MUSICAL:
Tori Amos, The Art of Noise, Ginger Baker, Joey Baron, Beastie Boys, Kevin Bobo, Terry Bozzio, Nate Brown, Johnny Cash, Frederic Chopin, Vinnie Coliauta, Chick Corea,
Crash Test Dummies, George Crumb, Dr. Demento, The Dresden Dolls, Tan Dun,
Fishbone, Ben Folds, Steve Gadd, George Gershwin, Mickey Hart, Stephanie Morgan, Bill Laswell, Led Zeppelin, The Meters, Pat Metheny, The Monkees, Morphine, Taras Nahirniak, Willie Nelson, Carl Orff,
Over the Rhine, Neil Peart, Prince, Sergei Prokofiev, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rande Sanderbeck, Paul Simon, Sting, Gordon Stout, Tchaikovsky, Tool, Vinx,
Greg Woodward, Weird Al Yankovic, Frank Zappa, John Zorn
NON-MUSICAL:
Alan Watts, Lao-tse, Douglas Adams, Monty Python, JK Rowling, Isaac Asimov, T-mo, Lemony Snicket, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wicked (the book), Life of Pi, Tom Robbins, Madeleine L'Engle, The Onion, Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Robert M. Pirsig, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam, Pee-wee Herman, Jim Henson, and you
I'm a percussionist, composer, producer, and teacher. Classical, jazz, rock/pop, funk, experimental, etc. I teach at UNC-Asheville and the Asheville Music School. I play with lots of folks. I call myself an abstract romanticist. I try to create musical worlds that you've never been to before, but where you feel right at home.
"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end - success or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played."
- Alan Watts
Hi Matthew Richmond! Thanks for the friendship. We have a show coming up in Raleigh, NC May 30th. Check the event link below for details. Hope to see you there! Click Here To View Event <>>> <>>>
VERTIGO JAZZ PROJECT –
CD RELEASE PARTY and
LIVE FILMING FOR FUTURE MOVIE
Friday, March 13, 2009
Emerald Lounge – doors open @ 9:00 pm
with special guests The Mantras and Selectah Cleofus
Video production on site by Gauche Productions
www. myspace. com/vertigojazzproject
Vertigo Jazz Project will be presenting the release of their first CD on Friday, March 13 at the Emerald Lounge. Doors open at 9:00 pm. Selectah Cleofus will be the DJ for the evening. He will be performing before and after Vertigo Jazz Project. The Mantras (www. themantras. net) will be performing immediately after Vertigo Jazz Project. The evening will be filmed by Gauche Productions. The DVD will be released later this year.
Well, '09 is here babies, and man are we ready! Vertigo Jazz Project is shooting out the gate with a tremendous night of live music w/ fusion masters Gongzilla at Stella Blue on SATURDAY 1/24/09!!! We will be joined by a full horn section of Asheville allstars for this show featuring Derrick Johnson (trombone) of Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band, Ryan Knowles (sax) of The Afromotive, and Justin Ray (trumpet) of The Michael Buble' Band (yes ladies; that Michael Buble Band).
Plan on many suprises from this conglomerate of established and rising stars of Asheville and beyond. This will be a big one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GONGZILLA: Journalist Bill Milkowski called GZ "simply mind-boggling". Gongzilla first released a series of mostly instrumental albums featuring guest guitarists on each one, including jazz fusion legends Allan Holdsworth, David Torn and David Fiuczynski. More recently, Gongzilla has included some U.S. jamband heroes, like guitarist Chuck Garvey of moe., and has emphasized vocals, crafting songs which fuse with improvisational rock. Contradictions and balance; Rowe and Lozaga sing cool songs that will singe your soul while balancing both the hyper precision and the rockin' mayhem this band is capable of live. The new studio record "Five Even" includes the aforementioned Garvey as well as Jake Cinninger of Umphrey's McGee plus guitarist David "Fuze" Fiuczynski (Screaming Headless Torsos) with bassist Kai Eckhardt of Garaj Mahal sitting-in too!
My band is playing @ The Emerald Lounge Jan. 8th come check us out! We have 303s, 404s, Microkorgs, Circuit Bent Casios, Glockenspiels...and a bunch of other cool stuff!
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