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Will Rast and Friends

face melter/jet setter..........

About Me

I am Jazz pianist turned hip hop, R&B, Drum and Bass, Boogaloo Funk, Avante Garde, country, blues and World Music gun for hire. I travel the world in search of the consumate musical experience and along the way meet tons of interesting people and hear great players in all genres. You can find me backing such artists as W. Ellington Felton, Mya (yes Mya), RAMP (Roy Ayers Musical Productions), Raheem DeVaughn, Alfonso Velez, Tosin Aribisala (drummer for Femi Kuti) and with the various permutations of my own band, Cubicle, Will Rast & Friends and the trio. Music feeds my passion for life. Also I am engaged to be married to the most wonderful girl I've ever met. Life is good.

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Member Since: 10/27/2005
Band Website: willrast.com
Band Members: W. Ellington Felton, Mya Harrison, Matt Rippetoe, Marc Blackwood, Marty Morrison, Russell Carter, Tim Steele, Gavin Fallow Hamilton Hayes, Eli Staples, Meshell Ndegocello, Braylon Lacy, Gino Igleheart, Charles Ostle, Joe Brotherton, Rob Coltun, Clyde Adams, etc..
Influences: Keith Jarret, Bill Evans, Brad Mehldau, Chick Corea, Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Bob James, Phineas Newborn, Oscar Peterson, Paul Bley, John Medesky, Jimmy Smith, Larry Young, Lonnie Liston Smith, Art Neville, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny, Grant Green, Soulive, The Greyboy Allstars, James Brown, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Phish.
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