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Edward Harris Roth

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About Me

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Edward Harris Roth’s soulful keyboard playing has made him the top choice of artists, producers and musicians worldwide. Roth’s instinctual feel has allowed him to amass credits in all sorts of genres of music. His specialty is organic instruments, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, acoustic piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, and old analog synths. He has toured with Grammy winners: Coolio, R&B group The Brothers Johnson, and R&B vocalist Mya. Roth has also toured with Grammy nominees Sophie B. Hawkins, Latin pop star Marisela, and reggae vocalist Sistah Carol. He has also performed with dance divas Kristine W. (nine 1 Billboard dance hits) and Thelma Houston, rock vocalist Glenn Hughes, guitar legend Ronnie Montrose, R&B/pop vocalist Cece Penniston and pop vocalist Sheena Easton.Ed Roth has recorded with numerous artists, including Coolio, Kristine W., Sophie B. Hawkins, Angie Stone, Sebastian Bach, Rob Halford, Jerry Cantrell, Glenn Hughes, Ronnie Montrose, Will Smith, Jao Sebastion and Marisela. As a long time session player, Roth has numerous soundtrack and commercial credits including Touchstone Pictures, BET, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, Hanna Barbara, Disney, the Video game Guitar Hero, The History Channel, Honda, Tropicana, Kenwood, Roland Corp. and JBL.

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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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Record Label: unsigned
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