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Taz Modi

Taz Modi

About Me

Taz Modi is a Leeds-based keyboard player. He runs the samba jazz group The Grand Wazoo, and performs with drum & bass queen Jenna G, Loog records artist Kreeps, and Freestyle Records band Malena. Taz's main project is the live club group Monkey See Monkey Do, which performs totally improvised live dance sets at club nights and events. Layout Provided By FreeCodeSource.com - Myspace Layouts

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/1/2006
Band Website: monkeyseemonkeydouk.com
Influences: Stevie Wonder. Keith Jarrett. Electric Miles Davis. James Brown. 'Can You Feel It' by Mr. Fingers. Stevie Wonder. Manuel Gottsching. The Beach Boys. Neil Young. Debussy. Stevie Wonder. Tim Buckley. Can. 'Nina Simone and Piano'. Chick Corea on the Fender Rhodes. 'Music for 18 Musicians'. Stevie Wonder. Joni Mitchell. James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'. Cosmic jazz. David Lynch soundtracks. Steve Roach. 'Zum Wohl' by Cluster. Airto and Flora. The Leaf label. Stevie Wonder. The delay pedal. 'Donny Hathaway Live'. Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane...
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My Blog

Green Man Festival...

I'm chuffed to be playing at this year's Green Man Festival with Monkey See Monkey Do. We're performing a live improvised soundtrack to the classic Cezch film 'Valerie and Her Week of Wonders' in the ...
Posted by Taz Modi on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:47:00 PST

Shooby Taylor

I'd like to draw people's attention here to Shooby Taylor. If you're unfortunate never to have come across the late scat singer, check out http://www.shooby.com and prepare to enter a new world...As t...
Posted by Taz Modi on Tue, 13 May 2008 01:47:00 PST

monkey see monkey do website is up!!

greetings all, just to let you know that the monkey see monkey do website is up and running; you can listen to whole tunes/sets, see photos etc, sign up to our mailing list, or just send any abuse alo...
Posted by Taz Modi on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:10:00 PST

interesting

just wanted to stick this up, it's a long article, but really quite interesting. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04 /04/AR2007040401721.html/
Posted by Taz Modi on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:03:00 PST