Artist description The band is just me, a guitar, sometimes a bass, some samples and Cool Edit Pro.

Music Style Jazz

Musical Influences Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Dave Brubek, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, B. B. King

Artist History Thanks to early exposure to jazz and classical music, courtesy of WTTW (the PBS affiliate in Chicago), I developed a sophisticated ear as a child. I loved jazz at the time, but no more than any other music. The turning point came when my mother gave me a copy of Herbie Hancock's {I}Maiden Voyage{/I} when I was twelve, and I tried duplicating George Colemen's eliptical solos on the clarinet I played in band at school. Six years later, the clarinet had given way to the guitar. Like most guitarists, I originally picked up the instrument to join a band and meet girls. And like most guitarists of my generation, my first band was a heavy metal outfit. Not what I originally wanted, but in 1988, there wasn't much else in the midwest for a budding teenage musician to play(grunge didn't make it's way to South Elgin until '92). I, like a lot of others, eventually fell under the spell of Jimi Hendrix, and I abandoned heavy metal for psychedelic sound, adding latin rythmns inspired by my beloved Santana records. This is what I played when I auditioned and jammed, but at night I listened to jazz. Eventually my ability matched my desire, and I began to play what I had listened to for much of my life. After a while, as I made more progress with my intrument, I became more intrerested in "thirdstream" music, in the traditional sense; the combination of jazz with my other lifelong musical love, classical music.

Instruments guitar (1982 Gibson RD artist reissue wtih a Victory neck and a Bigsby tremolo tacked on. The active circutry that this particular guitar came with has been removed and in the neck position I have a put in a Dimarzio humbucker (the bridge pickup is a PAF): The bass I use is whatever I can bum off my friends: and the recording and sampling is done on Cool Edit Pro v. 1.2

Albums TBA

Location scottsdale, arizona - USA

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