Brian Andres: drumset and percussion.
Justin Hellman: upright and electric bass.
Blair Helsing: vibraphone, marimbas, percussion and electronics.
John LoGiudici, acoustic and electric guitars.
Influences
Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Badly Drawn Boy, Camel, 10cc, XTC, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Trilok Gurtu, George Harrison, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays & all editions of PMG, Tito Puente, Ry Cooder, Gregg Plummer, David Lindley, Gary Burton, Evelyn Glennie, Nancy Zeltsman, Steven Schick, Elvis Costello, Zakir Hussain, Steve Swallow, Terje Rypdal, Jack DeJohnette, Frank Zappa, Airto Moreira, Jose Neto, Tim Buckley, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Iain Matthews, June Tabor, Ashley Hutchings, John Martyn, early Traffic, Cal Tjader, the collaborations of Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Dizzy Gillespie, Chico O'Farrill, West Coast jazz, Arthur Lee and Love, Television and the solo work of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, John Bergamo, Michael Shrieve, Spirit, great radio and DJs, all editions of Steps Ahead, and countless more musicians past and present.
Sounds Like
A joyful noise. Buy our CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/echobeach
Echo Beach has played throughout the Western United States since 1991.
Our sound has been compared to the stylings of Cal Tjader and the Montgomery Brothers in the jazz world, but it's more than that. It's a cross-pollenation of influences representing our backgrounds in jazz, funk, rock, percussion ensemble, jamband, Latin and other styles. We do especially enjoy the inspirations of the jazz practitioners past and present who have used guitar, and/or vibraphone, and/or Afro-Cuban rhythms to express their musical personalities. You may be thinking "wow, that takes in a broad spectrum", and we agree...and it works for us!
A few of the venues we've played include: Sonoma Harvest Festival, Santa Clara Art and Wine Festival, Borders Books from Monterey to San Francisco, Polk Street Festival, Cato's Ale House in Oakland (as of January 2008 we're in our third year of residency there), The Park Chalet, San Rafael Farmers Market, The Mill Valley Film Festival, Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco, Anna's Jazz Island in Berkeley, Hayward Bistro, Civic Plaza in Phoenix Arizona, Menlo Park Concert Series, Redwood City Concert Series, Cupertino Concert Series, Pacifica Fog Fest, and Sonoma State University, among many others.
hey, thanks for the add! how did you first come to hear our music? have you seen us live?
if you want more of our music, we have podcasts, videos, and 5 live soundboard recordings available for free download on the music page of our website.
in addition, we have posted an ecard with music and video from our new CD & DVD.
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