David has been most influenced by his parents and the rest of his family and his closest friends. The bretheren: Grand Master Royale, D J Dope Dave, Aaron Tucker Richardson, a.k.a. ATR, Aaron Tamburello, a.k.a Aaron T. Musically, David's earliest influences were his parents, Parker Burns, Jim Tutt, Vivian Stanley, John Phillips, Ralph Martin, Ken Stout, Teodross Avery, Mark Worlein, Rick Luther, Bill Langlois, Melanie Jones Bryson, Joe Henderson, Delbert Bump, "Mr. B" in San Jose, Eddie Gale, Chester E. Smith, Early Times, Bradley "P Funk" Marshall, Peter "Split Pea" Keyes, Otis Mourning, a.k.a. Marc Allen, James Brown, Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bebel Gilberto, Miles Davis, The Police, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Prince, Seal, Kirk Whalum, Mark Turner, Willie Dixon, The Meters, the Marsalis Family, Stanton Moore, Galactic, Robert Walter, Lonnie Smith, Jimmy Smith, Chris Botti, Sting, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Kraftwerk, Duran Duran, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Deep Forest, Coldplay, A Tribe Called Quest, Dr. John, Enigma, Roy Hargrove, Kenny Garrett, Cannonball Addrely, Johnny Mandel, and the list goes on and on...
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Please listen for yourself. David's music is an expression of his soul. Rhythmically charged and funky or quiet, smooth and silky; his music is honest and meant to make you move your body whether on the dance floor or in more intimate quarters. David performs as a soloist, or in duos, trios, quartets... Fat Soul is David's funk band, but he also plays a lot of jazz and pop music and his production often includes varied influences from African music to Southern Rock and Blues. To check out Fat Soul go to www.myspace.com/fatsoulmusic. Check each gig here on MySpace to find out what instrumentation David will be playing with. David's jazz playing probably reminds people of players like Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, Joe Lovano, Zoot Sims, and Ike Quebec. His funk is heavily influenced by New Orleans music, James Brown, Prince, and more. Some say it reminds them of the Brecker Brothers.
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DAVID HALLIDAY
Saxophonist David Halliday's roots stretch back to northern California. Born in Sacramento, raised in Vacaville, in his teen-age years Halliday studied with multi-Grammy Award winner, saxophone legend Joe Henderson at Henderson’s home in San Francisco. David later studied briefly with Tony Dagradi at Loyola University in New Orleans. David holds a BM in Saxophone Performance with an Emphasis in Jazz Studies from Brigham Young University and is currently pursuing an MM in Jazz Performance, Composition/Arranging, and Education from the University of Utah where he was the jazz area's Teacher's Assistant from ’04-‘06, and studies composition and arranging with Dr. Henry Wolking. From fall ’06 – summer ’07, David taught jazz, band, and percussion at Park City High School and Treasure Mountain International (Middle) School, where he took the PCHS Varsity Jazz Ensemble from what was expected to be a rebuilding year to being one of only five high school jazz ensembles to receive unanimous “Superior” ratings at the Utah High School Activities Association State Jazz Festival. Halliday has won such prestigious awards as the (only) Outstanding College Performer Award at the Reno International Jazz Festival in 1996, and the Outstanding Collegiate Tenor Saxophone Soloist award at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow, Idaho each year, from 1999-2002. His professional career began in Sacramento with guitarist/singer/songwriter Early Times, in San Jose with organist Chester E. Smith and Blue Note recording artist Eddie Gale, and in the Napa Valley with Delbert Bump and the Braxton Brothers, all while David was still in high school. In 1994 David moved to New Orleans and hooked up with the New Orleans funk band Galactic, propelled by Stanton Moore's uniquely explosive drumming, with whom he performed briefly before returning to California to go on the road. Playing tenor sax with Oakland's soul/blues diva E.C. Scott and her band Smoke in 1997-98, David toured through 44 of the United States and performed for a week at Blues Hall in Athens, Greece. He performed with Chet Smith in Washington, D.C. for a video-taped performance that aired internationally in celebration of Chet's winning BET's (Black Entertainment Television's) Jazz Discovery Award. As a featured soloist in Synthesis (Brigham Young University's elite jazz ensemble), David toured through Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the U.K. Within the recording industry, David's saxophone work has been featured on the soundtrack to the long-running CBS T.V. show Touched By An Angel, the NBA theme on ABC television, a Corona Light television commercial, and numerous other local and national commercials and recording projects. His original music was licensed by CBS in late 2006. He appeared on-screen as a saxophone player in an episode of Everwood on the WB network, has appeared multiple times on KBYU television, and has performed the National Anthem at two Utah Jazz playoff games. David has performed with and/or sat it with many internationally recognized musicians, including Josh Groban, The Temptations, Galactic, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, David “Fathead” Newman, Stanley Turrentine, Bobby Shew, Kenny Garrett, Kurt Elling, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Kenny Kirkland, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Wycliffe Gordon, Ben Wolfe, Charlie Hunter, Larry Goldings, Eric Reed, Donald Harrison, Bob Sheppard, Terreon Gully, Greg Hutchinson, Matt Wilson, Javon Jackson, Eric Marienthal, Terell Stafford, Matt Dennis, Claudio Roditi, Byron Stripling, Roger Ingram, Eric Miyashiro, Kathy Kosins, Dennis DiBlasio, Joslyn Petty, Kurt Bestor, and Sam Cardon, among others. In 2003, David started his own record label, Lone Peak Sound, and released his debut album FLAMINGO - an album Emmy Award-winning composer/performer Sam Cardon calls "the best jazz to ever come out of Utah." Lone Peak Sound currently has six titles available which David has produced or co-produced: FLAMINGO, FAT SOUL's self-titled debut, A FAT SOUL CHIRSTMAS, Salt Lake City vocalist Melissa Pace's debut AM I BLUE?, jazz vocalist Angela Bingham (and Kenji Aihara's) duet masterpiece EVERYTHING I LOVE, and Nicole Madison’s debut P.S. I LOVE YOU. He’s also currently producing the debut album of Dr. Steve Lindeman, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Jazz Studies at BYU. David is currently one of the most in-demand saxophonists and clinicians in the Mountain West, playing in California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, and teaching at The Music School in American Fork, UT, and at the Jackson Hole Music Experience’s Rock ‘n’ Rock camp. To schedule David for performance, production or a private lesson, contact him directly at lonepeaksound@yahoo.com. For more information about David including performance dates, visit www.myspace.com/davidhalliday.
Thank you for your friendship. Please check out the my flyer for the great lineup of musicians I’m going to be working with at the Iridium Jazz Club on June 16th. I am so excited! Peace and love, Pat Holley
Wow it's been a while since we last spoke I hope things are going well for you as for me looks like Ill be releasing a new cd again this spring cd and video ...checkout the snippets to my cd on my myspace. I hope this finds you doing well and living all yopur dreams.
Thanks for the add Dave! Yeah, I totally dig what you did with drums and reeds, but the infamous LM made it kinda like Ringling Bros... "Thangs" are good here. Did you check out Chris Botti's PBS special... WOW - kicking Band! Hope we cross paths again and get to "collaborate"... All the best to you my friend C.
Hey Happy New Year to you too! It seems like it has been forever since I saw you last! I read that you're going to Utah right now, is that still right? Good to hear from you. Love the music as always.
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