There are a number of different combinations, but here are the usual musicians - Mark Sterbank, Richard White, Jr., Kevin Hamilton, Quentin Baxter, Chris Williams, Lee Barbour, David Linaburg, Roderic Simmons, Lavonta Green, Lamont Garner...I also play in a band called Plane Jane (www.planejanerocks.com)
Influences
Harry "Sweets" Edison, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Terrence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Larry Graham...and anything else that is funky!
Sounds Like
I sound like I have been listening to a lot of different genres of music!
Charlton Singleton started playing the piano at the age of 3. While his older sister and brother took 30 minute lessons, Charlton would watch and then eventually “pick out” what he heard and observed in their lessons. His parents would eventually ask the teacher to include him in the weekly lessons.
Charlton would then go on between the age of 3 and 16 to study and/or take lessons on the piano, organ, trumpet, violin, and cello. In the summer of the 1988, he was the principle trumpeter with the United States Collegiate Wind Band. This ensemble was comprised of some of the best high school musicians in the United States. The United States Collegiate Wind Band toured over 9 different countries in Europe playing in some of the best concert halls in the world.
In 1994, Charlton received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from South Carolina State University. It was at SCSU that he would learn such important lessons in performance, songwriting, arranging, and teaching. He would leave SCSU and join 6 other musicians to form the band SKWZBXX (pronounced – “squeeze box"). The band would play from 1995 to 1999, release three CDs to great Regional success, and tour the East Coast and Southeastern region of the United States.
In 2000, Charlton became a member of the popular South Carolina party band Plane Jane (www.planejanerocks.com). He also became a public school music teacher and band director. From 2000 to the present, he has been in demand as a performer, clinician, and arranger of horns for many artists and their recording projects. In March of 2008, the Charlton Singleton Orchestra was born. It has since turned into the Charleston Jazz Orchestra, where he is the director.
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