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Tom Willow

join me in the PANTHEON OF FUNKITUDE

About Me

I'm Tom Willow, real name Tom Wierzbicki , which means willow tree in Polish. I am a follower in the ways of funk. If you want to hear funk music or jazz, I will show you my huge library of such music, which I've researched and collected and put into archives AKA itunes. I'm in school now learning jazz with piano as my primary instrument. I spent many years learning keyboard music from the baroque, classical, romantic and 20th century eras. I love the bass too, electric or upright. I am a huge believer in the wisdom of Lao Tzu. (Taoism aka Daoism) In my sleep I dream about jamming with Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Les Claypool, Zakir Hussain and George Clinton all at once. I was the bass player of the Kim Basinger Band from pre-formation in 2003 to break up in 2007. and I am currently 25% of Molten Guava
Here is a nice lesson from the Hua Hu Ching, which is the "unknown" teachings of Lao Tzu and was banned in China and passed on orally.
FIVE:
Do you imagine the universe is agitated?
Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars.
This practice should answer the question.
The superior person settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky.
By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it.
Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.
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Member Since: 1/3/2008
Band Website: none - youtube.com/watch?v=8Un6pmJK_ZE
Band Members: Tom Willow- piano/keyboard, bass, guitar, vocals, ukulele, mandolin, didgeridoo, tabla, flute
Influences: Sun Ra
Thelonious Monk
McCoy Tyner
John Coltrane
Pharoah Sanders
Eric Dolphy
Ornette Coleman
Charles Mingus
Ron Carter
Paul Chambers
Charlie Rouse
Art Tatum
Michael Brecker
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Joshua Redman
The Bad Plus
Sergei Prokofiev
Krzysztof Penderecki
Olivier Messiaen
Gyorgy Ligeti
Bela Bartok
James Brown/the J.B.'s
The Meters
The Budos Band
The Poets of Rhythm
Quantic Soul Orchestra
The Daktaris
The Heliocentrics
Dr. John
Tower of Power
Sly & the Family Stone
Bootsy Collins
Parliament
Fela Kuti
Antibalas
Burning Spear
Desmond Dekkar
Les Claypool
Claude Debussy
Soulive
Lettuce
Stanton Moore
Sam Kininger
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Victor Wooten
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Ustad Zakir Hussain
Pt. Shivkumar Sharma
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Pt. Ravi Shankar
Ustad Vilayat Khan
Ustad Rais Khan
Herbie Hancock
Freddie Hubbard
Wayne Shorter
James Carter
Wu-Tang Clan
De La Soul
The Roots
The Pharcyde
Redman
Busta Rhymes
Madlib
Oh No
Jimmy McGriff
Jimmy Smith
Oscar Peterson
Sonny Clark
Wynton Kelly
Chick Corea
Stanley Clarke
Bill Evans
Bobby Timmons
Praxis
The Beatles
Lao Tzu
Fractals
The universe outside of Earth

Sounds Like: hopefully nothing
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None