About Me
Thanks for taking the time to visit my webpage. My name is Steve Wallevand (waves of "hello"). I am in my 15th year of playing gigs and have my internship left to complete for my degree (Music for Film/TV/Games and Music Performance). I am fortunate to have learned much from my mother (who is a piano / choir / band teacher), my father (who is a vocalist and pianist), and my siblings (who are in music and news industries). I am equally fortunate to have my girlfriend and our baby daughter; as well as kind, insightful friends.***Bands I have been a member of are: WBPN (present), QUADROPHONIC, GREENHOUSE, GROOVE UNION, HIP, KILIMANJARO, 3 MINUTE HERO, and MAIN EVENT R&B and JAZZ.***Through The Willie Waldman Project I have performed with WILLIE WALDMAN, NORTON WISDOM, RAY WHITE, STEPHEN PERKINS, JOHN MOLO, TONY FRANKLIN, KIM MANNING, TERRY SAFFOLD, HERMAN GREEN, VINNIE AMICO, BRIAN JORDAN, CLINT WAGNER, and the band BANYAN. (Thanks Willie and Chris Larson!)***I have had a lesson(s) from TOM “Bones†MALONE, STEVE WEIST, PHIL WILSON, ELLIOT MASON, JIGGS WIGHAM, BOB McCHESNEY, ED NEUMEISTER, BILL REICHENBACH, Dr. JOHN TESCH (primary), Dr. KYLE MACK, RODNEY HUDSON, MIKE CHRISTIANSON, Dr. MICHAEL MISSIRAS, SIMON ROWE, HENRY GWIAZDA, and ALF CLAUSEN. (Innumerable thanks to Donald Beyer for his unyielding support over many years for trombone conventions, lesson hook-ups, etc!!!)***Bands/Artists I have performed/jammed with are: Carl Fontana, Tom Malone, Bobby Vinton, Miss Lavelle White, Steve Smith, Bob Mintzer, The Legionnaires, Levitt8, The Javier Trejo Trio, Unity, Down Lo, Deploi, Bad Mojo, Gypsyfoot, Gold Standard, Fat Dad, Fancy Bastard, The John Thomas Trio, The Mindfunk Allstars, The Krims, Carmen the Cactus, The Keller Brothers, Planet Purple, Johnny Lang, Shannon Curfman, Petcamp, Patents Pending, LivingInTentCity, Post Traumatic Funk Syndrome, Beat Down, JASS, Wallace Hartley and the Titanics, FM Jazz Arts Group, and asked to join Broadway's touring Hello Dolly. If you have time please check out some of the other tunes on the playlist or my videos.
