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Brian Parker's Biography

At the age of 8 Brian won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Of Music to study violin, voice, and harmony. At 17, gained entrance to university to study architecture. This was where he developed his love for jazz and taught himself to play the double bass, to help him finance his studies, he also set up a jazz club at college.

He joined Sandy Brown's band and also played with many other notable musicians including; Louis Armstrong, Trummy Young, Ed Hall & Lionel Hampton.

Brian featured in the melody maker polls, and broadcast regularly and was also in demand for recording studios,

He then stepped back from the jazz scene, aged 24, having qualified as an architect and concentrated on a successful business career enabling him to retire to Spain in 1983.

1990 appeared on jazz programs in Spain on local radio.

1991 organized jazz concerts & venues for visiting Artists and began playing the double bass again.

1992 founded the "jazz appreciation society" of Andalucia, with Swedish singer Alice Babs (a singer With Duke Ellington).

He started to produce, present & engineer his jazz programs "All that jazz" on radio Onda Cero, which has a listenership covering both the Costa del Sol and Costa Brava. As well as over 200 linked stations throughout Spain.

Also in 1992 he started doing his interviews with top jazz musicians. Initially with old friends like Lionel Hampton. & Mercer Ellington.

He then invested in a recording studio for his home. This enabled him to produce top quality programs for the 6 hours of air time each weekend.

1996 interviewed 34 top jazz artists on the S.S. Norway jazz cruise. Including; , Al Grey, Illinois Jacquet, Milt Jackson, Joe Williams, Shirley Horn, Monty Alexander and Bud Shank.


1997 organized the first Marbella jazz festival.

2000 extended his studio to expand into international broadcasting over the Internet.

In the last 11 years Brian has broadcast over 3000 hours of jazz without repeating a record, except for a request or to illustrate a feature. His extensive personal library contains many thousands of albums including many rare recordings.

2001 launched www.jazz-radio.fm. Broadcasting 24 hours a day with different styles of jazz each day. The site is currently receiving over 150,000 hits a day, and has over 50 references on various search engines already.

Links with other major jazz sites and with the jazz musicians that have already been interviewed (over 150 to date) are being developed and the site is already in the top 10 "JAZZ RADIO" sites on the major search engines.

Further internet radio stations are planned (www.vocalradio.tv and www.relaxradio.fm) which will be on line this year.

The site has now gone onto broad band to enable as many listeners to log on at any time, without loss of quality.

Brian will soon be including features every week of the artists that he has interviewed over the years. And will continue expanding his quality jazz programs on the Internet Also he is considering syndicating his programs to other international radio stations.


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