Peter Rubie

Peter Rubie is a musician and writer/editor who learned his trades at the same time in the early 1970s, working during the day in Fleet Street, London and later for BBC Radio News as a writer/editor, and on the weekends and at night studying jazz privately with jazz bassist and teacher Peter Ind, in London. He was the leader of the house band at the original 606 Club (www.606Club.com) venue in the Kings Road, London, before moving to the U.S., in 1981 to pursue a full time career in publishing and playing and studying jazz.

He has appeared at such New York City jazz venues as Birdland, Mezzrow, Walkers, Smalls, and Smoke, as well as the 606Club and Ronnie Scotts Club in London. He studied privately and has played with world famous jazz recordings artists such as Peter Ind, Warne Marsh, George Coleman, Dave Frank, Peter Bernstein, and Larry Koonse.

Notable jazz musicians he’s played with include Jack Wilkins, Kenny Wessell, singer Adelaide Hall, Mike Clark, Junior Cook, Patience Higgins, Martin Taylor, Claude “Fiddler” Williams, Bobby Wellins, Slide Hampton, Dave Cliff, Jim Mullen,and Emily Remler. He lives in New York City with his wife (a former opera and Broadway singer), and son, an avid jazz and classical violinist.

He writes regularly for the jazz website AllAboutJazz.com and his liner notes include three reissued albums for jazz great Jean-Luc Ponty for the German MPS/Edel label.