Member Since: 20/10/2006
Band Members: Have had the pleasure of playing and/or recording with Adam Smith, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq, Simone Weisenfels, Thollem McDonas, Tom Abbs, Jim Ryan, DJ Scheme, Ryan Jewell, Justin Campbell, Ben Bennett, The Eastern Seaboard.....and all the guys in OUT-POST.
Influences: KEYS: McCoy Tyner, Thelonious Monk, Andrew Hill, Ahmad Jamal, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispell, James Hurt, Geri Allen, Billy Childs, Craig Taborn, Stephen Scott, Kevin Hays, Marc Cary, Julian Joseph, James Williams, Adam Holzman, Dr. Patrick Gleason, Jimmy Smith, Big John Patton, Larry Young. COMPOSERS: Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, James Hurt, Erik Satie, Beethoven, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Profokiev, Messiaen,Booker Little OTHER MUSICIANS: Trane, Sonny, Dolphy, ALICE (R.I.P.). Archie Shepp, Jackie Mac, Pharaoh, Andrew Lamb, Frank Wright, Miles, Jimmy Lyons, Ornette, Hasan Razzaq, Roy Haynes, Jack D, Andrew Cyrille, Freddie Waits!, Sunny Murray, Avyreaal Ra, Nicole Mitchell, The Eastern Seaboard for KEEPIN' IT REAL, Toumani Diabate, Buster Williams, Faruq Bey, Tatsuya Nakatani, Kenny Garrett, Wallace and Antoine Roney, Eddie Henderson (SUNBURST!), Ari Hoenig, Tony Williams, Russell Malone, Mark Whitfield, Elizabeth Kontomanou, Airto Moreira, and too many more to mention.
Sounds Like: I became a straight-ahead jazz snob in the early years of college, then I had an epiphany about free jazz hearing it LIVE for the first time. More recently I have an obsessive interest in vamp-driven/bass line driven rhythms and so have gotten a lot more hip to dub, metal, funk, and hip-hop....listen and just tell me what you think it sounds like.
Record Label: OUTPOSTINGS
Type of Label: Indie