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Simon Jay Harper
Studied orchestration and composition at UCLA, also a writer of music history.
Favorite singers: Frank Sinatra, Lennon, Elvis Presley, Bobby Bland, Robert Johnson, Paul McCartney, Johnny Hodges's sax, Charlie Parker's sax
Favorite writers: Robert Johnson, Michel Legrand, Duke Ellington, Borodin, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner (Meistersingers and Tristan), Stravinsky, Hindemith, Fats Waller, Charlie Parker, the new music fusing jazz, rock and classical music.
Also plays electric guitar (Stratocaster), and acoustic guitars including twelve string.
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"We should be recording this" A fan of an impromptu hostel busk, London