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Craig Marquardo

About Me

For background info, see www.CraigsJazz.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/03/2006
Band Website: www.craigsjazz.com
Band Members: Craig Marquardo - vocals / Dave Fleschner - piano / John Shaw - upright bass / Charlie Dogget - drums / Tim Todd - electric violin
Influences: From Jazz to Rock and back again. Harry Connick Jr., Sting, Louis Armstrong, Peter Gabriel, Ella Fitzgerald, U2, Dr. John, Jacob Dylan, Cole Porter, Sarah McLachlan, Duke Ellington, Duran Duran, Howard Arlen, Brian Setzer, Count Basie, George Michael, Earl Fatha Hines, Phil Collins, Irving Berlin, Bryan Adams, Johnny Mercer, Hall & Oates, Ira & George Gershwin, INXS, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Robert Palmer, Jamie Cullum, John Mellancamp.
Sounds Like: Anyone we want to, as well as something you've never heard before.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

2009 PMA's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4enBmMsUB8 This is the debut of my new band, rock band at that, at the 2009 Portland Music Awards. The song is The Killers' 'All These Things I Have Done'...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:47:00 GMT

Finished Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLi3w4yzxDw
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:44:00 GMT

PMAs baby...see what happened

It was more than I could have hoped for. Sure, the stage crew had some comic moments with their delapitated curtain, and the all ages aspect of the venue had people on three levels - but otherwise it ...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:15:00 GMT

Me and Heath...

Heath Ledger dead at 28. Years ago, when I was all hoity toity in the movie business, I got a call telling me I should see this film. I saw it and loved what I saw. So I go out to California and they ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:11:00 GMT

Portland Music Awards

So I have been busting my ass for the last two months putting together this Uber-awards show here in Portland. I have an unbelievable slate of performers for the night (Art Alexakis from Everclear, Th...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:44:00 GMT

Birthdays and getting older...

Today I turn 35. I tell my friends, it's halfway to death. It's a joke, but it's not. I mean, it's true isn't it? I don't really have any desire to live past 70. While there are always rare exceptions...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:49:00 GMT

Music Spectator MySpace launched....please add...

Hey all, I finally got my magazine up on MySpace. Not giving all the content, but will be putting in some very cool extras - photos not used in the publication, maybe some audio clips from the celebr...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:31:00 GMT

Deleting some ’friends’

Okay, I finally had to do it. I was tired of the needless blogs with three surveys a day, someone promoting something so far away I couldn't get to it without a passport, or lord knows what else....
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:01:00 GMT

Feeling funky, yet in a funk (warning, I ramble)

You ever get that feeling...that even when things are going good, something still feels just slightly out of place. That's me for the last week. Just can't get my head out of my ass for some reason. T...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:02:00 GMT

Hope, Daryl Hall, my Dad

I woke up way too early this morning and my brain full, so I figured I would make a deposit here...lol. It has been a month of changes for me. The car accident, then I broke my toe (don't ask), then I...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:04:00 GMT