You never know who will drop by the Council Oak.
Special guests have included:
Clarence Clemmons - sax (Bruce Springsteen)
Paul Langosch - bass (Tony Bennett)
Gray Sergeant - guitar (Tony Bennett)
Howard Levy - harmonica, piano (Bela Fleck, Kenny Loggins)
Mike Smith - sax (Frank Sinatra)
John Michalak -sax (Julio Eglesias, K C & The Sunshine Band)
Influences
This could get extensive! But basically anything Jazz, blues, swing, rock, bee-bop, r&b, funk, gospel, and anything inbetween. My influences and all time favorites are Elvis, Louis Prima, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, Gershwin, Outkast, Muddy Waters, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Keith Emmerson, Ray Charles, Mozart, Chopin, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Creme, Led Zepplin, Donny Hathaway, Curtis Mayfield, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
I'm a piano player & singer actually making a living playing music! catch me at the Council Oak in the Seminole Hard Rock Casino 4 days a week with a cast of incredible cats with me on the bandstand.
My new CD is available at the club & on CD Baby very soon!
HI DALE Thanks so much for the friendship! I look forward to seeing and hearing you perform! Please stop by my personal "My Space" and check it out! I have a new blog message to all the Tampa Bay area musicians out there! Also, please check out my current band "OOH-LA-LA". We are the first friend listed on my personal "My Space" (below)!
Dale!! Thanks for the coffinvite! Heres to new friends who rock harder! Be damned! And damn sure to add my band too! -LEE www.myspace.com/dbydeathbecomesyou
