After learning the piano at an early age,
Graham heard The Shadows' record of "Apache" on a juke box and
decided there and then that that was what he wanted to do. Hank Marvin
was responsible for getting him involved in playing music more than any
other musician, without exception. Graham then learnt to work the saxophone
and the flute and played with jazz combos in pubs in the late '60's. He
became a bass player when he sat in on the bass guitar on a gig while
the proper bass player went to the bar. A bandleader in the audience promptly
came up and offered Graham a six-night-a-week paid gig with a commercial
band in a hotel. So he went out and bought a bass!
He has played with all sorts of jazz combos from trad. to avant-garde,
and in pop groups, R.& B., Country & Western, as well as backing
cabaret. His claim to fame is that he once backed Bert Weedon in cabaret,
a name which causes most people he tells to say, "Who?".
He also plays alto sax and flute. "It's much more fun", he says, "when you can't quite do it properly"!
He joined Straight no Chaser in the middle of 2003.
