Jimmy Peggie is a musician and composer based in Phoenix Arizona. He plays regularly in a number of live situations - with the group Subterranean Jazz, with guitarist Jeff Lauffer, and with sax player Mike Livingston. In all these situations the focus is on adventurous music that is accessible to the listener.

He has been involved with three recordings as a co-leader - Subterranean (1999), Subway Sonnets (2001), and Celtic Lines (2005). In all of these recordings he was involved as the bassist as well as co-producer, composer, and arranger of the music. He has recorded with other musicians in the role of bassist.

Jimmy is dedicated to creating and developing new music through avenues that are slightly removed from the mainstream.

LATEST NEWS

Jimmy is currently involved in a number of live and recorded projects. He is recording a new CD with his band Subterranean Jazz.

Jimmy plays live around the Phoenix area with Subterranean Jazz. Check out the dates on the Subterranean Jazz site. He is also doing a series of Sunday morning gigs under the name Freetribes with Mike Livingston the sax player and drummer Richard Bogan. This features meditative, avant garde and mostly free-form improvised music. The current location is Three Roots on Mill in Tempe and the time is from 12 noon - 2pm. He also has played with Chris Zahnleiter.

Jimmy also records with a variety of musicians including folk and Celtic acts. Recent recordings include Cds from Caji, The Clare Voyants, Brid Dower, and Jim Pipkin,

Recently Jimmy completed a new recording project for Deb Myking which features folk, bluegrass and gospel music called 'The Journey to May.' It is being produced by Welshman, John Good. Other recent projects include a track for the upcoming Adam Panic CD called 'Wonderful" recorded by Bob Hoag at Flying Blanket Recording.

Jimmy is also involved in developing ambient and sound art recording projects. Find his weekly contribution on the 52 Weeks Project site.