Artist description 40's R&B mixed with the energy of today's power pop. We're the New MAXIMUM R&B.

Music Style alterna-jazz

Musical Influences Guitar pop, jazz, funk, punk

Artist History Generous Portions, hailing from Buffalo, NY, began in May of 1995 as a primarily jazzy-rock group, consisting of Keyboards, drums, bass, and sax, and playing coffee shops and small bars. At the end of '95, they released a tape EP that attacted attention from people like Ben Folds. As time passed, GP started playing the premiere clubs in Buffalo, and refined their sound to a catchy, powerfully sax-driven sound. Soon, guitar was added where sax took a rest, and Generous Portions has a full length CD of diverse, punchy songs of love and despair. Generous Portions plays with the top groups in the area, and has everyone talking.

Group Members Joshua Hill plays Keyboards and sings. Thomas Stanford plays Saxophone and Guitar. Eric Christ plays Drums and percussion. Dave Hanley plays Bass.

Instruments Keyboards, Sax, Guitar, Bass, Drums

Albums Parul, GP EP

Press Reviews Generous Portions, "Parul". The debut CD by Generous Portions serves heaping helpings of jazzy spy music - that slinky, slightly mischievous, and even intense music adding character to the background of a film thriller. Much of that sound comes from vocalist Josh Hill's nice touch on keyboards and the cool sax work of Tom Stanford, which both kick in immediately on the opening number, "When School Let's Out." Hill's deep, raw vocals give the jazzy "Lauren," one of the band's most familiar songs, an unexpected intensity. A jazz-rock flow moves "Desire" along nicely, while things are slow and sexy on "Daphodyl." - Toni Ruberto, Buffalo News, April 2, 1999

Location Springville, NY - USA

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