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Peter Ind
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Peter Ind was born on July 20, 1928 in Uxbridge Middlesex. U.K. He played on the ship the Queen Mary (1949-51) before settling in New York (1951), where he taught, and performed and recorded with Lennie Tristano (1951), Lee Konitz (1954-57), and Buddy Rich (1957).
He established a recording studio in 1957, and in 1961 started his own record company, Wave. His album Looking Out (1958-61, Wave 1) includes solos, duos with Joe Puma and the drummer Dick Scott, and tracks recorded with a trio and with a quartet. While living in Big Sur, California (1963-6), he became the first double bass player to give concerts and broadcasts as an unaccompanied soloist. In 1965 he played with Konitz and Warne Marsh. Thereafter he returned to England and continued to perform, teach and manage Wave. He toured with Konitz and Marsh in 1975-6. In 1984 he opened the Bass Clef in London, which became one of the city's most popular clubs. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Peter Ind was always fascinated not only with playing jazz but also recording it and seeing how sounds could be mixed. As soon as he had earned enough money from playing in New York he bought his first tape machine in 1953 - a modest single track tape recorder. By 1957 he had purchased state of the art recording equipment and was one of the first to record jazz in stereo. Many famous recordings were made in his loft in New York in the 50's and early 60's - Zoot Sims, Gerry Mulligan, Booker Little.
He founded his own company, Wave, in 1961 with the release of his first featured album; Looking Out. He was also one of the first experimenters doing overdubbing in multi-tracking and varispeed in the 1950's. Now a well known practice, but at the time he was heavily criticised. He made the very first rhythm tracks together with the drummer, Jeff Morton. These were used in Lennie Tristano's now legendary recordings for Atlantic Records. He was also an experienced sound engineer often recording for other major companies, including Atlantic Records, Verve Records, Bethlehem and Warwick.
He then established Wave in the UK in 1967, when he returned to London and through it released a number of his own private recordings. He set up Wave studios as a recording facility in Hoxton Square (a run down area in East London still showing the effects of bomb damage). The new Wave premises eventually became host to the jazz venue Bass Clef and Peter continued his passion for recording.
Since the jazz club closed Peter has refocused on recordings and through the new company Wave Marketing he has begun to produce a selection of high quality classic jazz CD's and re-released some of the most requested vinyls on CD.
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