Jamie Brooks is a pianist, keyboard player and composer/arranger. He was classically trained from the age of 5, but developed an interest in rock, jazz, funk and pop in his teens and started playing in local bands. Following A levels centred around classical music, he went to Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and did a combined BA degree in Music and Creative Music Technology followed by an MA in Music Performance.

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  • 1983-07-08 (xsd:date)
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  • Jamie Mark Brooks
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  • Jamie Brooks is a pianist, keyboard player and composer/arranger. He was classically trained from the age of 5, but developed an interest in rock, jazz, funk and pop in his teens and started playing in local bands. Following A levels centred around classical music, he went to Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and did a combined BA degree in Music and Creative Music Technology followed by an MA in Music Performance. He has toured and recorded with numerous bands in styles from ska, through rock and blues, to disco and funk. He is a currently playing for Soul Patrol and the London-based prog/metal/fusion band Linear Sphere and well as touring keyboard roles with The Neville Staple Band and Behind Bars. More recently he has been working with ex- The Enid founders, Francis Lickerish and William Gilmour on the Secret Green project and touring with Ed Rome and the Connectors. Despite touring, recording and session work for various bands, Jamie has continued to perform with his jazz trio (The Jamie Brooks Trio) and a number of successful solo piano recitals including Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition and a programme of Argentinian music; his piano transcription of Piazzolla's Libertango being particularly well received. In 2007, he composed the score for an independent short film - A Fistful ‘O Fishfingers – as well as playing piano in successful productions of ‘West End Story’ and ‘Anything Goes’. He now lives in Cambridge, England and continues to work extensively.
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  • Jamie Mark Brooks
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  • Jamie performing Brazilian Dawn in 2006
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  • Jamie Brooks
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  • Keyboardist, pianist, producer, arranger, backing vocalist
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  • 1999 - present
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  • Jamie Brooks is a pianist, keyboard player and composer/arranger. He was classically trained from the age of 5, but developed an interest in rock, jazz, funk and pop in his teens and started playing in local bands. Following A levels centred around classical music, he went to Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and did a combined BA degree in Music and Creative Music Technology followed by an MA in Music Performance.
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