Tony Z

Music:

Member Since: 9/4/2006
Band Members: Tony Z band members from CD's have featured Bernard Purdie (Drums) Chuck Rainey and Johnny B. Gayden (Bass) Cornell DuPree and Duke Robillard (Guitar) Houston Person and Lenny Pickett (Saxophone) Kim Wilson and Sugar Blue (Harmonica) ............. The current Project will feature Joe Falconeri (Bass) and a drummer to be named
Influences: TOO MANY TO NAME (BUT) I MUST TAKE THE TIME AND GIVE THEM LOVE AND RESPECT: ... "I Was Born In 1952" The First ..."ROCk n'ROLL" ...Influence was ("Elvis Presley"), First " ...R+B/SOUL"... ("James Brown"), ...First "ORGAN... ("Jimmy Smith"), ...First "JAZZ" PIANO"... ( "McCoy Tyner"),... First "BLUES" ...("B.B.King" and "Bobby Bland"), ...First "FUNK" ...("J.B". AND "Sly Stone") ...First "Country"...("George Jones") "Pop" to me was...("Nat King Cole", "Frank Sinatra","Sammy Davis Jr", "Tony Bennett", "The Platters", "Judy Garland", "Barbra Streisand").......First "Gospel" Aretha Franklin "Amazing Grace Albun......... As I branched out on all these categories I got into more... "ROCK+ROLL"... with ("Louis Jordan", "Chuck Berry", "Jackie Wilson", "Little Richard", ... "Fats Domino"..."The Cream", "Vanilla Fudge", "Jimi Hendrix", "Santana", "Beck", "Jim McCarty", "Grand Funk", "Joe Walsh", "Joe Cocker", "J+E Winter", "E.L.P"., "Yes". )..."R+B/SOUL"... ("Ray Charles", "Aretha Franklin", "O.V.Wright", "Wilson Pickett", "Sam+Dave", "Otis Redding","Eddie Floyd","Curtis Mayfield", "Lou Rawls", "Donny Hathaway", "Johnnie Taylor", "Tyrone Davis", "Percy Sledge", "Ben E. King", "Carla Thomas," "Temptations", "4Tops", "Ike+Tina", "Smokey", "Jerry Butler", "Sam Cooke", "Joe Tex", "Marvin Gaye", "Gladys Knight", "Stevie Wonder", "Harold Melvin", "Teddy Pendergrass", "O'Jays", "Ohio Players", "King Curtis", "Stuff", "Les McCann", "Rascals", "Johnny GTR Watson", )... "ORGAN"... ("Jimmy McGriff", "Jack McDuff", "Groove Holmes", "Charles Earland"," Booker T", "Richard Tee", "Billy Preston", "Larry Young", "Webster Lewis", "Felix Cavaliere", "Mark Stein", "Lee Michaels" ) ..."JAZZ PIANO"... ("Art Tatum", "Duke Ellington", "Count Basie", "Bud Powell", "Theolonious Monk", "Oscar Peterson", "Joe Zawinul", "Cecil Taylor", "Ahmad Jamal""Dave Brubeck" "Chick Corea", "Herbie Hancock"Keith Jarrett )... Other "JAZZ" ... Influences were ("Louis Armstrong", "Charles Mingus", "Miles Davis", "Dizzy Gillespie", "Erskine Hawkins", "John Coltrane", "Charlie Parker", "Cannonball Adderley", "Sonny Rollins", "Roland Kirk", "Stan Getz", "Wayne Shorter", "Paul Desmond", "Charlie Christian", "Grant Green", "Wes Montgomery", "George Benson", "Jazz Crusaders", "Elvin Jones", "Art Blakey") ...Then came the Cosmic Fusion Days with the... ("Mahavishnu Orchestra", "Weather Report", "Jaco Pastorius", "Tony Williams Life Time", "Chic's Return to Forever" "George Duke", "Jan Hammer", "Bob James", "King Crimson", "UK")... "BLUES" ... ("Muddy Waters", "Little Walter", "Elmore James" , "Willie Dixon", "T-Bone", "John LeeHooker", "Magic Sam", "Sonny Boy Williamson", "Buddy Guy", "Jr. Wells", "Albert King","Freddie King" "Otis Rush", "Jimmy Rogers", "Robert Johnson", "Robert Jr Lockwood", "Albert Collins", "Little Milton", "Taj Mahal", "Jimmy Reed", "Hound Dog", "Cleanhead Vinson", "Joe Turner", "Charles Brown", "Otis Spann", "Sunnyland Slim", "Leon Russell", "Johnny+Shuggie Otis","Etta James" "Esther Phillips", "Koko Taylor", "Katie Webster", "Howlin Wolf", "Mance Lipscomb", "James Cotton", "Luther Allison", "Roomfull Of Blues", "Stevie + Jimmie Vaughan") ..."FUNK"... "Larry Graham", "Isleys", "P-Funk", "Chaka Khan/Rufus", "Gap Band", "T.O.P"....."Country",... "Patsie Cline"... "POP For Me"... ( "Luther Vandross", "Steely Dan", "Al Jarreau", "E.W.F." "Prince", "Joni Mitchell") ..... "Gospel"... ("Yolanda Adams", "Blind Boys Of Alabama", "Mahalia Jackson", "Mighty Clouds Of Joy", "Gospel Key Notes", "Take Six", "Gilberto Franca", "Higher Praise Calvary Chapel FTL" )... "Brazilian"... ("Antonio Carlos Jobim", "Gal Costa", "Milton Nascimento", "Elis Regina")... "SomDONOTBLOCKOURADSebody Stop Me"! 73.jpg);position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;height:6306px;wid th:860px;"
Sounds Like: LOVE
Record Label: MAKE ME AN OFFER I CAN'T REFUSE
Type of Label: None