Jim Fryer began his career as age 16 in the Boston area. In the more than 3 decades since, he has toured internationally; recorded as a bandleader and sideman; and played television, radio, theaters, jazz clubs, and concert halls in a variety of musical settings.

Band of Gold is one of the UK's top function and festival bands playing a mixture of mainstream and traditional jazz, lounge jazz, swing, bossa novas, blues and rock & roll. Jeremy Huggett, who formed the band in 1997, wanted a band that played mainly jazz, blues and swing, and a wide range of other music to appeal to everyone's musical tastes.