Member Since: 10/22/2006
Band Website: jacobmelchior.com
Band Members: Amazing Grace,
features Tommy James on piano and Kengo Nakamura on bass.
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Bean and the Boys & Effendi,
is with Steve Ash on piano and Neal Miner on bass.
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Dream Dancing,
is Eric Alexander: sax, Thomas Fryland: trumpet, Sam Yahel: Hammond Organ, JM: drums
Influences: I have been influenced by everybody I have ever heard, however the top 5, in terms of what comes through in my playing and cats who got me on the right track, are:
Philly Joe, Elvin, Billy Higgins, Ed Blackwell and now more than ever before and at that a little more every day: Papa Joe Jones - Hands Down
Sounds Like: That is for you to decide and for me not to worry about. I am a mixed bag of all the cats I have heard so far. I love playing behind good singers, horn players, pianists, guitarists and bass players. My signature, if I have one, is groove. Groove with the brushes, groove with the sticks, groove with the mallets, groove with the hands, just groove.
Stanley Crouch said this about me:"You passed the ultimate test, you can swing and you control the volume of the instrument"
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None