Member Since: 2/1/2006
Band Website: michaelcoston.com
Band Members:
Michael Coston - all instruments & programming, scores and compositions, sound engineering and mix mastering.Michael Coston uses equipment by:
Apple Logic Studio
Audiotechnica
Aphex
Behringer
Bose
Compaq
Creative Labs
dbx
Dell
DigiDesign
E-mu
East West Sounds
Fender
Furman
Fxpansion BFD Drums
Korg
Lexicon
Linksys
Logitech
Mac Pro 8-core Processors
Mackie Designs
M-Audio
MOTU
Native Instruments
Omnirax
Panasonic
Philips
ProCo
Quantegy
Re'an
Roland
Shure
Sony
SSL 4000 Suite
Tascam
Ultimate
WAVES Native Diamond Suite
Western Digital
Whirlwind
Yamaha
MIKE'S SHOUT OUTS!:
Billy Cobham
Marcus Miller
Omar Hakim
Poogie Bell
Dean Brown
Roger Byam
Bobby Broom
Bob Franceschini
Justin DiCioccio
Joe Lovano
Weldon Irvine *
Carl Bartlett
Lenny White
Al Flythe
Don Blackman
Bill Evans
Denzil Miller
Nard
Terry Burrus
Foley
Tonni Smith
Lesette Wilson
Howie Grate
Mike Fitzbenjamin
Elizabeth Cannon
Barry Sonjohn Johnson
Najee
Tom Browne
Charlie Drayton
Wayne Cobham
Butch Hobson
Clifford Monroe
Lizz Chisholm
Danny Walsh
Kenny Washington
Reggie Washington
Al McDowell
Damon Banks
Dave Burnett
Gene Lake
George Duke
Wayne Shorter
Donald Harrison, Jr.
Lalah Hathaway
Larry Graham
Herbie Hancock
Sheila Escovedo
Kat Dyson
Rhonda Smith
Nicki Richards
Alphonso Johnson
Ron Carter
Ron Carter, Jr.
Kim Davis
Stanley Clarke
Benny Rietveld
Tony Lewis
Keith Jordan
Lennard Mendoza
Lenny Underwood
Helen Sung
Lonnie Plaxico
Cindy Blackman
Tommy Campbell
Victor Bailey
Schuyler Deale
Rocky Bryant
Hiram Bullock
Kenny Garrett
Stan Wallace
Michael Bearden
Ivan Hampden
Anthony MacDonald
Ralph MacDonald
Bernard Purdie
McCoy Tyner
Joe Sample
Dennis Chambers
Billy Hart
Jack DeJohnette
Kenn Hicks
Terri Lyne Carrington
John Blackwell
Matthew Garrison
Tom James
Yolanda Adams
Sheba Freeman
BeBe Winans
Fred Hammond
Toni Seawright
Tony Terry
Roger Thomas & N7
Patches Stewart
Bobby Sparks
Keith Anderson
Tal Wilkenfeld
Joey DeFrancesco
Michael Johnson
Alicia Keys
Erika Rose
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Bruce Flowers
Dick Parsons
Susan L. Taylor
Debra Parker
Angela Burt Murray
Sydne Bolden
Naomi Campbell
Q
Chris Webber
Gordon Sumner
Rogers Nelson
and Michael Jordan
Remember...
Charles "Buddy" Bolden
(9/6/1877-11/4/1931)
Joseph "King" Oliver
(12/19/1885-4/10/1938)
Bessie Smith
(7/-/1892-9/26/1937)
Sidney Bechet
(5/14/1897-5/14/1959)
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
(4/29/1899-5/24/1974)
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
(8/4/1901-7/6/1971)
Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke
(3/10/1903-8/6/1931)
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
(5/21/1904-12/15/1943)
William "Count" Basie
(8/21/1904-4/26/1984)
Coleman Randolph Hawkins
(11/21/1904-5/19/1969)
Bennett Lester "Benny" Carter
(8/8/1907-7/12/2003)
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III
(12/25/1907-11/18/1994)
Lionel Leo Hampton
(4/20/1908-8/31/2002)
Benjamin Francis Webster
(3/27/1909-9/20/1973)
Lester Willis Young
(8/29/1909-3/15/1959)
Arthur Tatum, Jr.
