Media, Music and A Mindful Muse
David Cate is a diverse improvisational keyboardist with footsteps that cross jazz, rock and experimental music. A life-long musician with many bands and songwriters, I began my career in Nashville from a family of musicians. Elton John changed my preference for the guitar in the eighties and after an affair with the piano, I never turned back.
Many bands through high-school including Infinity, Tenpenney, Sullivan Central Jazz Band. Performed in the East Tennessee State University Jazz band and educated by Dr. Jim Stafford, Bill Canny and Charlie Goodwin, I fell in love with jazz.
My love for music turned me toward radio in the late eighties and I worked for WKPT, WQUT and WZXY. I left radio for newspaper and have worked in advertising and marketing for twenty plus years. I am currently the New Media Director for The GoTriCities Network and develop regional website networks for this association of media companies and commercial clients in East Tennessee.
In addition to my day job, I have performed with several artists and bands including, The Watch, Ahab and The Wailers, Blue Ridge Jazz Ensemble, Reagan Boggs, Josh Green, HeadEast, Lee Greenwood, Ralph Emery, John Cowan and many others. My current project is an avant-garde funk and jam band named CLEAR with Jared Bentley, Greg Smith, Lance Mccloud and Willie Simpson.
