecturer in popular music at South Birmingham College: most recently, he had a temporary spell at a school of music in Solihull, teaching beginners' keyboards, and has also become accompanist to a Gospel choir based in Aston, Birmingham.

As indicated elsewhere on this site, Andy's top class jazz backing tracks will shortly become available for sale. Previews for many of them are available here.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE TO SEE ANDY'S CURRENT CV.

Wedding Music in the Midlands

As you will see from the content of this site, Andy is capable of providing a wide range of music services for your wedding or other special occasion. For instance, if you wished to book each act individually (e.g. trumpet voluntary, trad jazz band, solo piano, dance band), you would undoubtedly have to pay a separate fee for each.

Andy can offer a degree of integration in this respect, in that various services can be in the nature of an "all-in-one" package, tailored to the needs of the occasion. The charge would be a single fee, which would certainly be less than if you had to book each act on its own, at the same time avoiding the hassle of making multiple phone calls.

PLEASE NOTE:-

WEDDING MUSIC PACKAGES CATERED FOR...

...BUT MUCH MORE THAN THAT...

IF YOU ARE ORGANIZING ANY EVENT WHICH REQUIRES MUSIC THAT INVOLVES MORE THAN JUST A CD PLAYER OR A DISCO (let's face it - most of them sound exactly the same, and the best ones aren't cheap either!), THEN YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO THINK OF LIVE MUSIC.

ANDY'S ABILITY, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE PUT HIM IN THE FOREFRONT OF LOCAL MUSIC PROVIDERS, THOUGH HE IS STILL PREPARED TO TRAVEL. HAVE A GOOD LOOK THROUGH THIS WEBSITE AND CHECK IT OUT...

PETE GILL - R.I.P. 17/3/09

THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF PETE GILL, AN OUTSTANDING SINGER AND MASTER CRAFTSMAN, WHO WAS EQUALLY RESPECTED AND LOVED BY MUSICIANS AND FANS ALIKE