(10/13/1909-11/5/1956)
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky aka Artie Shaw
(5/23/1910-12/30/2004)
Roy David Eldridge
(1/30/1911-2/26/1989)
Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans
(5/13/1912-3/20/1988)
Woodrow Charles "Woody" Herman
(5/16/1913-10/29/1987)
Kenny Clarke
(1/9/1914-1/26/1985)
Le Sony'r Ra aka Sun Ra
(5/22/1914-5/30-1993)
Eleanora Fagan aka Billie Holiday
(4/7/1915-7/17/1959)
William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn
(11/29/1915-5/31/1967)
Frank Sinatra
(12/12/1915-5/14/1998)
Ella Jane Fitzgerald
(4/25/1917-6/15/1996)
John Lee Hooker
(8/22/1917-6/21/2001)
Bernard "Buddy" Rich
(9/30/1917-4/2/1987)
Thelonious Sphere Monk
(10/10/1917-2/17/1982)
John Birks "Dizzie" Gillespie
(10/21/1917-1/6/1993)
Mercer Ellington
(3/11/1919-2/8/1996)
Nathaniel Adams Coles aka Nat King Cole
(3/17/1919-2/15/1965)
Arthur "Art" Blakey
(10/11/1919-10/16/1990)
Charles "Bird" Parker, Jr.
(8/29/1920-3/12/1955)
Mongo Santamaria
(4/7/1922-2/1/2003)
Charles Mingus
(4/22/1922-1/5/1979)
Milton "Milt" Jackson
(1/1/1923-10/9/1999)
Dexter Keith Gordon
(2/27/1923-4/25/1990)
Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente, Jr.
(4/20/1923-5/31/2000)
Ahmet Ertgun
(7/31/1923-12/14/2006)
Maxwell Lemuel Roach
(1/10/1924-8/15/2007)
Sarah Lois Vaughan
(3/27/1924-4/3/1990)
Ruth Lee Jones aka Dinah Washington
(8/29/1924-12/14/1963)
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell
(9/27/1924-7/31/1966)
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson
(8/15/1925-12/23/2007)
James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith
(12/8/1925-2/8/2005)
Samuel George "Sammy" Davis, Jr.
(12/8/1925-5/16/1990)
Miles Dewey Davis III
(5/26/1926-9/28/1991)
John William Coltrane
(9/23/1926-7/17/1967)
Raymond Matthews Brown
(10/13/1926-7/2/2002)
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan
(4/6/1927-1/20/1996)
Elvin Ray Jones
(9/9/1927-5/18/2004)
Hank Ballard
(11/18/1927-3/2/2003)
Walter "Maynard" Ferguson
(5/4/1928-8/23/2006)
Eric Allan Dolphy
(6/20/1928-6/29/1964)
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley
(9/15/1928-8/8/1975)
Ray Barretto
(4/29/1929-2/17/2006)
Lillie Mae Jones aka Betty Carter
(5/16/1929-9/26/1998)
Herbert Jay Solomon aka Herbie Mann
(4/16/1930-7/1/2003)
Raymond Charles Robinson aka Ray Charles
(9/23/1930-6/10/2004)
Clifford Brown
(10/30/1930-6/26/1956)
Samuel Cooke
(1/22/1931-12/11/1964)
Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes
(5/2/1931-6/29/1991)
Ike Wister Turner
(11/5/1931-12/12/2007)
Arif Mardin
(3/15/1932-6/25/2006)
Joe Zawinul
(7/7/1932-9/11/2007)
Richard "Pistol" Allen
(8/12/1932-6/30/2002)
Alvin Batiste
(11/7/1932-5/6/2007)
Eunice Kathleen Waymon aka Nina Simone
(2/21/1933-4/21/2003)
Jimmy Garrison
(3/3/1933-4/7/1976)
James Joseph Brown
(5/3/1933-12/25/2006)
Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls
(12/1/1933-1/6/2006)
Stanley William Turrentine
(4/5/1934-9/12/2000)
Shirley Valerie Horn
(5/1/1934-10/20/2005)
Billy Higgins
(10/11/1936-5/3/2001)
Joe Henderson
(4/24/1937-6/30/2001)
Alice McLeod Coltrane
(8/27/1937-1/12/2007)
James Jamerson
(1/29/1938-8/2/1983)
Eric Gale
(10/20/1938-5/25/1994)
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. aka Marvin Gaye
(4/2/1939-4/1/1984)
Charles "Don" Alias
(12/25/1939-3/29/2006)
Wilson Pickett
(3/18/1941-1/19/2006)
Jon Lucien
(1/8/1942-8/18/2007)
Curtis Mayfield
(6/3/1942-12/26/1999)
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix
(11/27/1942-9/18/1970)
Weldon Jonathan Irvine, Jr.
