Artist description Gary Farr as a composer, has written, recorded and scored music for movies, TV pilots, commercials, video's and a CD-ROM movie. He finished an orchestral piece, "The Sun Symphony" in 1997. He worked his way through college playing in and forming local bands and backing up shows. While attending the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1974-75, he formed a group called 'The Tampa Jazz Quintet'. Ever since then, jazz has been in his soul. Jazz great, Oscar Peterson has been Gary's main influence through the years has well has Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk and Chick Corea. Saxophonist(Alto, Tenor, Soprano and Flute), Ron Fattorusso, as played and recorded with several international artist as a soloist and with Big Bands. A product of the University of Miami, he's frequently called for several types of music. Ron has worked with Gary since 1989. Guitarist Mitch Farber, as played and recorded with several bands from New York to Philadelphia (his hometown) to Atlantic City to Florida. Mitch resides in Coral Gables, Florida. He also teaches private guitar at Miami-Dade Community College South He does a lot of studio sessions for different artist. In 1996, he recorded on the new album for the hot reggae band, 'Inner Circle'. He currently plays with The Hot Brass Monkey Band and Samantha Farr & Secret Formula. Drummer Craig Pichanick recorded over half the session on "LOST" and played with Gary at the Sunfest CD debut release. His work experience ranges from drum clinics for Yamaha, Evans & Zildjan to working with notable musicians such as Chick Corea, Larry Coryell, Jeff Berlin & Jon Secada. He has an extensive discography with various artists. Also on the music staff at FIU, Craig trained with the likes of Joel Rosenblatt (with Spyro Gyra), Marvin 'Smitty' Smith (with The Tonight Show) & Ricky Sebastian (with Herbie Mann). Drummer Stan Baron, a student of Berkeley school of Music, spent many years as a studio musician in Nashville. A resident of Ft. Lauderdale, Stan worked in Las Vegas, Denver and Florida. He's been with Samantha Farr & Secret Formula since 1989. Bass player, Juan Natividad, originally from Barcelona, Spain has been with Gary since 1983. Juan started out playing trumpet in Spain listening to Mile Davis and several other American jazz artists. He played the trumpet on several cruise ships before coming to America were he picked up the bass. He's been a resident of Hollywood, Florida since 1976 working with local jazz, Latin and pop bands. With Gary's band, Juan primarily plays bass, however he is featured on trumpet on a few songs. Quoting Gary, "Miles lives"! In 2003, Gary relocated to the LA area to work on scores for film and TV.

Music Style SMOOTH to FUSION JAZZ and NEW AGE.

Musical Influences Oscar Peterson to the Beatles

Similar Artists I hope nobody!

Artist History Gary Farr & his "Lost" band started recording and gigging in 1995. They played in local jazz club's and festival's. In 1999 they debuted the jazz CD "Lost" at the biggest festival in Florida, the Sunfest in Palm Beach, Florida.

Group Members Gary Farr - piano/keyboards Ron Fattorusso - saxes/fluteMitch Farber - guitars Craig Pichanick - drums Juan Natividad - bass, trumpet Stan Baron - drums Samantha Farr - vocals

Instruments KEYBOARDS, GUITAR, SAX, BASS, DRUMS, VOCALS.

Albums LOST, THE GENTLE AWAKENING, DEEP AS THE NIGHT, FRESH BREW, TO BE FREE

Press Reviews Native South Floridian, pianist and composer, Gary Farr, made a successful debut at the Mojazz Cafe in Miami Beach, Florida the summer of 95'. Since then they have performed at music and art festivals and at the Sunfest 99'in Palm Beach. They released their first jazz CD called "Lost" on May 1 1999 atthe Sunfest in Palm Beach, Florida.The CD "Lost" can be purchased at Amazon.com, CDBaby.com or CDStreet. Check out his web site as well.

Additional Info Check out Gary's contribution to acid jazz and breakbeat with the Uni-Reversal Group.

Location Burbank, CA - USA

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