and away we go......Jerry Lee Lewis, James Brown, wilco, Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal, Big Star, Jimmy Smith, Keith Jarrett, Crowded House, Squeeze, Van Morrison, Brad Mehldau, Todd Rundgren, Stax Soul, Al Green, Sly Stone, Tom Petty, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, Fountains of Wayne, NRBQ, Debussy,Bach, Rachmaninov, Astor Piazzolla, George Jones, Little Feat, Red Garland, Charlie Rich, the late great Ray Charles, Elvis Costello, Freddy King, Otis Spann, Steve Winwood, Aretha Franklin-her Amazing Grace double album is my idea of The Liturgy, Los Lobos, Burt Bacharach and Booker T. and the MG's. Whatever it is, it's gotta have Soul..
I'm a NYC-based musician (keyboards, vocalist, & songwriter) who is a longtime member of the legendary Soul/Rock band, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. I have, as a touring band member, toured with Bon Jovi on its Have A Nice Day World Tour and can often be seen performing with Jon Bon Jovi on his solo gigs. Once in a while, I'll sub for Paul Shaffer on the Late Show w/ David Letterman. Recently, I wrote and produced the theme song "Give Some More" for Madison Square Garden's Garden Of Dreams charity foundation. "Give Some More"--also featuring the wonderful Robert Randolph on steel guitar and vocals-- is cranked through the Garden's speakers most every night during breaks in the action at Knicks and Rangers games.
Originally from Lima, Ohio, studied Jazz piano and Composition at The Ohio State University & Morehead State University, and moved to NYC in the mid-Nineties. Since then, I have hit the Downtown scene with Chocolate Genius, toured and recorded with the Folk/Pop artist Dar Williams, played the Blues with guitarists G.E. Smith and Steve Cropper, written and arranged music for television, advertising, Broadway, award shows, and real life recording artists....and about 1,500 cool and a few not-so-cool gigs in between all of that other nonsense.
Recorded in 1998, "No River" is my lone CD available at the moment.
Most recently writing, recording and co-producing the next Asbury Jukes record with Southside Johnny.
I have managed to meet many of my heroes, share grand (some not-so-grand) stages with many of them, and see the world thanks to the Rock and Roll. This Trip has gone so much further than I could have ever dreamt..and I'm still a Fan.
....Currently, performing in NYC with my own music series called kazeedigs..a series of shows dedicated to playing the music that lives in Heavy Rotation on my iPod, turntable, and 8 track player.......check out myspace.com/kazeedigs for more kazeedigs stuff.
I warned you that my wonderfully crazy German girls were gonna be there! LOL Thanks for the video shout-out ... VERY sweet of you. Have safe travels ... and I'll see you back in NYC in December.
JK, Thanks again for the heads up on Shorty's and have a safe trip abroad. Do some sightseeing and enjoy the camraderie and make sure Johnny doesn't forget his wallet like the Scooter Phil Rizzuto used to. Say hello to Rea and Anneli and Sally for me. And tell that Ashley that I still like the Byrdman on guitar. See you in December at BB Kings maybe I'll meet you at Shorty's afterward. All the best to you and your family, Kevin
Jeff, Took your advice and stopped for a Philly Cheesesteak on 9th and it was superb. You sounded great this evening and have a safe trip and try to keep abreast of the Phillies dominating the Bombers.
As always ... great to see you and the Jukes at BB King's on Friday. I almost made it to Danbury ... got as far as South Norwalk and then the train stopped ... $20, bad vending machine food and two hours later, I was headed home on the train and had to settle for y'all on my iPod instead.
See you in October ... same bat time, same bat station ... LOL
P.S. In my "review", I left out the part about the Ives reference though it totally cracked me up ... didn't think most of my readers would get it ... hmm ... think there's a clip of Three Places in New England on YouTube? hahaha
Greetings. Just wanted to share a little blurb I did on my blog about you ... hehe. As always, thanks for a great night (hmm ... this is all sounding very sordid ... but its not, REALLY!!!)
Sure as hell will be.........can't wait!! Any Eldeberry Wine?? I can just imagine you pounding those keys. " Drunk all the time feelin fine on Eldeberry wine"
Kazee!! What it be?!?! Hope all is well with ya. Definitely coming down to the Bitterend gig in May. Thanks for props. See ya soon and let's play too. TT :o)
Hey Jeff! Sooooo Cool 2 C all U guys at JBJs show last night.. I'm just calling it JBJ & The Asbury Jukes! Show was awesome-Thanks! (and I 2nd the Facebook thing!) Lisa
