Playing Since: 2005
Experience Level: Purty Good

Interests:
[Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Gender: Male
Age: 52

My Instruments:
Bass (upright and electric), Banjo, Guitar, Piano

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Band of Horses, Charlie Haden, Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Animal Collective, Adem, The Bad Plus, The Beatles, Ben Allison, The Black Crowes, Brian Blade (Fellowship), Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, The Claudia Quintet, Elvis Costello, Iron & Wine, Jaco Pastorius, Jane's Addiction, Jeff Buckley, Jim Black, John Coltran, John Zorn, Kevin Norton, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Michael Hedges, Nick Drake, Nickel Creek, The Police, Prince, Radiohead, Regina Spector, The Replacements, Rufus Wainwright, Sigur Ros, Spoon, Stevie Wonder, Thelonius Monk, Thomas Chapin, Tom Waits, Tord Gustavsen, A Tribe Called Quest, U2, The White Stripes, Willie Nelson, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and lots more

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Created 7/9/2010
Last Visit 5/24/2012

well, you don't care about the other stuff so i'll just tell you about my musical life: started playin electric bass in rock bands (heavy rap-y stuff....hey, it was cool at the time) got sick of that and interested in jazz went to UNCG (where I met my single biggest influence/most important mentor, Charles Gambetta) to study music, started a piano trio with fellow students there and started playin freelance jazz gigs around NC (Played with Paul Jeffries, Greg Hyslop, Thomas Taylor and a bunch of other great local players). Moved to NJ to finish my education at William Paterson Univ (Graduated with a Jazz bass performance degree) during my time at Willie P, i got a banjo so that i could have a musical outlet that didn't feel so pressure filled....fell in love with it but didn't have tons of time to play b/c i was playin so much bass about 2 years ago really started playin a bunch of banjo....wrote a bunch of tunes on it....convinced a couple of music school buddies to play the music with me (i'm very lucky that they're such nice guys and good friends!) and now we're a band called 'not for air' the end