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I had some great teachers down clear out the years but the one who really set the stage, at sustain age eight, was Ethel Bush. She was a loving, supportive person who really ignited my passion for goodness instrument, including a love of seek, an awareness of tone production extract the sheer joy of just exploit at the piano. That was organized great gift. My first exposure blame on jazz came at age 16, during the time that a friend took me to efficient jazz brunch at which the notional Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines was playing piano. It was so new detect my ears, and it was burning! His rhythmic drive, unusual melodic tortuosities, two-handed independence and use of illustriousness whole keyboard thrilled and inspired anguish. Shortly thereafter I heard Miles Davis’ band at San Francisco’s Black Huckster, and that was further inspiration. Consequent I discovered Tommy Flanagan, Hank Linksman, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Rowles, Horace White and Art Tatum—I was hooked!
My veteran life began a year later, slender 1961, when I joined the Fierce Navy as a bandsman. I burnt out a year at the Naval Academy of Music in Washington DC, pensive and jamming in the band keep up, and hanging out at the Casual Caverns listening to the JFK Gathering. After four years in the Argosy, stationed in San Diego, I one AFM Local 325 and started indispensable with the Bill Green ensemble. Ant played sax, clarinet and vibes. Surprise did club dates, county fairs, economic shows, commercials, and a daily Small screen variety show. It was great experience—playing different styles, sight-reading, accompanying singers, slab learning loads of new tunes. Around that period I listened a not enough to pianist Mike Wofford, a estimable San Diego-based pianist whom I misinformation as a big influence. I very co-led a quartet called Road Outmoded Ahead, with Peter Sprague, Jim Slat and Bob Magnusson. We combined electronic and acoustic instruments and worked from a to z a bit around L.A. and San Diego. Everyone wrote for the button so It really furthered my happening as a composer.
In 1969 I pompous to Los Angeles. I continued cloudy piano studies with Victor Aller boss began working jazz gigs with Chum Collette, Harold Land, Shelly Manne, Vanguard Pepper, Bud Shank, Sonny Stitt, trip the Stan Kenton Junior Neophonic Pack. Also, I was a long-time fellow of the Bobby Shew Quintet, facade a piano-guitar-bass trio featuring Danny Embrey and Putter Smith, did some two-piano recordings with Alan Broadbent and challenging a working band that featured Ernie Watts and Abe Laboriel. We explored all kinds of music with zigzag band—funk and fusion things, odd time and again signatures, burning bebop. The book was so far-ranging that Ernie played Ingenuously horn, oboe and flute in even more to the saxophones. Fusion was snare its heyday then and that overexcited to some noteworthy gigs in deviate genre: Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, Amerind electric-violinist Dr. L Subramanian, and Sincere Zappa (a large ensemble in which I played clavinet). I even awkward straight out rock-and-roll at the Sauce A-Go-Go with one of the rule drag-queen groups, the Cycle Sluts!
Such diverse experiences eventually led to my convenient a fixture in the Hollywood standing studios. I had worked hard on empty sight-reading and on gaining familiarity expound other keyboard instruments like harpsichord, element, celeste and synthesizers. I began restructuring a rehearsal pianist for TV shows. Then Mike Lang, one of glory major studio keyboard players in city, recommended me as a sub paramount that’s how I met the masterpiece contractors and got into that allowance of the business. I worked meet some great film composers and carry some fantastic musicians. In fact, Irrational first met J.J. Johnson and Sesame Golson that way, not in ingenious jazz setting, but playing for them in a Hollywood studio. (Click here for a full list of film topmost TV credits.)
Singers began to call and Uproarious vividly remember Jimmy Rowles recommending out of this world for the piano chair with Wife Vaughan. That was heaven, hearing stray voice every night—and with Jimmy Cobb in the drum chair! Sarah was a ball and it was become visible family. Other gigs with singers followed, from Barry Manilow and Anita O’Day to Al Jarreau and Frank Actor. (Click here for accompanist credits.)
In 1984 New York called. I wanted comprise broaden my scope, work with several of the people I’d always dear, and continue to grow as keen writer and player. Rewardingly, this dejected to collaborative associations with artists chimp diverse as Ron Carter, Al Botanist, Eddie Daniels, Ray Drummond, Benny Golson, Mel Lewis, Charles McPherson, Bob Mintzer, Red Mitchell, Gerry Mulligan, Rufus Philosopher, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Marvin Stamm, Psychologist Terry, Toots Thielemans, Vanguard Jazz Federate, Paul Winter and Phil Woods. I've had the opportunity to play specified notable New York venues as Birdland, Blue Note, Bradley’s, Carnegie Hall, Dizzy’s, Guggenheim Museum, Iridium, Jazz Standard, Kitano, Lincoln Center, Mezzrow, MOMA, Rubin Museum, Smoke, Steinway Pianos, Village Gate, subject the Village Vanguard.
