Players
Here’s a brief rundown on each of the players in Take3
Kate Hill
piano
Kate plays and teaches – piano and voice. After graduating in piano and voice from Trinity College of Music, London, she continued her studies for a further year with the help of a Vaughan Williams Scholarship in performance.
Her subsequent work has included extended engagements in London hotels including the Cavendish Hotel, Sheraton Park Lane Hotel and Café Royal as well as P&O cruise work onboard the Canberra, Oriana and Sea Princess where she performed in jazz bars and backed cabaret artistes. Further study followed at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA.
Since then, Kate has worked as a musical director in theatre, and sung and toured with a variety of choirs, most notably Studium – a Spanish, 16-voice chamber choir. She currently works with the Malvern Big Band, Take3 and the No Strings jazz trio and teaches jazz and popular vocals at Malvern Girls’ College.
Dave Etheridge
upright and electric bass
Born in the market town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, Dave took up the double bass in school at the age of 13 and completed his formal musical training on graduating in double bass and conducting from the Royal College of Music, London.
After graduation, Dave immediately scored a gig touring the UK with Stephan Grappelli in the ‘Back to the Hot Club’ line-up featuring Diz Disley and Denny Wright on guitars. “I started at the top and worked my way down” is how Dave prefers to describe his subsequent career in music.
He has since worked with over eighty different acts from the worlds of classical, folk, jazz and jazz rock music including Robin Lumley, Peter Skellern, Dave ‘Clem’ Clempson, Mickey Baker, Nigel Kennedy, Digby Fairweather and Martin Taylor.
In addition to playing in Take3, the Malvern Big Band and freelance playing, Dave reviews musical instruments, pens feature articles for music magazines, writes arrangements and records sound tracks in his Malvern home studio.
Peter Bailiht
guitar
Hailing from Adelaide in Australia, Peter was given his first guitar as a present for his 12th birthday. Captivated by the instrument, his first ‘band’ – a duo with drummer Chris Hart – was formed within a few years. “I simply played the chords to tunes, whilst Chris accompanied me on kit. There were no melodies - I didn’t know any!” exclaims Peter. The duo soon enlarged, firstly into a trio, then a quartet and quintet, and gigs in and around Adelaide followed.
His first introduction to modern players like the Brecker brothers occurred whilst enrolled on a short jazz course in Burghausen, Germany in 1982. Back in Adelaide and eager to learn more, he completed a diploma in performing arts at the South Australian College of Advanced Education in 1986 whilst continuing to gig.
Since settling in the UK in 1988, Peter has performed in Spain, Estonia, London and gigged extensively throughout the West Midlands with the Dutch Lewis Quartet, the Ralph Allin Quartet, played in guitar duos and held down jazz club residencies.
Photographs taken by Martyn f. Chillmaid