IF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR MUSIC ON TV AND IN FILMS...please send MP3's to
[email protected] and please include all contact info and web info. YOU MUST OWN THE SONGS, LYRICS, AND ALL SAMPLES (IF ANY) USED.I grew up in a household where dad sang and played every instrument but the harp, my uncle played guitar, piano and sang, and my brother is a guitarist/singer/music therapist, so there were plenty of musical instruments around the house in New York," says producer, engineer and writer, Jeff Gross. "I started out playing piano but got the itch to play drums in high school."
Jeff discovered electronic music after moving to California to attend the Dick Grove School of Music. While working on a degree in audio engineering, he started playing percussion with the Los Angeles based Naked to the World. From there he ended up doing sessions and sharing the stage with artists that included Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Carly Simon, Dwight Yoakam, Lowen and Navarro, Al Stewart and Peter White, and Craig Chaquico.During this busy and exciting time as well, Jeff began working on field production, recording for television and film projects in Los Angeles. He started building an impressive resume by writing music for Baywatch, MTV's Road Rules and Real World programs, FOX, CNN and has worked as a percussionist for many different artists including the likes of Gary Wright (of "Dreamweaver" fame) and MTV's on-air talent and musical director Jon Ernst (The X Show, Singled Out, VH1's Behind the Music, Beat the Geeks).Jeff co-produced Jamestowne, a local L.A. band in the vein of the Gin Blossoms meets the Goo Goo Dolls. Other projects include the third Spanish Guitar recording from Yussi (Ricky Martin's guitarist), and the film "Pool Hall Junkies," that stars Chazz Palmintieri, Christopher Walken, and Rod Steiger.Recently, Jeff co-produced "My Best Friend," the latest release from L.A. based singer/songwriter Roger Len Smith, a.k.a. RAJ. "My Best Friend" also features Rami Jaffee and Ben Peeler (Wallflowers), Victor Bisetti (Los Lobos), and former Grant Lee Buffalo drummer, Joey Peters, among others.Jeff also produced and engineered two "live" records for Mickey Champion, a 78 year-old blues singer who has worked with with Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Nat King Cole. These are her first recordings since the 1960's.Other credits include work with: Phil Bardwell (Beach Boys), EG Daily ("The Rug Rats", the voice of Babe the Pig), Doug Ingo (Iron Butterfly), Carl Varhiem (Supertramp's 1st call guitarist in L.A.) Mike Neely (Frank Zappa), Matty Spindel (Grammy winning engineer for Santana's "Supernatural"), Don Huffington (Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams), Philip Bynoe (Steve Vai), Kevin Ricard (Stevie Wonder), Jean Micheal (Toto), Ardeshir Farah (Strunz and Farah), Garrison Star , Johnny Spine Shank (Spine Shank).
