Ed Seymore is Le Jazz Musette's guitar and reed instrument player. He grew up in an isolated company-owned sawmill town near Astoria, Oregon, where he began playing clarinet in the grade school band. His parents had an amazingly diverse collection of 78 rpm records, and he was exposed to quality music from earliest childhood -- dixieland jazz, big band, Mills Brothers, Ink Spots, Spike Jones (don't laugh, his band was great). His parents also had the classic Canadian record of the Great Farting Contest, which may explain some of his more questionable efforts. He dropped out of music for a while after high school where he learned saxophone, but took up bluegrass music in his twenties, becoming a fairly good banjo and dobro player.

He took up jazz guitar at about age 50, playing with Tom Hume Sr. and Mark Runions in weekly basement sessions. He has an aversion to music lessons and is completely self-taught, which unfortunately shows from time to time, and he has never had any particular urge to be a performer -- it's all a big puzzle to be figured out, more of a mind game / aesthetics pursuit than an avenue to stardom -- which is what you'd expect from the Ultimate Introvert.

Ed is a retired mathematician and devotes his spare time to music, photography, and lawn maintenance.

 

 

 

 

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