MUSICIAN
Graham Strachan is also an accomplished jazz musician. Starting out as a drummer in high school dance bands he turned to piano in his early twenties. Mostly self taught, he helped pioneer the wave of jazz popularity during the early 1970s at Sydney’s legendary Rocks Push with his trio ‘Rufus McNasty’; he worked the Sydney club circuit at its peak; played on the P&O liners 'Oronsay' and 'Arcadia'; played in piano bars from Adelaide through to Queensland's Gold Coast and Cairns; did radio broadcasts (ABC’s The Piano and Me), and TV spots (Dinah Lee, Ugly Dave Gray Show and more); wrote background music for television (Chris Conroy's World of Boats and Leisure); he has worked with top American altoist Ritchie Cole (Brisbane Jazz Festival 1993), West Coast guitarist Cal Collins, Australia’s trumpeter Bob Barnard, clarinetist Mileham ('Doctor Jazz') Hayes and countless others. He has appeared at the Noosa and other local Jazz Festivals numerous times in recent years.
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