(10/27/1943-4/9/2002)
Grover Washington, Jr.
(12/12/1943-12/17/1999)
Richard Tee
(12/24/1943-7/31/1993)
Barry Eugene White
(9/12/1944-7/4/2003)
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley
(2/6/1945-5/11/1981)
Donny Hathaway
(10/1/1945-1/13/1979)
Tony Williams
(12/12/1945-2/23/1997)
Syreeta Wright
(8/3/1946-7/6/2004)
William Everett "Billy" Preston
(9/2/1946-6/6/2006)
Minnie Julia Riperton
(12/8/1947-7/12/1979)
James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. aka Rick James
(2/1/1948-8/6/2004)
Michael Brecker
(3/29/1949-1/13/2007)
Phyllis Hyman
(7/6/1949-6/30/1995)
Bob Berg
(4/7/1951-12/5/2002)
Luther Ronzoni Vandross, Jr.
(4/20/1951-7/1/2005)
John Francis "Jaco" Pastorius III
(12/1/1951-9/21/1987)
Bernard Edwards
(10/31/1952-4/18/1996)
Kenneth David "Kenny" Kirkland
(9/28/1955-11/11/1998)
George Howard
(1956-3/20/1998)
Michel Petrucciani
(12/28/1962-1/6/1999)
Gerald Levert
(7/13/1966-11/10/2006)
Influences:
Miles Davis
Billy Cobham
Elvin Jones
Tony Williams
John Coltrane
Charles Mingus
Bird
Jimi Hendrix
Sly Stone
James Brown
Ron Carter
Herbie Hancock
Stanley Clarke
Justin DiCioccio
Marcus Miller
Omar Hakim
Kenny Washington
Ralph MacDonald
George Duke
Grover Washington
Foley
John McLaughlin
Stevie Wonder
Narada Michael Walden
Sting
Wayne Shorter
Mike Stern
Pat Martino
Alphonso Johnson
Larry Graham
Jimmy Haslip
George Clinton
Bootsy Collins
RUN-DMC
Chick Corea
Lenny White
Al DiMeola
Hiram Bullock
George Benson
Steve Gadd
Kenwood Dennard
Vinnie Colaiuta
Jimmy Smith
Oscar Peterson
Art Tatum
Bob Marley
Joni Mitchell
The Doors
The Beatles
Janis Joplin
Bob Dylan
Parliament Funkadelic
Earth, Wind & Fire
Ike & Tina Turner
The Jackson 5
Carlos Santana
D Train
Mothers Finest
Tower Of Power
Curtis Mayfield
The Gap Band
Yellowjackets
Flora Purim &
Airto Moreira
Weather Report
Luther Vandross
Andrae Crouch
Donny Hathaway
Prince
Carl Bartlett
Lizz Chisholm
Herbie Aikens
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Brahms
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Bela Bartok
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Joseph Haydn
Sam Cooke
Mahalia Jackson
Aretha Franklin
The Funk Brothers .Gil Noble
Dick Parsons
Sidney Poitier
Malcolm X
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Muhammad Ali
John H. Johnson
Earl Graves
Susan L. Taylor & Ed Lewis
Jesse Owens
Jackie Robinson
BernNadette Stanis
Bryna Eill
Gene Krantz
Sugar Ray Leonard
Hank Aaron
Jim Brown
Reggie Jackson
Barry Sanders
Kareem
Michael Jordan
Bernard King
Julius Erving
Bruce Lee
Gordon Parks, Jr.
Coretta & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
and my family...
MIKE'S FRIENDS::
"Know these people...":
Marcus Miller
Poogie Bell
Dean Brown
Michael Patches Stewart
Bobby Sparks
Keith Anderson
Kirk Whalum
Kenny Garrett
Lalah Hathaway
Hiram Bullock
Bobby Broom
Reggie Washington
Najee
Will Calhoun
Wayne Cobham
Double-Z
Thatfemale Productions
Helen Sung
L-dia
Tal Wilkenfeld
Divi
Lonnie Plaxico
Victor Bailey
Terry Burrus
Gene Lake
Kim Davis
Curtis Smith
Cindy Blackman Music
Sebnem
Jay-Z
View All of Mike's Friends
Sounds Like: Michael Coston again.
Record Label: Costone Music- ASCAP/NARAS/LARAS/NMPA/CMRRA
Type of Label: Indie