Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions

About Me

The music you are hearing was written, arranged and produced by Joe Gande and mastered by the legendary Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, NYC.
Joe is currently seeking distribution and liscensing opportunities...
With soulful, heartfelt vocals, walls of guitars, funky grooves, horns and beautiful string melodies, the music of singer/songwriter/guitarist Joe Gande crosses all barriers.
"Music is supposed to make you feel..."
Joe's music provides listeners with dynamics, heartfelt emotions and raw intensity. His songs are filled with soaring melodies, catchy hooks, addictive, sing along choruses, introspective, self-searching moments and pure driving rock & roll.
"An Emotional Journey..."
Emotions will undoubtedly arise upon listening to the music of Joe Gande. Joe draws on a variety of personal life experiences, painting a thought-provoking, abstract landscape that all can undeniably relate to. Songs about life, loss, ups, downs, love lost and found and the human condition. Songs about learning, searching, questioning, understanding, healing, finding...
Stop, Look, and Listen.
Joe has the uncanny ability to reach people and make them feel - a voice charisma and presence that immediately draw in a crowd and makes any Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions live performance an exciting, memorable no holds-barred site to see-passion and pure guts!
"A Natural"
Singing, writing, arranging, producing-all without ever taking a formal musical lesson in his life. A prolific songwriter and self-taught guitarist with an ear for melody since a young age, the music just comes into his head. From arranging horn charts, drum fills and grooves, scoring beautiful lush string sections and vocal harmonies, to bangin'out some funky piano...
...a sound that can only be described as "New York"
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Member Since: 10/20/2004
Band Website: joegande.com
Band Members: Joe Gande: Singer/songwriter/guitarist/piano/keys/producer/arranger
All lead vocals, vocal harmonies, backup vocals, guitars, piano, keys, conga -on all studio tracks
The Godsend Sessions:
Craig Shrawder: Keys - Live & Studio tracks
Kevin Bregande: Drums- Live and all studio tracks
(Kevin on Myspace)
Andrew Frawley: Drums - Live
(Andrew Frawley Website)
Neal Ostberg: Bass - Live and all studio tracks
John Miles: Bass - Live
The Mountain Stab Horns:
Dig Horns? Joe has had the privilege and honor of performing with some of the finest, most talented horn players in NYC and the world... Some of the best have joined Joe live on stage!
Tim Ouimette: Trumpet (The Four Tops, The Temptations, Ray Charles, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Keith Richards, Cab Calloway, Ben E. King, Dizzy Gillespie...)
(Tim Ouimette Website)
Nate Mayland: Trombone (The Four Tops,Temptations, Southside Johnny, Frankie Valli, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, The Gene Krupa Orchestra...)
(Nate on Myspace)
Maximilian Schweiger: Saxophone (Ray Barretto, Israel Cachao, Mario Bauza, Wynton Marsalis, Arturo O’Farrill, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons, The Funkbrothers, Paquito DRivera, the Duke Ellington Orchestra...)
Max on Myspace
Danny Wilensky: Saxophone (Santana, Lauren Hill, Steve Winwood, David Bowie...)
John Allred: Trombone (The Four Tops, The Temptations, WoodyHerman, Toshiko Akiyoshi...)
Jim O’Conner: Trumpet (The Four Tops, They Might Be Giants...)
Rick Kriska: Bari Sax (The Four Tops, The Temptations, Cab Calloway, Ben E. King, Artie Shaw...)
Kiku Collins: Trumpet-Live/studio track-"Lost her Head"
(Psych The Clown, NYC Blues Devils, Beyonce, Michael Bolton...
Kiku on Myspace Kikucollins.com
Ben Griffin: Trombone
Rich Nichols: Trumpet
Shlomi Cohen: Saxophone
Shlomicohen.com

Influences: Aerosmith!!,Steve Tyler and Joe Perry, Cheap Trick!!, The Beatles, Hendrix, Bad Company(Paul Rodgers),Led Zep, ELO, Queen, Cream, The Who, Deep Purple, Leslie West-Mountain, Robin Trower, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant(southern rock),The '70s, Hard Rock , Metal, Glam, '60's and '70's Soul, R&B, Motown, AM Radio, Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Earth,Wind and Fire!, Tower of Power, War, Early Chicago, Toto, Prince... My Father...Life!
I also dig Jeff Buckley, The Black Crowes, Foo Fighters, Chris Cornell, Audioslave, Soundgarden, The Cult, Lenny Kravitz, STP, Flamenco guitar, Classical-Love strings..., Antonio Carlos Jobim, Andres Segovia, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin...all kindsa shit... If I get a chill and my hairs stand up I'll probably dig it... Grew up listening to real Jazz/bebop & big band(not that smooth sounding fusion musac crap...)
My father Joe Gande-1929-1998-jazz musician-tenor saxophone- U.S. Army 31st Dixie Division, Played w/ and oldtime friends w/ Charlie Barnett, Horace Silver, Art Mooney, Addison farmer, Jo Jones, Joe Porcaro, Emil Richards....just to name a few that I can remember right now...
We miss you terribly Dad...
Sometimes I might even put in a little Pavarotti or Bocelli while makin' macaroni on sunday!:)
Record Label: Seeking label,liscensing,distribution,management
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Ways you can help and support...download, donate, vote etc...

Hey Everybody...If you'd like to help support me and my music and help me gain more exposure and reach more people across the world....Here's a few easy things you can do that would be ...
Posted by Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

About Joe...a few fun facts! By Joe's nephew Nick from Weth., CT(UPDATED)

About Joe...a few fun facts! By Joe's nephew Nicholas Ok, Someone said there isn't enough personal info about Joe...A number of people have requested...He really hates this, but here goes..I'll get st...
Posted by Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Joe Gande merchandise...t-shirts and more....

You can now pick up some cool new threads....buttons, stickers, baseball caps, coffee mugs....and more, at the Joe Gande, Cafepress store....I's been updated with new designs and products.You can even...
Posted by Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Joe Gande Ringtones Now Available...

Joe Gande Ringtones!You can now pick up some cool sounds and wallpapers for your cell phone!... customizable!Also...you can sign up at myxertones to receive text message updates from me on your phone....
Posted by Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:03:00 PST

Take a look at this...very cool...widget music players for your page!

PLEASE CHECK OUT THESE AND MORE COOL WIDGETS ON MY REVERBNATION WEBSITE...Just click the widgets tab on the page...You can make and customize your own and display it on your page:) Choose colors, aut...
Posted by Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:20:00 PST

New Friends and old-Please join our myspace group...repost

Hey Everybody,My nephew started a Joe Gande Myspace Group...I wanted to invite you all to please join.Feel free to post...!:)THANK YOU!JG Joe Gande Myspace Group ...
Posted by Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:50:00 PST

Gear & 48th ST

For whoever out there is into this kind of thing and might find it interesting... Being a plug in and play, creative person but also someone on a continuous lifelong quest for knowledge...
Posted by Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:08:00 PST

Dig Groovy Guitar Jams?...Inspired by Robin Trower...

Wanna hear some guitar? Check out this live 3 piece off the cuff improv studio jam..."Circa '73" Title inspired by the legendary Robin Trower and band -and me wearing the grooves off h...
Posted by Joe Gande and The Godsend Sessions on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:43:00 PST