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DAN LIPTON

About Me



DAN LIPTON is a musical chameleon whose dynamic career straddles the uptown/downtown divide. A songwriter/composer, arranger/orchestrator, ace pianist and lover of backslashes, Lipton's work bridges pop music, film scoring and theater.

He appears on the latest album from feminist hip-hop trio Northern State (Ipecac Recordings)... he has backed singer/songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche all over NYC and on XM Radio... his playing and songwriting are featured on the new album from theater singer Lauren Kennedy (PS Classics)... he surfaces regularly in downtown clubs with both Brazilian groove chanteuse Eliane and folk/soul songwriter Dina Dean ... he spent two years touring with Brooklyn indie rocker Matthew Pop .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 22/11/2005
Band Website: www.danlipton.com
Band Members: DL
Influences: Jon Brion ... Quincy Jones ... Butterfly Boucher ... World Party ... Aaron Copland ... Spiritualized ... Matthew Sweet ... Athlete ... Bjork ... David Campbell ... Jellyfish ... Bill Evans ... The Cardigans ... Self ... Ken Andrews ... Gomez ... Beastie Boys ... George Gershwin ... Elliott Smith ... Arling & Cameron ... The Strokes ... Burt Bacharach ... Maurice Ravel ... Fiona Apple ... Super Furry Animals ... Money Mark ... Air ... Leonard Bernstein ... Sting ... Rufus Wainwright ... eels ... Carter Burwell ... Herbie Hancock ... Spoon ... Jason Falkner ... Kenna ... David Byrne ... Beck ... Nellie McKay ... Danger Mouse ... Elvis Costello ... Rick Rubin ... John ... Paul ... George ... Ringo ... and Sean .
Sounds Like: Tea
Record Label: Who needs a label?

My Blog

This ain’t no blog!

I hadn't checked in here for so long, I forgot what I had on the page. I just had to update my age in my profile blurb. That'll humble ya. And if I'm updating that, I might as well post a new blog ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:37:00 GMT

LISTEN HEAR to June gig @ Ars Nova

Back in June, I had a big throwdown concert at ye olde Ars Nova Theater in NYC. It was raining, and you weren't there. Luckily, the entire concert is now online for your listening pleasure:LISTEN HE...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:27:00 GMT

Lithgow links

I played on John Lithgow's latest album for kids, THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET, featuring Madeliene Peyroux and Maude Maggart. It's nominated for a Grammy (Best Children's Album). A few fun video li...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:47:00 GMT

How you get to Carnegie Hall

On Saturday night, I performed with Audra McDonald at Carnegie Hall. Check out my Carnegie experience here, summed up in 6 quick pix:http://danlipton.com/carnegiehall.html
Posted by on Tue, 02 May 2006 11:35:00 GMT

Click VIDEOS for my reel... for real

Since I've scored a bunch of short films it would be a waste of MySpace to not use the VIDEOS feature. I uploaded 4 shorts for your viewing enjoyment:Cheap Camera- music video for a song from my albu...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:34:00 GMT

MY DAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE

or MR. LIPTON GOES TO WASHINGTONNo matter who the President is, if you get to perform for a President at the White House, it's an honor. On February 6, I went to D.C. to accompany Audra McDonald at a...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:13:00 GMT

LISTEN HEAR

I made a new page on my Two Straws Music site called Listen Hear. It will be where you can hear what you missed, for free. For example, if you wanted to come to Mo Pitkin's last night, but had a d...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:11:00 GMT

R. Kelly's leftovers

I came home with some turkey, a little cucumber salad, good apple pie and a couple of chocolate brownies. Not too shabby. Got a ride back to the city with Tony and Becca, who had never heard R. Kell...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:03:00 GMT

Entering MySpace

I just spent way too long making this little page fun n' detailed. Must get some sleep...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:07:00 GMT