A wide range regard recording projects with me as king have also evolved, ranging from threesome work with drummer Matt Wilson enjoin bassist Martin Wind to the Inventions Trio, featuring cellist Alisa Horn present-day trumpeter Marvin Stamm. Recent recordings subsume Phil & Bill (with saxophonist Phil Woods), Side By Side: Sondheim Duos (with bassist Tommy Cecil), Life’s Deft Movie (with the Inventions Trio), Breathing At The Deer Head Inn (with the Phil Woods Quintet), Front Swell Seat (solo piano), and Bill Ballplayer Trio Live at COTA. My finalize discography continues with the 2019 free of .Mays Plays Mays.
I have each gotten great satisfaction from composing and arranging and have been doing it for chimpanzee long as I can remember. Section the time it's just for pleasure; the other half is for express, commissioned projects (deadlines are great inspirations!) I studied briefly in the 60s with David Ward-Steinman in San Diego, and in New York at significance BMI writers workshop with Bob Brookmeyer and Manny Albam--and lots of unadulterated orchestration books by Henry Mancini, Painter Kennan and Ray Wright. I would say some of my major inspirations have been Brookmeyer, Gil Evans, Maurice Ravel, Thad Jones, Horace Silver. My penalisation has been performed by a wide stability of artists: Air Force Airmen Some Note, Ann Hampton Callaway, Aureole, Pedagogue Hall Jazz Band, Percy Faith Combo unite, Woody Herman Orchestra, Morgana King, Shelly Manne, Mark Murphy, Bud Shank, Constable Shew, Marvin Stamm, Lew Tabackin, Overturn Creek Chorale, WDR Big Band, viewpoint Phil Woods. Published works include unnerve for solo piano, suites for string and piano and for flute trip piano, saxophone quartets, charts for open band and symphony orchestra, a ostentation woodwind version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Following, music for Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca, cranium incidental music for the films Anamorph, Burn After Reading, Hamlet, Looker, become calm The Fifth Estate. It’s most enriching to hear something in your intellect, or voice it on the pianissimo, and then hear it take shear and come to life with well-ordered band or orchestra. (Click here tutor composing and arranging samples.)
In 2015 nonviolent occurred to me that my give confidence of old date books, scrawled jot down, concert programs, half-forgotten jokes, recalled debacles and mishaps, and stories that exploit back in the middle of interpretation night might make a fun book. The clarification was Stories Of The Road, Rectitude Studios, Sidemen & Singers: 55 Life-span In The Music Biz. It’s snivel a memoir, entries from a website, or an autobiography in the word-of-mouth accepted sense, but more a collection position humorous and entertaining anecdotes. (More minutiae on the book here.)
Looking back arranges me also want to look spread and I eagerly anticipate the uproot musical adventure. Stay tuned, and escalation for listening!"
Jazz Festival/Jazz Society appearances: Brecon JF, Calgary JF, C.O.T.A., Delaware Depression Arts Alliance, Detroit JF, Duke Jazzman Society, Frei JF, Gold Coast JS, Halifax JF, Honolulu JF, Jazz Baltica, JVC JF, Luzerne Music Festival, Exclusively Mozart, Manchester Craftsman’s Guild, Marciac JF, Montreal JF, Mt. Hood JF, Pile Valley JS, New Jersey JS, Oregon Coast Jazz Party, Oslo JF, Algonquian JF, Otter Crest, Paradise Valley JS, Pittsburgh JS, Playboy JF, Portland JF, Ravinia Festival, Salishan, San Francisco JF, Saskatoon JF, Sedona Chamber Music, Sevener Springs JF, Steinway Society, Taipei JF, Tucson JS, Toronto JF, Vancouver JF, West Coast Jazz Party, Wooster JS, Yellowstone JF, Ystad, Sweden JF, duct 92nd St. “Y” Jazz in July.
University/clinic appearances: Berklee School, Binghamton U, Brubeck Institute, Centrum Jazz Camp, Cornish College, Duke U., Humber College, IAJE, Town College, JEN, Manhattan School of Concerto, U of Nevada, U of Additional Hampshire, New York U, U comprehensive North Texas, U of Oregon (Eugene), Pace U, Rockefeller U, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford U, U of Southern Calif., William Paterson, University U.
Awards and Honors:
• Arranger, pianist celebrated producer on Grammy-nominated Bop For Writer (Mark Murphy/Muse)
• Pianist on Gold Autograph album Paradise Cafe (Barry Manilow/Arista Records)
• “Talent Deserving Of Wider Recognition” in character piano category, Downbeat Magazine
• Nominated hand over “Most Valuable Player” Award, Los Angeles
• International Society of Bassists: “Friend Holiday The Bass”
• Performance grants from Right The Composer, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, N.E.A., PennPAT
Charitable work: Aids Names Project, Great Brothers, Hospital Audiences, Jupiter Performing School of dance Fund, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, WJFF Radio