Music:
Member Since: 10/29/2006
Band Website: liquidlifemusic.com
Band Members: Jim Warshauer
Saxophones/contra alto clarinet
Shortly after getting his first saxophone in 1969, Jim saw Roland Kirk live jamming with the Mothers of Invention. This majestic confluence set in motion the chain of events that eventually led to Liquid Life. A long-time Bay Area resident, Jim has toiled in obscurity in a variety of musical settings from accordian trios to avant-garde and Balinese gamelan to blues.
Gregory White
Oud
Gregory White, a lifelong musician, began playing oud the same year he started a doctoral program in Near Eastern Studies at Harvard. He has performed with the Harvard Middle East Music Ensemble, of which he was also a comanager, and has studied oud performance and Arabic music theory with Bassam Saba.
Sven Larson
Acoustic bass
Sven Larson has played with a variety of top rock, blues, and roots bands in the New England area. He is a full-time member of blues legend Toni Lynn Washington’s band as well as a member of the rock group The Gulf. He is co-leader of the creative music group Bangalore. Sven has also studied North Indian classical music practice and is a student of bass virtuoso Steve Neil.
Grant Smith
Percussion
Grant Smith studied drumset with Alan Dawson, Arabic drums with Jamey Haddad, tabla with Kazi Jalal, Afro-Cuban percussion with Enrique Pla, and Handance with Glen Velez. He brings all these influences to Liquid Life, pouring a tall drink of water with an Arabic coffee kicker.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None
