'Graeme first played drums at the age of 11'. At 14 he won the title of “Junior Genius” on Thames Television’s “Nationwide”, performing with a Youth Jazz Orchestra. His first professional engagement was at 17 with Miki & Griff, he then went on to work on the “Wheatley”  circuit, backing TV artistes such as Lulu, Mike Reid, and Freddie Star.His professional career has led him though many avenues, such as TV and Radio Sessions, Shows, Jingles, Recording Sessions, and Tours, with the Herb Miller Orchestra (Glen’s brother), Ray Shields Orchestra, which played and appeared in the film “Yanks”, and Guy Mitchell , Dennis Lotis.

‘Jazz is Graeme's real love of music’, and for some years could be found playing with the Ray Ward Trio  in his home town of  Southend-On-Sea, during which time  he recorded and produced two albums with the Trio, and performed at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1983 he formed the Graeme Culham  Big Band, playing the music of Buddy Rich and Count Basie, as well as original compositions.The band received rave review’s from press and public, every concert selling out. The band recorded its first album in 1986. Also during  this time, Graeme was invited to talk about his drumming and big band on BBC and Local Radio.

‘Diversity is the name of the game with Graeme’.  Jazz has not been an exception to the rule.During 1991 Graeme was engaged to play in Switzerland for a period of four weeks with Traditional Jazz Musicians,Mac White, Alan Bradley, Chez Chesterman, for the Caza bar, run by British trumpeter Bob Wallis. At the end of this stint he was asked to guest with the “Original Hallelujah Stompers” at the ‘Jazz House’  in Friberg West Germany. On return to England, Graeme was engaged by “Pete Corrigon and his band of hope” along with clarinetist Cy Laurie at the Wexford Jazz Week in Ireland.

‘Apart from working with who’s who of the Jazz world’, such as the late Eddie Thompson, Slim Gaillard, as well as Buddy Tate, Kenny Ball, Don Rendell, and Ronnie Scott, ( who was quoted as saying; that “Graeme was one of  the best jazz drummers he has worked with” ). Graeme can be found on many L.P’s with Jazz artists such as Dick Morrissey, Pete King, on Jackson Sloan’s “Old Angel Midnight”  album, arrangements by the late Jimmy Deuchar, and with Roy Williams, Maxine Daniels, on Humphrey Lyttelton’s “Calligraph Records” and also for “SNOWBOY” on the “Acid Jazz”  label, of which “Girl  Overboard”  from the 3 Faces of Snowboy E.P, went into the top six of the U.K Soul chart, as well as drumming on the Acid Jazz re-recording of the "Avengers T.V Theme" 

He released his first C.D with his quintet in 1996: "the graeme culham jazz quintet", featuring original compositions by its members. The quintet was featured on the meridian television program `The Pier` during 1999. Graeme was also featured with the touring show `Drum Crazy` and was musical director for the `Southend Jazz Orchestra`.

Graeme is currently fronting his own quintet, freelancing and performing various drum clinics around the country and running his own teaching studio at Mushroom studios, Rayleigh, Essex. He is also working on a new C.D with his quintet for 2005.