Peter Jackson

I began playing in a gospel band in the 60s back in Nottingham, England, and then minored in classical guitar at college in the 70s, joining a quartet led by Brian Whitehouse.  In the 80s, I took up electric guitar and played around town in Saint Louis, sitting in with rock bands like Memphis Underground.

On moving to the Twin Cities in the 90s, I took up bass guitar, doing two years of concertizing with the Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra, as well as recording sessions on a folk-rock album with Tom & Cathy Plantenberg.  I then joined the jazz quintet Caterwaul out of the West Bank School of Music with Paul Renz and Lisa Meyer, playing original music in local bars and restaurants.  I also helped produce a Dennis Spears album.

Since 2004, I have gone back to electric guitar, playing in the Jazzkickers sextet with Carmin Pluntz, Gregory Bannister, Tim Wick, Steve Proper and Gary Berosik.  We do mostly corporate and charity gigs in the last quarter of each year.

Since 2008, I have also been studying jazz piano with Bryan Nichols at the MacPhail Center for Music.

Playing the blues on my Gibson Robot Les Paul, an innovative self-tuning guitar with sensors and servomotors, with Kimberly Michaels on vocals