Ryan McCaffrey
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Genre: Funk / Jazz / Latin
Location Cambridge, Un
Profile Views: 21327
Last Login: 3/30/2013
Member Since 6/13/2006
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnVrcGlhbm9zLmNvLnVrL3BpYW5vLXRlYWNoZXJzLmh0bWw=
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Type of Label Indie
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Bio
Ryan McCaffrey has a new band called The Ryan McCaffrey Project which is currently based in Cambridge. Ryan studied at Birmingham Conservatoire where he learnt jazz piano studying with some of the UK's top musicians including Julian Siegel, Liam Noble, Jean Toussaint, Arnie Somogyi and Mike Williams. He was a member of Funkshone (www.myspace.com/funkshone) who released an album called 'Shining' featuring music he has contributed. He currently lives in West Norfolk where he continues to write, perform and teach music. He has performed in many places including the 100 Club in London, Jazz Cafe in Camden, Extrem Sportbeko '08 in Norway and The Jagger Club in St. Petersburg, Russia. He hopes you enjoy his music. He is available for gigs, and to work with other artists. He is currently looking for venues to play with his new band and is available to play keys/sax since coming off a cruise ship working for Disney Cruise lines. Thankyou for listening! 'From bossa to blues, Arabic to African, up-and-coming jazz man McCaffrey covers it all.' as advertised for Theatre Royal Stratford East in Timeout 'London's finest' Gordon Wedderburn's Jazz Moods program on Generation Radio ................Myspace Backgrounds.... .. .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQiOasA_3sk -
Members
LIVE BAND: pERCY pURSGLOVE - trumpet, aNDREW bOWIE - tenor sax, lEE bLACKMORE - guitar, rYAN mCCAFFREY - kEYS, tIAGO cOIMBRA - bASS and rIC bYER - drums. RECORDINGS: COUNTDOWN: cOLIN sOMERVELL -Bass, jIM bASHFORD -Kit. COOL BANANAS: jOE eEGAN -Trumpet hUW mORGAN -Flute/Alto, cHRIS mORGAN -Tenor, lEE bLACKMORE -Guitar, iDA hOLLIS -Bass, tOM cHAPMAN -Kit, mARCOS vASQUEZ -Percussion. LAST MINUTE DECISION: jOE eGAN -Trumpet, hUW mORGAN -Alto, cHRIS mORGAN -Tenor, lEE bLACKMORE -Guitar, tYRONE bISHOP -Bass, tOM cHAPMAN -Kit. RUSH: jOE eEGAN -Trumpet hUW mORGAN -Alto, cHRIS mORGAN -Tenor, lEE bLACKMORE -Guitar, tYRONE bISHOP -Bass, tOM cHAPMAN -Kit, mARCOS vASQUEZ -Percussion -
Influences
Jamiroquai (Emergency on Planet Earth/ Return of the Space Cowboy), Herbie Hancock (Head Hunters/ Thrust/ Future to Future), Chick Corea (Now He Sings, Now He Sobs), Soulive (Next), Dave Holland (Processional), Lalo Schiffrin (Bullitt), New Jazz Hustlers (New Jazz City), 4 Hero (Two Pages), The Cinematic Orchestra (Everyday), Jazzanova (In Between), Emperor's New Clothes (Eyes That Burn), Jimi Hendrix (Purple Haze/ Voodoo Child), JTQ (Whole Lotta Love), Mother Earth (Mr. Freedom), Corduroy (Motorhead), The Brand New Heavies (Mother's Tongue), Dennis Rollins (Make Your Move/ Badbone & Co.), Acoustic Ladyland (Last Chance Disco/ Camouflage), David Holmes (Oceans 11 +12), Quincy Jones (Soul Bossa Nova/ all te music he wrote for Michael Jackson), John Barry (James Bond Theme/Capsule in Space/Escape from Piz Gloria and Ski Chase), Astrud Gilberto (So Nice), Glen Miller (Blues In My Heart), Carmen McCrae (This Masquerade is Over), Artie Shaw (Grabtown Grapple/ Concerto For Clarinet/ Special Delivery Stomp/ Nightmare/ Mysterioso), Benny Goodman (Stealin' Apples), Uri Caine (Nymphomania), Bobby Timmons (I Remember Clifford with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers), Eddie Costa (Broadway with Tal Farlow and Vinnie Burke), Medeski, Martin & Wood (Orbits), The Bad Plus (Everywhere You Turn/ Scurry), Jaco Pastorious (Jaco Pastorious -what an album!), James Brown (Sex Machine etc.), Curtis Mayfield (Move On Up/ Pusherman), Al Green (Let's Stay Together/ Tired of Being Alone), Terry Callier (Love Theme from the Sparacus), Jakatta (My Vision feat. Seal), Seal (Killer/ Crazy), Stevie Wonder (Everything apart from the cheese), Marvin Gaye (Got to Give It Up/ The World is X rated/ Let's Get It On), Zero 7 (Simple Things), Moby (Porcelain), Groove Armada (Superstylin'/ At the River/ Edge Hill), Morcheeba (Who Can You Trust?), Portishead (Dummy/ Portishead), Propellorheads (Decks drums and rock and roll), Acen (Trip to the Moon), The Prodigy (The Weather Experience/ The Fat of the Land), Frank Zappa (Village of the Sun), Andrew McCormack (Juliett), Oscar Peterson (It Ain't Neccersarily So/ Girl Talk), George Shearing (Bernie's Tune /Lullaby of Birdland), Horace Silver (Calcutta Cutie/ Lonely Woman/ Sighin' and Cryin'/ Nutville), McCoy Tyner (Passion Dance), Lenny Tristano (Lennie's Pennies), Sonny Rollins (Saxophone Colossus), Liam Noble (In the Meantime), Seamus Blake (Perk), Arnie Somogyi (Improvokation), The Partisans (Sour Puss/ Max), Kurt Rosenwinkle (Heartcore/ Zhivago), John Scofield (Uberjam/ A Go Go/ Works For Me/ Up All Night), Weather Report (Heavy Weather), Gerard Presencer (Chasing Reality/ The Optimist/ Platypus), Bill Evans (Concerto For Billy The Kid/Beautiful Love -watch the video), Charles Mingus (Goodbye Porkpie Hat/ Fables of Faubus/ Nostalgia in Time Square), Oliver Nelson (Stolen Moments), Wayne Shorter (Speak No Evil), Monk (Evidence/ Well You Needn't/ Bemsha Swing/ Epistrophy), Trane (Love Supreme/ Giant Steps/ Blue Train), Miles (Kind of Blue/ Live Evil/ In a Silent Way/ Porgy & Bess/ Star People) Anita O'Day (Whisper Not written by Benny Golson), The Sound Stylistics (Play Deep Funk) and the list grows longer day by day! -
Sounds Like
Herbie Hancock, Jamiroquai, Lalo Schiffrin, Quincy Jones, Horace Silver etc..
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9 Songs | Sep 21, 2008
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Bio:
Ryan McCaffrey has a new band called The Ryan McCaffrey Sextet which is currently based in Cambridge. Ryan studied at Birmingham Conservatoire where he learnt jazz piano and was a member of Funkshone (www.myspace.com/funkshone) who released an album called 'Shining' featuring music he has contributed. He currently lives in West Norfolk where he continues to write, perform and teach music. He has performed in many places including the 100 Club in London, Jazz Cafe in Camden, Extrem Sportbeko '08 in Norway and The Jagger Club in St. Petersburg, Russia. He hopes you enjoy his music. He is available for gigs, to perform background dinner jazz at weddings etc (please listen to Stella By Starlight) and to write music for TV and Film. He is currently looking for venues to play with his new band so please get in touch. Thankyou for listening! 'From bossa to blues, Arabic to African, up-and-coming jazz man McCaffrey covers it all.' as advertised for Theatre Royal Stratford East in Timeout 'London's finest' Gordon Wedderburn's Jazz Moods program on Generation Radio ....Myspace Backgrounds.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQiOasA_3sk
Member Since:
June 13, 2006Members:
LIVE BAND: pAUL sTUBBS - trumpet, dANIEL bAYLISS - alto, aNDREW bOWIE - tenor, rYAN mCCAFFREY - kEYS, tIAGO cOIMBRA - bASS and rIC bYER - drums. RECORDINGS: COUNTDOWN: cOLIN sOMERVELL -Bass, jIM bASHFORD -Kit. COOL BANANAS: jOE eEGAN -Trumpet hUW mORGAN -Flute/Alto, cHRIS mORGAN -Tenor, lEE bLACKMORE -Guitar, iDA hOLLIS -Bass, tOM cHAPMAN -Kit, mARCOS vASQUEZ -Percussion. LAST MINUTE DECISION: jOE eGAN -Trumpet, hUW mORGAN -Alto, cHRIS mORGAN -Tenor, lEE bLACKMORE -Guitar, tYRONE bISHOP -Bass, tOM cHAPMAN -Kit. RUSH: jOE eEGAN -Trumpet hUW mORGAN -Alto, cHRIS mORGAN -Tenor, lEE bLACKMORE -Guitar, tYRONE bISHOP -Bass, tOM cHAPMAN -Kit, mARCOS vASQUEZ -PercussionInfluences:
