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Greetings from Oregon
My name is Jack Vogel, I am a professional software engineer,
currently working at Intel, but having spent long years at IBM and Sun Microsystems as well. I do Unix kernel development work. Trained in music since 5 years old, played trumpet and baritone in band in high school, piano throughout my life, I have not only a Schimmel grand piano I love, but also a Roland X8 synth. Starting playing guitar and EB maybe 15 years ago which led me to an interest in jazz. Because I never could as a kid, I took up sax at that time, and did some community jazz playing with that. But I decided to go back to the strings, and started playing string bass with an eye to jazz about 5 years ago. A coworker at Intel got me interested in community symphony opportunities, I now play in two, and although I still love jazz, there is nothing else I've found that I love as much as the bow, I only wish I had 8 hours a day to play it. I have spent the last year taking lessons from a student of Rabbath's here in town, but I feel I've hardly scratched the surface yet. Doing a concert tomorrow afternoon playing Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto, and when I get to perform him it just brings tears to my eye, its such an honor. Nice to be in a virtual community with others who love this instrument as much as I. Jack |
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Hi Jack, welcome aboard
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Hey Jack,
I liked reading about you. You write well. It's neat to have you on Ken's Corner. Richard |
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