Member Since: 8/12/2006
Band Website: carltassi.com
Band Members: Carl Tassi :vocals & drums
Cengiz Yaltkaya :piano
Austin Nicholsen :bass
Endorsements:
Drum Workshop
( drums & hardware )
www.dwdrums.com
E-Pad! Enterprises, LLC
www.epadco.com
Distributors:
NorthCountry Distributors
Cadence Building, Redwood, NY 13679 U.S.A.
Tel: 315-287-2852 Fax: 315-287-2860
E-mail: [email protected]
CD Baby
5925 NE 80th Ave.
Portland, OR 97218-2891
Tel: 503-595-3000
www.cdbaby.com
Super D
17822 A Gillette
Irvine , CA 92614
Tel: 866-666-1170
www.sdcd.com
Influences: Vocalists:
Mose Allison, Karrin Allyson, Chet Baker, Tony Bennett, Bob Dorough, Kurt Elling, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Billy Holiday, Eddie Jefferson, Irene Kral, Carmen McCray, Mel Torme, Joe Williams, etc.
Instrumentalists:
Dave Brubeck, Gary Burton, Kenny Burrell, Canonball Adderley, Pablo Casals, Ron Carter, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Paul Desmond, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, John Handy III, Charlie Haden, Colmen Hawkins, Yasha Heifetz, Albert King, Ahmad Jamal, Roland Kirk, Leonid Kogan, Charles Lloyd, Herbie Mann, Les McCann, Jack McDuff, Marian McPartland, Charles Mingus, David Oistrakh, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Tony Scott, Bud Shank, Jimmy Smith, Henryk Szeryng, Cal Tjader, Stevie Ray Vaughn, etc.
Drummers:
Collin Bailey, Ginger Baker, Louie Bellson, Jimmy Cobb, Clayton Cameron, Vernell Fournier, Steve Gadd, Jerry Grannelli, John Guerrin, Jeff Hamilton, Louis Hayes, Elvin Jones, Papa Jo Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Ron Jefferson, Gene Krupa, Joe Morello, Shelly Manne, Bernard Perdie, Charlie Persip, Buddy Rich, Danny Richmond, Ed Thigpen, Tony Williams, etc.
Symphonic Percussion:
Anthony Cirone, Roland Kohloff
African Percussion:
Kwaku Daddi
Songwriters:
Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Willie Dixon, George & Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Fields, Laurenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, George Harrison, Lennon & McCartney, Lieber & Stoller, Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer, Serge Mahanovich, Cole Porter, Billy Strayhorn, Mel Torme, James Taylor, Tommy Wolf, etc.
Composers:
Johannes Brahms, J. S. Bach, Count Basie, Bela Bartok, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Hector Berlioz, John Cage, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, George & Ira Gershwin, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Kenton, Luigi Nono, Nino Rota, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Jean Sebelius, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varez, Richard Wagner, Anton Webern, etc.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter Thompson
Sounds Like: Traditonal jazz trio with vocals
Record Label: Royola Records
Type of Label: Indie