Name: Mark Cleary
Main Instrument: Guitar
Other Instruments Played: Bass in a pinch
Musical Education: Ill. Wesleyan University, Studied with my Father,
a Los Angeles
based
studio guitarist, Chicago guitarist Fred Rundquist.
Favorite Jazz Artist or Group: Martin Taylor, Joe Pass (the
late)
Favorite Jazz Piece: Miles Davis "On Green Dolphin
Street"
What do you like best about the Heartland Jazz Orchestra?
A chance to really play jazz and no commercial music.
To be able to continue the tradition of America's
"Original art form"
Other groups you play in or have played with? Ill. Wesleyan Jazz Band
79-83.
Central Ill. Jazz Society House Band, Pit
orchestra guitarist for musical
(Jacque Brel is Alive and
Well)
Other interest or hobbies? Catholic Religious Education teacher,
theology, Pastoral care
of sick and needy, Long distance
runner, guitar making.
Anything else....
Having studied and played guitar for 27 years I really enjoy playing
jazz.
You can't really make a living at music unless you
give up many things that are more
important you. I guess I
am still trying to play "thought the changes" and
create
interesting melodic lines against the harmonic
structure.
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