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JIM BATES

Born 1940

I am sure you will enjoy this music from this talented composer.

Please note Jim's work is copyrighted, and is for personal downloading only, please ask permission of the composer
before  any other use.  His old email is  no longer valid,  I last heard from him in  2000 but you may  find him with a
google search.

I was born in Leicester,  England,  in 1940.  I had the usual  (at that time) piano lessons  from the age  of 7 to 9 but
I did not take any recognised tests or examinations. I left school at 16 and after an apprenticeship as a mechanical
engineer I eventually joined  the Royal Air Force as  an Air Radar Fitter.  This gave me training in  electronics which
has been my main career ever since. I learned to play the  saxophone in the various camp bands (it's was a little bit
difficult marching with a piano!) and developed a love of jazz and the big band swing of the 40's and 50's.

After I  left the RAF,  a succession of  jobs saw me gradually  move from raw  electronics into  computing and I  then
eventually started my own company writing system software for the IBM PC. When computer viruses first appeared
in the mid 80's  I started my  own research into  the techniques that they  used and this led to  my working with  the
Police on virus and hacking cases.   The work has now expanded into fully fledged computer forensic company which
sells hardware, software investigation services and training to police forces and other organisations both here in the
UK and around the world. As you might gather,  this has kept me delightfully busy over the years and it only recently
that I have had the time to get back to the music.   I always maintained an interest in music, playing as a local semi-
pro and even running my own big-band for a time.   I wrote big-band arrangements for youngsters to play and I also
wrote several original tunes for other local big-bands.

I always had a ambition to write a symphony which considering that I've never had any formal training was perhaps
just a little arrogant. But what the hell - if you don't try you don't get!

It was back in 1980 I had begun to write a program that would print music (on a dot matrix printer!) from a cassette
recording (on the old TRS80 computer) I actually got this working and then dreamed of a program that would accept
a sketch with relevant instructions and then magically produce a full printed score from it. Never completed that but
recently discovered  that other people  had done a much better job than I ever could.   I tried a number  of these and
eventually settled on Sibelius.  Suddenly I was like a kid in  a toyshop - and the first symphony was the result.  Other
pieces are on the way and I'll take the liberty of sending them to you as they become available.   I'm still pretty busy
earning a living but the sheer sense of achievement from writing music is absolutely priceless for me.

Musically, as well as jazz and swing I have a yen for the romantic classics.   I'm happier with live performances and I
suppose that's why I prefer conventional instrumentation rather than synthesizer sounds. The music I'm writing now
is  initially intended  for actual  live performance  (not that that's  ever likely  to happen)  and my main  interest is  in
trying to create that rich and ravishing sound of the Romantic age -  perhaps with occasional modern harmonies and
rhythms. The 4th movement of the symphony tries to do this.

Last Updated on 2019
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

(1319)©"Sometime Waltz for Strings". Composed and Sequenced by Jim Bates.

(1272)©"Symphony No.1 - 1st Movement". Composed and Sequenced by Jim Bates.

(1273)©"Symphony No.1 - 2nd Movement". Composed and Sequenced by Jim Bates.

(1274)©"Symphony No.1 - 3rd Movement". Composed and Sequenced by Jim Bates.

(1275)©"Symphony No.1 - 4th Movement". Composed and Sequenced by Jim Bates.

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