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About Me

First, I thank the musicians and teachers who have helped me along, including Syd Potter, Steve Munger, Bert Wilson, John Stowell, Dan Faehnle (guitarist for Diana Krall), Peter Jordan, Cameron Arneson, and Craig Marchun of the Cool Jazz Society. I'm a musican living and playing in and around Olympia, WA. I started performing recitals and concerts on clarinet as a boy, moving to piano as a teenager. When I graduated high school I got an acoustic guitar as a gift; by then I was playing weddings on piano, but guitar soon became my primary instrument. I studied under Phil Lawson and Phil Quigley (and also Glenna Zinni, all teachers at Music Six, where I now teach and work) before going to Western Washington University to study Jazz Arranging under Chuck Israels (bassist for Bill Evans, teacher of Paul Simon), eventually spending a year conducting the freshman big band. Now I have over a decade of experience teaching, tutoring, and leading ensembles. I've taught lessons and lead a student band at Music 6000 for the last two years and have worked with guitar, bass, piano, vocal, drum, clarinet and saxophone students. I continue to play professionally, most recently with Johnny Lewis at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, a concert DVD of which is available for purchase at www.johnnylewisband.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/10/2006
Band Members: I gig at clubs and concert venues as a sideman for local talent. Occasionally I front bands myself, mostly duos and trios. To drop names: Audiosattva; Jessica Blinn and the Cool Jazz Society; Lakewood Community Jazz Band, w/ Syd Potter, Cond.; Go Go Typhoon 7; Steve Munger; Johnny Lewis; Brooks Farrell; Gabriel/Mona Toma; The Post Modern; Paul Brassey; NMO; The 5 O'Clock Band (in 2003 and 2004 I conducted WWU's freshman jazz big band); Victims of Changes; and, coming up, a fusion group (working title, Silent Gray Brew).
Influences: I'll just name a few: the impressionists, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck/Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery/Jim Hall, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Paul Desmond/Stan Getz, Bert Wilson/Steve Munger, Jimi Hendrix/John McLaughlin, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley/the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Paul Simon, Frank Zappa, U2, Weezer, Sublime, Cake, the Mars Volta, Sondre Lerche, and a whole lot of anonymous world/folk musicians found on field recordings
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Audiosattva

Well, there it was, loud, wild, adventurous, and, sadly, done.Last Saturday night was Audiosattva's last show, down @ the 4th Ave Tav in our hometown, Olympia.We started just as an excuse to play weir...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:14:00 GMT

Go Go Typhoon 7

Just started gigging with a new band, instrumental surf rock, starring Reid Anderson (fellow Music 6000 alum) on bass, Matt Wade on Gretsch guitar, Zac Lawson (his father was a legend around here) dru...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:38:00 GMT

Lesson times available

reposted from craigslist:Hello, I'm Daven Tillinghast, a jazz guitarist with a lesson studio in Olympia's largest music store, and I have several openings in my Sunday schedule for beginning through a...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:20:00 GMT

Johnny’s big show

Well, there I was, standing backstage, looking past the curtains at the string quartet and waiting for my next spot to start. It was really cool, it was a real show, I mean, I play lots of gigs,...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:39:00 GMT

Coolest Jam

Last night I played a party with Steve Munger, local sax man. We had a great time playing some real nice (mostly straight-ahead) jazz for the first couple hours, gnoshing on finger foods at our ...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:18:00 GMT

Leaving Hera

Tonight I quit the indie-rock band Hera. I became an honorary member a couple months ago, and we've had fun writing songs together, but I simply don't have enough days in the week for another se...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:58:00 GMT

Friday Harbor

Played the China Pearl in Friday Harbor this week-end with The Post Modern. What impressed me the most is that Post was able to get up and play decently tight all night both nights despite not h...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:05:00 GMT

The Aerie

The Paul Brassey Quartet played at The Aerie in Centralia tonight. It was all in all a swell gig. The playing was good; I really like the room, my guitar sounds great in there, all those w...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:53:00 GMT

Bert Wilson, madman saxophonist

Last night I had the coolest jazz jam of my life. After practicing with The Paul Brassey Quartet (our debut is next friday), Russ Gores and I went over to Bert Wilson's house to sit in. Bert Wil...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:49:00 GMT

The Brooks Farrell Quartet

Somewhere between Charlie Parker, Paul Desmond, and Eric Dolphy is Brooks Farrell. A young alto player from Shelton, he plays in the Army band and has incredible chops, I mean, he can really blow on b...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:22:00 GMT