I used to play along to Benny Goodman records when I was sort of 12 to 13. In the meantime, I was listening to… my parents were very into jazz, and that’s kind of 30s, their generation, so we had Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Goodman. I used to go to folk clubs with my older brother, who’s a very good guitar player, and I used to take my flute along and did my first paid gig when I was about 16. I took up with clarinet for a while and then I played guitar for a while and then I played flute. And then I started playing various music and instruments. So I was fairly experienced by the time I was eleven. We used to go round doing concerts in churches and town halls and all this sort of stuff. So that was how it all started, really, because I was obviously reading music by the time I was sort of nine, ten years old, working with this what became quite a big recorder thing. When I went to senior school, grammar school as it was then, I carried on going to… he had this Saturday morning thing and I carried on going to this thing that he ran. He transcribes a lot of classical work, so at the age of eight or nine I was playing kind of Bizet, you know, and Bach, stuff like that. But I started playing recorder when I was about six or seven, and I had a fantastic teacher, a Canadian guy called Murray Carmac and he kind of saw I had a bit of talent, and so he included me in this… he had this recorder group that he’d written a whole bunch of stuff for. Rubie: My parents were musical in the sense of there was music in the house but they didn’t play musical instruments. Interviewer : And then just tell me a bit about your background in music, and were you parents particularly musical? How did you get into music and jazz? Rubie: 14th-10-52 and I was born in Buckinghamshire. Interviewer : And could you tell me your date of birth and where you were born, please? Rubie: Sure, my name’s Steve Rubie and that’s spelled R-U-B-I-E. Interviewer: Okay, so, if we just may start with… could you just let me know your name and spell your name for me, please?
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