Member Since: 11/20/2006
Band Members: If you need the shameless namedrop,please skip to the bio paragraph.Welcome to my world. As a sideman, I’ve been fortunate enough to make a good living playing music, and am now able to enjoy the gift of playing the music I want to play. I am lucky to be backing some truly gifted and special artists, most of whom I have been with for many years. Some great recordings I have done as a band member I am proud of will be released this year.
Influences: Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meat Bats , this started as a just make some good music, nothing else, and it’s taken on it’s own life. We have a nice Japan tour in April, and the record is slamming, check out the youtube links. We cut the record live with a few overdubs in four days, and it has that great spirit that happens when people play together.CTA’s Full Circle, is already out, a great update on some of the band Chicago’s tunes, with original Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine, and an all-star line-up- CTAtheband.com,great band,great music.Kristine W’s Straight Up With a Twist is due out later this year, I arranged and flipped a bunch of her hits and a few covers including Stairway to Heaven done acoustic R+B/Jazz style, we cut the basics live in 2 days- acoustic piano, upright bass and drums! I am also on her new 1 Billboard hit The Boss.Glenn Hughes has a new record to be released this year, warm, organic and soulful, He has the huevos to record the music in his heart, and I am happy to add some rhodes and clavinet to it.I am really excited about finishing a solo record, all that is left is mixing. The general vibe is funky jazz, just a lot of melodies and always a groove and plenty of sex. I have had so much help and love from my friends on this, great and renowned musicians themselves, they include: Danny Seraphine, Steve Stephens, Rock Dedrick, Jimmy Roberts, Chris Mostert, Mitch Manker, Joe Calderon, Aaron McLain,Rick Musallum, Daniel Pearson, Syd Alston, AdrianD’Aguilar, Phil Chen,Cassio Duarte, Marcel Adjibe.Halfway completed is a straight ahead jazz record with some nice flips of pop tunes- me-acoustic piano, Joe Calderon- nylon string guitar,Jimmy Paxson- drums, and Carlitos Puerto-upright bass. Nice phrasing, spaces, and some unique re-harms.Last, I am diving into a solo acoustic piano record, can’t really put it into a category box- some jazz, some classical, maybe I was influenced by the Brasilian music I heard growing up. Real simple melodies, just trying to play from my heart...
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