The band I'm playing with is called the Blue4Trio. Please visit our website www.blue4trio.com and our myspace page. You can buy our cd and download music, too.
Our band consists of Mike Daugherty, drums, vocals , and occasional ukulele,
Matt Weiner, string bass, vocals, and myself, piano, uke, cornet ,vocals, and arranging. Matt and Mike are starting to become more involved in the arranging, as we now do some of it in rehearsals.
We maintain a full schedule in Seattle, playing out of town mostly in the summer. We'll be going to France in June of 2008, and doing some performiong with the Stolen Sweets in Portland, Oregon. Also, we're planning a tour of Alaska at the end of August.
I sit in with Tom Bennet and the Rolling Blackouts at St. Clouds restaurant some Mondays, C.T.'s Suicide Jack at the Owl & Thistle Pub and Craig Flory and Del Rey at Cafe Racer in Ravenna.
Influences
Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Nat King Cole (vocal & piano), Lester Young, Billie Holiday (30's), Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Stuff Smith, Buck Clayton, Chet Baker, Ahmad Jamal (with Israel Crosby & Vernel Fournier), Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, The Rhythm Boys, The Mills Brothers, The Cats and the Fiddle, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Dinah Washington, Jimmy Giuffre, Jimmy Rowles, Slim Gaillard, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Count Basie and the All-American Rhythm Section, Jack Teagarden
New Orleans: Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Domino, James Booker, Professor Longhair, Eddie Zip, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Jerry Jumonville, Snooks Eaglin, Meters
Blues: Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Memphis Minnie, Albert Ammons, Otis Spann, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Blind Willie McTell, Leroy Carr, Bessie Smith, Big Maceo, Tampa Red
Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk:
Ray Charles, James Brown, The Ravens, Jackie Wilson, Sam N' Dave, Booker T./Stax, Otis Redding, Motown, James Jamerson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Sly
"Classical": Bach, DeBussy, Villa Lobos, Stravinsky, Ravel, Gershwin, Mozart,
Roslyn Tureck, Andres Segovia, Julian Bream
Songwriters:
Gershwin, Arlen, Yip Harburg, Johnny Mercer, Waller, Willard Robison, Harry Warren, Sammy Fain, Vernon Duke, Rogers and Hart, Leiber and Stoller, Randy Newman, Willie Dixon, Bob Dylan, Lennon & McCartney, Chuck Berry
Western & Country:
Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan, Merle Haggard, Bobby Bruce, Hank Williams, Roger Miller
Rockabilly/Rock n Roll:
Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Ventures, The Rock 'n Roll Trio, Chuck Berry
Rock:
Beatles, Byrds, Moby Grape, Beach Boys, The Band, early Dylan, Jimmie Hendrix (1st album) Janis (but what a shitty band!)
Teachers, Friends, and Neighbors:
Robert Heckman, Gary Foster, Warne Marsh, Buddy Collette, Truman Fisher,
Eddie Zip, David Jackson, Jim Gordon, Lee Thornburg, Jerry Jumonville, John Reynolds, Miriam Cutler, Loraine Schwartz, Hugh Frederick, Robert Armstrong, Al Dodge, Ben Staley, Don Thomsen, Eugene Jablonsky, Marc Sorger, Larry Brown, Tim Langford, Craig Flory, Cyd Smith, Three Track Mind, Hans Teuber, Marco, Nova, David Miles Keenan, Jo Miller, Matt Weiner, Mike Daugherty
"Ticklin' The Strings" by Sweet Hollywaiians
Amazing Japanese hot string band playing 1920's, 30's, 40's style hawaiian, swing, calypso, blues, italian music and originals,featuring vintage instruments.3 songs with Robert Armstrong and Tony Marcus(from Robert Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders)
"The Sweet Hollywaiians have probably the best feel for this 20's music of any string band working today. They manage the rare feat of sounding relaxed even when their playing is hot, are top notch musicians with tasteful arrangements and a full, rich, warm sound.Plus, they have a nice gamut of tunes, from King Nawahi to Giovanni Vicari to Bobby Leecan. See them live, if you can, for an unforgettable experience. If you can't, buy their Cds!" ~ Terry Zwigoff
The new CD sounds fabulous! Great songs, tight harmonies, smooth playing and nicely recorded too. Really has a nice sound. Thanks for asking me to play...oj
Do NOT let this guy near a piano, seriously he will turn it into a bomb and blow you away!
Thanks for inviting me to your friends. My new 45 record is available from my page, it comes in GOLD and with a free copy on CD so you can play it in your car too. Thanks again for finding me and diggin' my stuff. Keep Rockin' Marshall Scott Warner
Hey Casey, That's a cool video of you on YouTube. Well, that's because you are so cool. The footage makes me miss NY. Hope to see you sooner than later. Love ya!
