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Paul Pitt
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2009 "Willie Lee Brown" blues
and Doo-Wop (So. San Diego)
2009 "The Lost Notes" DIck Lloyd
2009 "The Saints" swing
and jazz band (San Diego)
2009 Swing Street band (Tom Conti's band)
2009 Blues group -- Tuesday nights
(Kadan's Tavern)
2009 St.
Paul's Assisted Living Home
2009 Pacific Pointe Retirement
Home
2008 San Diego Folk
Song Society
2008 Swing Street band
(Tom Conti's band)
2008 Paragon Band (guest musician)
2008 Hal Jellison's jazz dance band
2008 Cuyamaca State Park's 75th Birthday
2008 Southwestern
College -- mariachi band
2008 North Park Senior dance band
2008 Monday Night Jazz Group -- trio
2008 Country Western Sunday Group
2008 Blues group -- Wednesday
nights
2008 Jeanettes "open"
Jam
2008 San Diego Folk Singers Jam -- Sundays
2008 Slo Jam (folk music)
2008 Ronald McDonald House
2008- 2006 WOW Annual Outing (sing-a-long)
2008 St. Paul's Assisted Living Home
2008 Pacific Pointe Retirement
Home
2007 Inland
Bluegrass & Folk, Temecula
2007 Old Tyme Music Players, San Diego
2007 most of the jams listed in 2008
2006 Slojam
San Diego, CA
2006 Fuddruckers, La Mesa, CA (jamming)
2006 summer Ronald McDonald House, Wednesdays
2006 Lazy River Jazz Band (San
Diego) guitarist
2005 to 2006 Two Listener's Church, Oceanside, CA
2005 to 2007 San Diego Bluegrass Society
2001 to Present: playing/singing at private parties, churches, children
1986 to 1995: South Orange county & Dana Pt. Harbor
1979 to 86: Santiago De
Compostella Church, Msn Viejo
1986 to 1995 Piano/guitar duet San Juan Capistrano
1986 - 1997 SASS
at Coto de Caza (cowboy)
1969-75: Southern & Central Illinois - Blues, Country & Folk
1963-67: Chicago (blues bands)
1959 to 62 - USN: E.M. club Sonar School, San Diego '59 - '60
1957 - 1958 Johnny Rector's Jazz Knight's Chicago '56 to '59
1959 Sat in with Art
Van Damme Quintet, CMI/Gibson
1958 - 1959 Vince Chewning Band, Chicago (dance & polka)
1956 - 1958 formal lessons Karnes Music, Evanston Illinois
B.S. - Loyola University of Chicago; Liberal Arts.
M.A. - Roosevelt University; management
Teaching:
2001 -- >2005 Learning Annex
1999 to 2001 Army and Navy Academy
in Carlsbad
1994 to 1997 Saddleback College, Mission Viejo.
1988 to 1998 Helms Group, Long Beach
1978 to 1990 International City
Management Association
1978 to 1990 Cal State Los Angeles
1969 to 1975 Project A69-15: Southern Illinois University
1971 to 1975 McHenry College, McHenry Illinois
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In 1956 the guitar had come of age age.
From Les Paul and Mary Ford to ELvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Kingston Trio, Harry Belefonte, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry
... and Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Wes Montgomery . ... and I had a job at the Gibson guitar distributor (Chicago
Musical Instrument 7300 N. Cicero Ave., Lincolnwood).
Bob Harris taught (Karnes Music in Evanston) jazz and blues and Chicago was, a jazz and blues town.
But Chicago was also a country and western town with Bob Atcher's National Barn Dance in Schaumburg not 15 miles
from my High School.
Blues and jazz were the thing at the Sutherland Hotel lounge at 64th and Drexel Ave.
Times were good and everybody had V8 cars (fast cars). It was the best times in the 20th century
Johnny
Rector (a fantastic jazz guitarist) also worked for CMI and taught me
a slew of jazz chords. He got me hooked up with Vince Chewning's Band (another CMI employee) and later with Art Van Damme's
band. Johnny was a great mentor.

Johnny Rector'
After the Navy I went to Loyola University on the GI Bill and played guitar in small groups (blues, polka, rock, jazz). You needed
a union card -- James
Petrillo was the musicians union in Chicago.
I moved to Carbondale in 1969; 400 miles south of Chicago in the Illinois "hill" country. Carbondale
is closer to Memphis than to Chicago. Kentucky and S.E. Missouri are across the river. It's definitely "country-western"
music. Back then Roy Acuff hosted the Grand Old Opry every Friday night on WSM Nashville.
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