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Bruce Nazarian

Smooth Jazz with a twist of Motown Funk!

About Me


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/31/2006
Band Website: dagnome.net
Band Members: I have been lucky:

some brilliant FNFs:
Rocco Ventrella
Renato Falaschi

also some amazing FOF's:
"The Automatix":
Jerry Q "Le Foot" Jones
Luis Resto (hot keys!)
Jim "Noodles" Noel
Nolan Mendenhall
Kenny Meriedith
Ray Goodman
Randy "Randog" Jacobs
Shaun Murphy

Main Bro' Mark Nilan
Martin Royer
Eddie Jobson
Hans Tobeason
Peter "Ski" Schwartz
Sean Callery
David "Nick" Nichtern - "Midnight at The Oasis, Nick"
Robert Troy - brother in arms and razor blades
Pat Schneider - tech genius BEYOND control
Don Was (Not Was)
Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers

and a veritable cast of freakin' thousands...

and let's not forget our very special artists:
Millie Scott
Jill "Larrice" Phillps
Midway (go, Donnie Ray!)
The "Detroit Divas" - Carol Hall, Kathy Kosins
Sir Harry
Sweet Pea Atkinson
Duane Bradley

Don Davis
Steve "WISK" Klein
Mike Iacopelli
Jim Vitti
Greg Ward
Ken Sands
Jim Bruzzese
Richard Becker

and there's also:

Charlie Gross
Gary Anderson
Mike Theodore
Dennis Coffey
Armen Boladian

and SO many more...
Influences: Motown, Rock, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Funk, Blues, Jazz, the Funk Brothers, and the entire Detroit music scene in general -
Sounds Like: Great Music - what else?
Record Label: Smooth Sounds Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Rocco is 21 on Smooth Indie Chart

Rocco's CD has been progressing nicely at radio, thanks to our ace radio promoter Adam. We're seeing good spins, lots of nice adds, and chart action - this week up from 25 to 21!If you haven't yet hea...
Posted by Bruce Nazarian on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:19:00 PST

Wow - we're number one on SKY.FM

What a thrill to have produced THREE of the Top 25 Smooth Jazz tracks of 2006, including the NUMBER ONE Smooth Jazz track of 2006 as named by Jimi King on SKY.FM Smooth Jazz Channel!The CD will be ou...
Posted by Bruce Nazarian on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:26:00 PST