![]() Geils began playing jazz trumpet but eventually switched to blues guitar. They were in a relationship when she was a sophomore and junior in high school. ![]() He dated Meryl Streep, who had moved to Bernardsville in 1962. When he was drawn to folk musicians in Boston, he left Northeastern for Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he studied mechanical engineering. In 1964, he began attending Northeastern University and was a trumpeter in the marching band. He learned to play Miles Davis music on the trumpet and drums, and he listened to blues singers Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters on the radio. įrom an early age, he heard his father's albums by Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, and was escorted by his father to a Louis Armstrong concert. His father was an engineer at Bell Labs and a jazz fan. Before he graduated in 1964 he was a member of the math club, the physics club, student council, car club, band club and the marching band. He attended Bernards High School in nearby Bernardsville. In 1959, his family moved to Old Farm Lane in Bedminster. was born on February 20, 1946, in New York City, and grew up in Morris Plains, New Jersey. He continued to appear in reunion tours with the rest of his band sporadically during the 2000s and 2010s. After the band broke up in 1985, Geils left regular performing to take up restoration and racing of automobiles, with occasional forays into music production. After dropping the word "Blues" from their name, the band released their first album in 1970, performing soul and rhythm and blues-influenced rock music for most of the 1970s before turning to pop music in the 1980s. Geils Blues Band while still a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After moving to Massachusetts for his college education, he formed the J. Growing up in New York City, Geils became interested in jazz and blues. Geils or Jay Geils, was an American guitarist. ( / ɡ aɪ l z/) (Febru– April 11, 2017), known professionally as J.
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