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Ian Latham’s music biography
I was born and grew up in North London to English and Malaysian Chinese parents. I started piano lessons aged 5 and clarinet aged 13. My school UCS promoted weekly jazz which gave me an early window into world class live jazz (Charlie Rouse, Jean Toussaint, Adelaide Hall, Jason Rebello, Bobby Shew, James Moody, etc). Here I met Barak Schmool who became an early musical mentor who introduced me to Loose Tubes, Django Bates and Ian Ballamy and world music (Samba, salsa, Ewe drumming).
Royal Academy of Music jazz summer schools. Met Steve Coleman at Nice Jazz Fest.  Studied sitar with Wajahat Khan 1992.
Music degree at York 1993-6. Ethnomusicology at UCLA 1994.
Sound and Lights engineer at Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles (George Coleman, Yusef Lateef, Benny Carter, Ahmad Jamal, Kevin Eubanks etc).
York Composition folio 1996 led to Ravi Coltrane introducing me to Elvin Jones. At this point I started working in finance so music went on the back burner. Solo piano compositions c.2000. Logic compositions 2017.
The pandemic of 2020 gave me the opportunity to reconnect with music. I started jazz piano lessons over Zoom with Greg Spero July 2020.
Joined Open Studio 2022 after seeing Peter Martin perform with Christian McBride at the North Sea Jazz Festival. Masterclasses with Geoffrey Keezer and Emmet Cohen. 
In 2024, I started a Master's degree in Jazz Piano at the Guildhall  and was appointed as a Trustee at Serious Trust. I was appointed a Director of the Vortex Jazz Club in 2025.

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