Fraser MacPherson discusses Vancouver

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Fraser MacPherson discusses how he bacame a jazz musician

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Fraser MacPherson discusses touring and playing

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Q: “[Vancouver] is a cosmopolitan centre and one can make a living being a musician, much as you can in New York or Toronto or Montreal and in fact, you’ve been doing it for years. But it’s a little different now than it used to be, right?”

A: “Oh, it's a lot different. For me and the musicians like me, there is virtually no studio work. There is a little, but compared to what they used to be in the '50s and especially in the '60s, and by studio work, I mean radio and television and there isn't even that much in a jingle field. I don't do very much of it, which doesn't mean that there isn't any, but I don't hear all that much than what's going on in comparison to the past. Radio and television is very little, very little.”