I am a 66 year-old amateur musician who plays the guitar, bass, keyboards and harmonica. I have been playing music since I was 15. I started with folk music and rock music, I also played all sorts of styles, including rock, reggae, latino and pop in various dance or blues bands. I started studying jazz in the mid 80's on the guitar and I shifted to the jazz organ in the late 90s, but I had played the organ and keyboards since I was 19. <br /> <br />My main influences are Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Jimmy Smith, George Benson, Miles Davies, Rhoda Scott, Procol Harum, Steve Windwood, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Bill Evans, The Band, etc... . <br /> <br />At the moment I play the organ with a guitarist and a drummer in a jazz trio called FMR Jazz Trio. <br /> <br />I also play traditional and contemporary folk and blues with another guitarist and a bass guitarist, our band is called Long Tall Bob & Franck. We mainly play traditional and contemporary folk music and also blues. I learnt a lot about folk music techniques with musicians when I played in British pubs and folk clubs. <br /> <br />My instruments are an Ovation Balladeer electro-acoustic guitar, a Washburn 5-string banjo, a Charvell-Jackson electric guitar equipped with SH070 Shadow converter for midi, a Fender Precision bass guitar, a VK 77 combo jazz organ with a PK 77 pedal board and a 2021 Leslie cabinet plus a Peavey KB 100 amplifier for the bass rotor, Korg X3 and Yamaha DX11 synthetizers, and YamahaTG 55 and TX81Z expanders. I use a Yamaha QY100 hardware sequencer for practising and composing. I play several Hohner Blues Harps. <br /> <br />I use Cubase 5 Studio for demos and work. I edit synths with Emagic's Sound Diver. I started computer music on the Atari in 1987, so I have lived up to the whole Cubase story as I began with Pro 24. <br /> <br />I am a member of Jazzogène, which organizes jazz concerts and workshops in Périgueux.