It started with his mother's ear.
"I'd wanted to play an instrument, but I didn't know which one I was going to pick. My mom said, 'I like saxophone.'"
And just like that, Florence, South Carolina sent another voice into the continuum.
Peter Dimery didn't just pick up the tenor—he picked up the weight of it. The lineage. The responsibility. He emerged from Furman University with technique and training, but the real education came through obsession: two albums that rewired his musical DNA.
Blue Train. Giant Steps.
John Coltrane became the map and the territory. The question and the answer. The thing he was grasping for before he knew what grasping meant.
What came out the other side? A tenor man in the old sense—big sound, soulful phrasing, the kind of tone that fills a room before the first phrase resolves. He moves through contemporary classical, soul, and jazz like they're dialects of the same mother tongue. Because they are.
A cornerstone of The Wheel Sessions—that underground jazz series in West Greenville where the real ones gather—Peter has spent years building the Upstate's sonic vocabulary alongside conspirators like Phillip Howe, Shannon Hoover, and Kevin Korschgen.
Now he's bringing that Florence-to-Furman-to-the-future energy to the Zack Page Euphemism, where his horn speaks the things we only imply.
