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About Me

Davy Mooney was born and raised in New Orleans, and is excited to be spending more time back in the city of his birth working with the Monk Institute Septet. Some recent career highlights of his are: Mooney's first release on the new jazz label LateSet records, featuring saxophonist John Ellis, drummer Simon Lott, bassist Matt Clohesy, and organist Brian Coogan, is slated for release here in the United States and also in Japan in February of 2008. Mooney participated in the 2005 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Guitar Competition, performing with Terri Lyne Carrington, Chris Potter, Bob James, and James Genus before a panel of judges that included John Pizzarelli, Bill Frisell, Russell Malone, Pat Martino, and others. Mooney advanced to the finals of the competition and placed third overall, winning a $5000 scholarship. Mooney has been featured with trumpet player Nicholas Payton on the international stage, including a performance in Poland in October of 2006. Mooney made a duo guitar recording with John Pizzarelli, which will be released shortly. Mooney participated in the inaugural UNO Louis Armstrong Quintet, a group funded by a grant from the Louis Armstrong foundation to teach jazz to high school students in the New Orleans Public Schools. While playing in the group, Mooney had the opportunity to play with a series of great trumpet players, including Nicholas Payton, Mark Braud, Wendell Brunious, Maurice Brown, Randy Brecker, Charlie Miller, and Jeremy Pelt. The group performed at the 2005 North Sea Jazz Festival. Mooney has independently released two CDs of his original music: his debut, 2002's "In This Balance of Time...", and 2003's "Luckless Pedestrian," featuring Harris and Lott as well as bassist Tommy Sciple on 5 of the ten tracks. Mooney has appeared at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Ascona Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and performed at Lincoln Center in New York City.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/17/2006
Band Website: davymooney.net
Band Members: Simon Lott - Drums Scott Bourgeois - Sax John Ellis - Sax Mark Anderson - Bass Matt Clohesy - Bass Peter Harris - Bass Brian Coogan - Organ etc.
Influences: Bill Evans, Joe Pass, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Bernstein, Steve Masakowski, Hank Mackie, Jacques Demy, New Orleans, Denton, New York, Brazil, Linda the Dog, Angela the Wife, my band, your band, many others...
Sounds Like: me, hopefully
Record Label: Late Set Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

finally, a new blogzinho

Man, I sure don't update this MF very often. I just got back from Christmas in Brazil, which was tons of fun. This was the first time I got to do some serious hanging, musician-style, down there. I...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:30:00 PST

Been a minute

It's been a minute, America. I'm doing the same stuff. I'm focused on finishing up the recording with John Pizzarelli that you hear when you view my profile. Looks like we're going to lay down a co...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:34:00 PST

N.O.!

Wow, America, it's been a while since I blogged. A lot has happened. I went down to New Orleans again last week and it's still a fucking mess. i played at Snug Harbor, and also at a club in Lafayet...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:27:00 PST

This Blog MATTERS

So I was chatting with some friends the other night about this whole myspace thing and how all the music dudes are on here and we have our little pages and our little song samples and some of us have ...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Wed, 10 May 2006 07:19:00 PST

Where y'at New Orleans

I was just reading my last blog, and I'm it sounds a little bit sarcastic. But I really am excited about these East Village gigs, and I would love for the New Orleans expatriate community to come out...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Tue, 02 May 2006 08:29:00 PST

new orleans all stars

Hi all of you out there in myspace land. I'm currently blogging and trying to get a copy of my flood settlement from Fidelity Insurance. I can't tell you how much I enjoy the hold-music that they ha...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:50:00 PST

Day After Easter

Day after Easter, we had a nice get together over here in Crown Heights yesterday, and then we went by the Beer Garden in Astoria. That's a nice little place. And so it goes. I'm currently trying t...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:26:00 PST

squall (sp?)

I just got a new batch of Luckless Pedestrian CDs from the disc makers warehouse down in South Jersey. They look really good, I'm excited. Now I'll be able to blitz the clubs around here and try to ...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:28:00 PST

Night and Day

Played a fun gig last night at Night and Day in Brooklyn, with my band featuring John Ellis. A lot of musicians came out, that was cool, and John sounded killer. I was a little zonked out though, I ...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:56:00 PST

saudade

A lot of strange conflicted feelings lately. I've been getting little pangs of nostalgia for certain New Orleans activities that are no more, like going to City Perk, having dinner at my mom's house ...
Posted by Davy Mooney on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:04:00 PST