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| Jesse Peters BiographyJesse Peters was born in Vermont in 1970 and grew up around music, as his mother is a fine vocalist in classical and folk styles. This led directly to his career choice, where he focuses on the guitar. Major influences include Martin Sexton, John Hiatt and jazz in general. Jesse's current band GMP plays about seventy percent originals. He neither eschews nor is limited to covers.
Jesse continued playing and studying as he entered adulthood, eventually becoming enamored of jazz and jazz-rock. This led to five years in college studying music, graduating from The University of The Arts in Philadelphia with a bachelor's in jazz guitar and a master's in music teaching. During this time in the city he was actively writing songs and playing them at open mics, leading to a few coffeehouse gigs prior to leaving the city. He was also exposed to recording techniques while in college, a skill that has come in handy in this do-it-yourself age of music production.
Jesse's last stop before returning to the green mountains was Providence RI, where he plied his teaching chops for three years in the Providence Public Schools. He chose to abandon this career path in favor of his true love, writing and performing his own music. While in Providence he also played in Dhamma Collective, a jazz-calypso band, with Brown University student Stephon Alexander. This fine outfit frequently featured great Trinidadian steel pan player Mackie Burnett. Other members of the band were Lon Plynton on bass and Bob Fish on percussion, both world-class players.
Today Jesse blends all of these formative experiences into a musical approach that includes many different styles. He is flexible enough to play instrumental dinner music one day and jazz-rock with his trio the next. His writing style is similarly broad, with modern groove numbers interspersed with more traditional fingerpicked tunes, and a few rockers thrown in for good measure. Mixing it up like this keeps it interesting for both him and his audience.
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