Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, Joey DeFrancesco, Marcus Miller, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, New Kids On The Block, Ashlee Simpson, John Davidson, Kathie Lee Gifford
I'm a 48 year-old keyboardist living north of Tampa, Fl. I'm an incredible human being and I'm gonna take a minute to let you know just how important I think I am.
I've had the gig with Smooth Jazz sax player Richard Elliot since 1992 and, through him and his management, have had the good fortune of working with a wide assortment of artists - from David Sanborn, Marcus Miller and Chris Botti (on recent Smooth Jazz Cruises) to tours with Rick Braun, Peter White, Mindi Abair, Gerald Albright, Jonathan Butler, Oleta Adams, Kirk Whalum, Jeff Golub, Marc Antoine, Warren Hill, Craig Chaquico and other top Smooth Jazz performers. My track "Sly" (off Richard Elliot's 2004 "Ricochet" CD) went on to become the 2nd most played Smooth Jazz song in the country (R&R Chart) for a few weeks and stayed in the charts for months. In the 80's and 90's I toured and recorded with legendary bassist Jeff Berlin. In a departure from the Jazz genre, I used to work with Donny Osmond and was his Music Director from 1990 - 1992.
Only you could take a bit of software and make me look like a slacker on the bass.......Scarbee should be praising you for what you are doing with their wares.
Keep up dem badd-ass grooves Ron. Oh yeah....the Rhodes & Clav....MMmm, very fine.
If I hear the word "AMAZING" or "PERFECT", one MORE time.. ..oh Lord.....why can't people create their OWN ideas? Why do we just imitate what we hear on TV? The world is getting less thoughtful.
Thanks, Ron, for the comment. Happy to see that you are getting busy. I've been doing very well with my piano instruction business and also doing a lot of accompaniment work for a local choir. Hopefully, I'll do some gigs of my own music as well. It's all good right now...although the music biz, as you probably know all too well, is quite fickle.
Ron, I was just stopping by to view your profile and wanted to say, "hello". Hope that all is well and best wishes for all of your future endeavors. Respectfully Yours, ~John
