Avery Burdette was born in
Guntersville, Alabama and began playing the foot pedals of his mother’s organ at
the age of 4. After abandoning the trombone for rock keyboard in the late '60s,
he eventually moved to Boston to study music composition at the Berklee School
of Music. He has been playing acoustic piano, organ and keyboards ever since.
Back in Alabama, he formed the Burdette Quartette and gained local notoriety as
a jazz player. Avery later moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he played
honky-tonk, blues, country and rock ‘n' roll, both as a studio musician and on
the road as a sideman for many incredible headline artists.
After his second child was
born, Avery felt a need to get a day job and began working for Yamaha
Music. In 1996, he moved his family to California, continued working
for Yamaha and has also continued playing solo piano and works in many
Southern California bands as a keyboard man in both club and concert
settings. Avery is now also heeding a strong calling to sing bebop.
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