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Fred Spek

After hearing Boots Randolph and Louis Jordan on the cab radio, this ex 18-wheel truck driver ditches the stress of the road and picks up a saxophone. Lack of formal musical training can't stop a good guy from succeeding by being "bad". If Tiny Tim could do it, why not him and so Fred Spek trades the gear-shift for the wood-wind. He now leads and writes for his zany bachelor-pad lounge quartet CaMp CoMbO. Sax/singin', organ, guitar and drums.

Awards

2011 Ontario Arts Council Composers grant

Gear

Conn Pan American from the mid 1950s


Tags

Spike Jones
composer / conductor
Louis Jordan
saxophone, alto
Flip Phillips
saxophone, tenor
Lester Young
saxophone

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