Artist description vyZ is visual-music that is always improvized and has major spirit. It is music that avoids cliche and explores new territory. With roots in bebop, prog rock, free jazz, classical and funk, vyZ crosses all the standard musical boundaries. vyZ creates spontaneous musical combustion that produces nothing less than a cinematic/fusion orchestra of surprising energy.

Music Style Jazz Fusion, Free Jazz, Improvizational

Musical Influences Miles Davis, Jack DeJohnette, Jimi Hendrix

Similar Artists Miles Davis, Sam Rivers, Sun Ra

Artist History As the sonic bass guitar artist of "vyZ", Rich provides both the harmonic atmosphere, melodic counterpoint and perfectly syncronized backend sound to the music. He uses a variety of bass guitar effects and original amplification techniques, that totally push his range of bass playing into a leading instrumental presence. Rich Damone spent most of his professional music career playing upright bass with many jazz legends such as Kenny Kirkland, Clifford Jarvis, Sam Rivers and Archie Shepp. John Pritchard is the pulse master, orchestrator, percussionist and visual-music composer of "vyZ". John has a unique electronic drumming style of simultaneously playing keyboards with one hand while drumming on his midi drum kit with the other. John comes from a solid jazz/rock drumming background and has great regard for all the indigenous, tribal traditions of rhythmic music around the world. He has played and recorded with Native American flute master, Ken Littlehawk, drummed on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, and has performed at St. John the Divine in NYC with world famous jazz drummer, Jack DeJohnette.

Group Members Rich Damone on electric bass John Pritchard on electric drums/keyboards guest artist: Adam Holzman on keyboards

Instruments bass, drums, keys

Albums Tuned-in

Press Reviews see http://www.pritchardschool.com/review.html

Additional Info Multimedia band for Pritchard School of Digital Arts

Location williamstown, ma - USA

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