Artist description Guy Schwartz is a Texas musician whose career has been driven by songwriting AND his skills on several instruments. Guy's recording career with songwriting partner Roger Tausz dates back to 1974. He is currently working with his longtime sidekick (as a team they are known as The New Jack Hippies), writing for, and producing CDs for many of the individual musicians in their huge collective band - known as Guy Schwartz & The New Jack Hippies - which performs with any 6 - 25 (of the 40 or so) members who may show up to play on any given night. When not doing concert work, or opening act slots with fixed times, the band often performs all night long without a break, reconfiguring itself over and over again, into many different types of musical units shaped to serve each song the best. It's an original rock band, an old-time R & B revue, and a Texas Icehouse Psychedelic jam all rolled up into one very different band

Music Style Rock, Blues, Country, R&B, Folk, Funk, Jazz

Musical Influences Beatles, Stones, Steely Dan, Stevie Winwood, David Bowie, Little Feat, John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Miles Davis, Moby Grape, Bloomfield/Kooper/Butterfield, Ray Davies

Similar Artists Grateful Dead, SRV, Steely Dan, Little Feat, Nevilles, Van Morrison,

Artist History Tausz and Schwartz also performed with a large band in the late '70s and early '80s.

Group Members Guy Schwartz - Guitar, Vocals, Songs, Bass, Keys... Roger Tausz - Bass, Songs, Guitar... Teri Greene - Guitar... Jerald Gray - Tenor and Alto Saxophones, Guitar, Vocals... Heath Spencer Philip - Vocals... Chaz Nadege - Keyboards, Vocals... Levon Louis - DJ, Keyboards, Vocals... Q - Bass... Patrick Brink - Trumpet, Piano... Marcos Melchor - Tenor and Alto Saxophones... Skeets - Alto Saxophone... Dru Rey - Trombone... Matt Underwood - Guitar... John Chupin - Drums... Albert Storo - Drums, Vocals, Guitar... Chuck Crow - Bass... Richard Z - Keyboards... Steve 'Fess' Schneider - Har

Instruments Guitars, Basses, Drums, Keyboards, Saxophones, Trumpet, Turntables, Vocals,

Albums 1978 Rock Side/Rhythm Side; 1997 Lessons Of The Past; 2000 The Return of The New Jack Hippies

Press Reviews "Pulling from the great 'genre' pool, The New Jack Hippies are a unique spin on bluesy, jam-style rock. Eclectic from the very sense of the word, the large conglomeration of musicians is remarkably creative and cohesive." -PJ Cooper, Houston Headline

Additional Info CDs/Albums with Relayer in 1977 & 1979, with Z-Rocks in 1981 and 1984, and with The New Jack Hippies in 1997, 1998 and 1999.

Location Houston, Texas - USA

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