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- Keith Whiting
- Born in London England, I started playing drums at 7 and played semi-professionally at 12. Turned professional at 15 and played throughout England and into Germany. As a member of the band Rare Amber I recorded a spectacularly unsuccessful album, which for some strange reason is now a collectors item and sells for ridiculous amounts of money! But the life of a starving musician lost it’s appeal and I started working at Phillips Records as an assistant recording engineer. At 18 I was hired by Decca Records as a record producer. I stayed there until moving to Canada at 21. I continued to work as a freelance producer and as the senior music producer at CBC Radio. I worked with most of the top names in jazz including - Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Pat Metheny, Woody Herman, and many others. I produced the Gold Certified Album “Black Noise” by the group FM, and formed the world beat group “Kaleefah” and “The Gospel Project”. More recently I turned to writing and wrote a number of plays, including “Stride”, a story about a young Stride piano player in 1938 Chicago. I produced an album of the music for the play, which won “Classic Jazz Album of the Year”.
Amazing what you stumble onto in cyberspace isn't it? For a short time in the mid '60s we were involved in a band together, I was Steve Bonnett then - now I'm known as Steve Van-Deller. We didn't gig much. I think we mainly spent our time having our pictures taken looking down from the balcony of the block you lived in, in Southfields: aping the Beatles Please Please Me cover. I've been a musician, a songwriter, an actor (briefly), a TV graphic designer, a documentary maker and now I'm a design lecturer, still playing music... Sounds like you've had a good life too!
ReplyDeleteWow that was a long time ago! Are you still living in London? It would be great to speak to you. Is there somewhere I can contact you?
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