- american roots music - earlyElvis/Hank Williams/Chuck Berry/Jerry Lee/Brenda Lee
Bobby Darin/Howlin' Wolf/Muddy/Elmore/Robert Johnson,/Willie Johnson/Arthur Crudup
Blind Lemon Jefferson
brazilian&latin,african, indian classical of course, jazz
lots of soul inspirations.... Ray Charles ( saw bigband w/ Quincy directing ! wayback)
James Brown ( many live shows , as youngster) , Otis, Aretha, Jackie Wilsion , Wilson Pickett, Jeffrey Osborne, Shirley Caesar ( live @ Carnegie Hall..O MY GoD !!),
Marvin Gaye( free Central Park, when NY was sort of, for the People ), Gladys, The Drifters, The Righteuos Brothers
Sam Cooke ! B.B. !, Albert and Freddy King...The Dells, The Skyliners, Dion (& The Belmonts)......Frank Sinatra ! king of jazzpopvocals...........
later on.......the Beatles, Bob Dylan (the poet of my generation), the Stones,
Jimi & Jeff Beck Group, James Taylor., The Band, Bonnie Raitt, Neil Young, Jesse Colin Young,
Stevie Wonder, Van Morrison, Shawn Colvin, Bob Marley, Bill Withers, Jae Mason,
Wes Montgomery,......Moe Holmes, Gordon Gaines !!!......
Bert Jansch, Prince & Morris Day, Peter Gabriel, Sly, Earth Wind and Fire, George Benson,
Cindy Lauper, Bruce Hornsby, Tina Turner, Carlos Santana ! Billy Mann..................latest influnces: some of the people i've worked/performed with :
Danny Draher, Li'Nard, Marc Shulman, Milton Javery, Howie Wyeth
Keith Carlock,Ben Mauro, Karen Teperberg, Valerie Fedor, Chris Carter, Miri Ben-Ari, Ben Stivers, Dianna White ,......Steve Lawson, who was key, in gettin' me back up on the bandstand, in the 90's
.........Lenny Hat my brilliant co-writer of many tunes, many, yet, to be produced.........
Jimmy Satten, Chris Howard & the K.C. BlueBook, Brett Bass, Mindy Jostyn R.I.P., Mark Greenberg, Val Vigoda, Dave Kikoski !! , Danny Cipriano, Dave Fields, Nik Schuhbeck,
Ethan Eubanks ( who provided me with opportunity to show my Bitter End Family "Elvis Cazio", Cliff Schmitt, Andy Galore , Dave Mann, who brought many top players, into the mix, via his exciting and always changing, 15 yr. stint as JamMeister.........
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My background in music started, in Providence @ nine when my mother showed
me a few two-handed boogie things on the piano at my Armenian uncle's Funeral Home .
( Uncle Harry also handmade my first stringed instrument, an Oud, that i kinda played along
with the R&R and R&B that was on radio & t.v. )
My Father was a big band & opera guy and took me to see some swingin' big bands as a youngster with my uncle Louie, an accomplished trumpeter,
who turned down a Glenn Miller tour in the 40's to stay in R.I.
and live The Good Life, which he has .
Regarding my singin'------ i dug in, and learned, w/ Elvis, Bobby Darin and then
became exposed to the Jackie Wilson hi-energy R&B performance !!!
I learned the tunes from those primary inspirations, note for note, word for word .
As a teenager also Ray Charles's rockin' Big Band w/ Quincy at the helm,
then, James Brown........both totally blew me away
at numerous live shows .
I acknowledged this self-taught, empirical path to my belting education,
on my first album's title, in 1989 " Radio Cazio "
Co-produced, out in K.C., with Chris Howard, my engineer & the executive producer, a dear friend, who i had met, while living in New Haven, for awhile .
I've also been on the Staff of two great live music venues, (the original) Filmore East & The Bitter End and have been privy to countless great acts, through the years .
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I play a few times a month in NYC with accomplished friends, players...see "shows" here....
usually latenight things. Hopefully, will get back in the studio soon to cut some new material .
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The 2nd & 4th Sunday Nights, every month, i luckily and almost always, get to do either a simple funky original tune or a classic R&B number, with The Bitter End All-Star Jam
.........there's ole' school classics & a couple of original tunes done impromtu on SundayNight, where The Bitter End All-Star JamBand supported me,
in top-flight fashion ! There are 6, now, on YouTube thanks to
Lil' Vinny n' Andrew n' Pat Winters........if u wanna have a gander.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/dancazio
We're moving our official Myspace Page to a brand new page! For the new record! If you want to be a friend of Marcy Playground and keep up with the band go to the new page and send a friend request! The band will be more involved with the new Myspace Page!
We're on the road all summer and fall!
New album - "Leaving Wonderland in a Fit of Rage" in stores July 7th, 2009! You can hear new songs on our new page!
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