Paul Pitt   619-249-5401   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

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.