Steve Weingart & Friends

Steve Weingart appears on Steve Lukather’s latest release "Ever Changing Times".
STEVE WEINGART & FRIENDS
Steve Weingart (Keyboards)
Eric Valentine (Drums)
Tom Brechtlein (Drums)
Simon Phillips (Drums)
Ronnie Guitterez (Percussion)
Jimmy Earl (Bass)
Hussain Jiffry (Bass)
Carlitos Del Puerto (Bass)
Mike Miller (Guitar)
Fred Clark (Guitar)
Eric Marienthal (Sax)
Gary Meek (Sax)
and many more!
Steve Weingart also performs frequently with Marco Mendoza (Bass), Joey Heredia (Drums) and tours internationally with artists including Warren Hill (Sax, Vocals), Virgil Donati (Drums) and Steve Lukather (Guitar, Vocals).
Steve Weingart has released two solo CD’s, "Life Times Vol.1" and "Dark Blue Dream".
Steve Weingart, Tom Brechtlein, Mike Miller & Brian Masek - Live at Sioux Falls Jazz Festival 2007
Steve Weingart with Dave Weckl Band
Steve Weingart, Steve Lukather, Joey Heredia, Oskar Cartaya - El Grupo, live in Germany, 2005.
Steve Weingart Band - Live at La Ve Lee, Studio City, CA - September 2007
Nu Alliance - Live at La Ve Lee, Studio City, CA - February 2007
Steve Weingart:
I started playing piano at a very young age, and took classical piano lessons until I graduated high school. I still really enjoy playing and studying classical music. (Ravel, Scriabin, Debussy, and Copland to mention a few). During my young years I heard a lot of great pop, rock, progressive, jazz and jazz fusion music. As a keyboardist, I gravitated toward artists like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, and Steve Wonder. Besides being amazing composers and improvisors, they were making cool sounds exploring and pioneering how synthesizers are used today. I began my professional music career in Cincinnati, Ohio. I went there to attend the Cincinatti Conservatory, but began playing so much I couldn’t keep the ’double life’ of a student and gigging musician. I gave up school and built up a career working in many different musical situations until I moved to Los Angeles in 1994. There I began meeting musicians and getting into the music scene, and taught piano at the Musicians Insitute. Hal Leonard published my instructional book. One of my key experiences was with the Marco Mendoza Trio. (Marco-bass & vocals, Joey Heredia-drums) I met a lot of musicians who came to see the trio. As a result, I went on to work with many other bands, recording and touring internationally with, amongst others, the "Dave Weckl Band, and Steve Lukather’s "El Grupo", and Virgil Donati. In the midst of all of this work, I began to feel the desire to do my own thing, so in the early part of 2003 I released my first solo CD called "Life Times Vol. 1". I continued to write music for, and tour with other bands. I also worked toward my next solo endeavor, "Dark Blue Dream", which I released in October 2006.
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Compiled and edited by Will Minting, London, December 2006.
Updated March 2008. www.myspace.com/willminting