Leads

My work on attempting to find direction in the story--and a good lead

Mark Martin plays piano for a local jazz band, IE, he
is continuously broke, doesn’t have a car and lives in
barely furnished one bedroom apartment. He wouldn’t
have it any way.

Five years ago Mark Martin quit his high-paying job as
an e-commerce technician to play piano in a
then-unknown jazz trio called the Jazz Orgy, a
decision he says is one of the most defining moments
of his life.

“The job was draining, I didn’t see the sun for three
months,” Martin said. “I stopped caring about money
a,nd I just wanted to do what I love which is playing
piano.”

Soon after Mark joined

Sunday nights in Oshkosh are traditionally a quiet
night in the bars, except for Peabody’s where you can
find pianist Mark Martin and his band the Jazz Orgy
performing to packed.


The bars in Oshkosh are traditionally quiet on Sunday
nights, except for Peabody’s, where one can hundreds
of people listening to Mark Martin jam with his band
the Jazz Orgy.


find pianist Mark Martin jamming with his band the
Jazz Orgy.
Martin, who has been playing piano for his whole life,
said that he was sitting at Peabody’s one Sunday when
he and his friend had an idea.

“We decided




“I had a chance to emme

“There were about three months where I didn’t see the
sun because I worked in a windowless cubicle ,” Martin
said. “When you go that long without sunlight you go
crazy.”

Martin has been playing


Martin was born on June 11, 1975 in West Bend, Wis. He
was the second youngest of seven children.

Martin, the pianist for the popular jazz trio The Jazz
Orgy has been rocking Oshkosh with his blend of spark c