Jamiroquai (Emergency on Planet Earth/ Return of the Space Cowboy), Herbie Hancock (Head Hunters/ Thrust/ Future to Future), Chick Corea (Now He Sings, Now He Sobs), Soulive (Next), Dave Holland (Processional), Lalo Schiffrin (Bullitt), New Jazz Hustlers (New Jazz City), 4 Hero (Two Pages), The Cinematic Orchestra (Everyday), Jazzanova (In Between), Emperor's New Clothes (Eyes That Burn), Jimi Hendrix (Purple Haze/ Voodoo Child), JTQ (Whole Lotta Love), Mother Earth (Mr. Freedom), Corduroy (Motorhead), The Brand New Heavies (Mother's Tongue), Dennis Rollins (Make Your Move/ Badbone & Co.), Acoustic Ladyland (Last Chance Disco/ Camouflage), David Holmes (Oceans 11 +12), Quincy Jones (Soul Bossa Nova/ all te music he wrote for Michael Jackson), John Barry (James Bond Theme/Capsule in Space/Escape from Piz Gloria and Ski Chase), Astrud Gilberto (So Nice), Glen Miller (Blues In My Heart), Carmen McCrae (This Masquerade is Over), Artie Shaw (Grabtown Grapple/ Concerto For Clarinet/ Special Delivery Stomp/ Nightmare/ Mysterioso), Benny Goodman (Stealin' Apples), Uri Caine (Nymphomania), Bobby Timmons (I Remember Clifford with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers), Eddie Costa (Broadway with Tal Farlow and Vinnie Burke), Medeski, Martin & Wood (Orbits), The Bad Plus (Everywhere You Turn/ Scurry), Jaco Pastorious (Jaco Pastorious -what an album!), James Brown (Sex Machine etc.), Curtis Mayfield (Move On Up/ Pusherman), Al Green (Let's Stay Together/ Tired of Being Alone), Terry Callier (Love Theme from the Sparacus), Jakatta (My Vision feat. Seal), Seal (Killer/ Crazy), Stevie Wonder (Everything apart from the cheese), Marvin Gaye (Got to Give It Up/ The World is X rated/ Let's Get It On), Zero 7 (Simple Things), Moby (Porcelain), Groove Armada (Superstylin'/ At the River/ Edge Hill), Morcheeba (Who Can You Trust?), Portishead (Dummy/ Portishead), Propellorheads (Decks drums and rock and roll), Acen (Trip to the Moon), The Prodigy (The Weather Experience/ The Fat of the Land), Frank Zappa (Village of the Sun), Andrew McCormack (Juliett), Oscar Peterson (It Ain't Neccersarily So/ Girl Talk), George Shearing (Bernie's Tune /Lullaby of Birdland), Horace Silver (Calcutta Cutie/ Lonely Woman/ Sighin' and Cryin'/ Nutville), McCoy Tyner (Passion Dance), Lenny Tristano (Lennie's Pennies), Sonny Rollins (Saxophone Colossus), Liam Noble (In the Meantime), Seamus Blake (Perk), Arnie Somogyi (Improvokation), The Partisans (Sour Puss/ Max), Kurt Rosenwinkle (Heartcore/ Zhivago), John Scofield (Uberjam/ A Go Go/ Works For Me/ Up All Night), Weather Report (Heavy Weather), Gerard Presencer (Chasing Reality/ The Optimist/ Platypus), Bill Evans (Concerto For Billy The Kid/Beautiful Love -watch the video), Charles Mingus (Goodbye Porkpie Hat/ Fables of Faubus/ Nostalgia in Time Square), Oliver Nelson (Stolen Moments), Wayne Shorter (Speak No Evil), Monk (Evidence/ Well You Needn't/ Bemsha Swing/ Epistrophy), Trane (Love Supreme/ Giant Steps/ Blue Train), Miles (Kind of Blue/ Live Evil/ In a Silent Way/ Porgy & Bess/ Star People) Anita O'Day (Whisper Not written by Benny Golson), The Sound Stylistics (Play Deep Funk) and the list grows longer day by day!Record Label:
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Hi Ryan, Thanks for the comment :-) yeah... The charts change daily, I use them to find friends that like the same music as myself !! Some days Im on there and some days Im not !! It depends on the amount of visitors you get ... And there are mutiple charts within the Genre also.. Have a great weekend and cheers :-))
Hi Ryan, Thanks for the comment :-) yeah... The charts change daily, I use them to find friends that like the same music as myself !! Some days Im on there and some days Im not !! It depends on the amount of visitors you get ... And there are mutiple charts within the Genre also.. Have a great weekend and cheers :-))
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