Stratton Doyle

Bio:

Since I can remember I've been in love with music and have been singing for family and friends. I was brought up with everything from Glenn Miller to James Brown and everything in between. From all of the horn band exposure, I decided to pick up the saxophone when I was about 11. I took all of that horn band music that I had listened to for so many years and sat down with my sax and a radio and started learning. I took all of those influences and started to develop my sound. When I was in high school I was exposed to more modern jazz, players like Michael Brecker, Chic Corea, Herbie Hancock, etc. and began learning that style. At the age of 17 I went to my first bar and sat in with the jazz trio there and landed my first gig with a funk jam band called Lingus. After doing a few shows with them, I began hitting the bars every weekend looking for bands to play with. I had my first blues band experience with some now very good friends of mine in a band called X-It 43. I started playing more and more gigs with them and other bands and fell in love with performing. After playing with them for a while, I met the illustrious Mike Zito, a rockin blues and r&b player from St. Louis, MO and started playing with him. I started touring all over the country with Mike and decided that was what I was going to do for a living. After playing with Mike for a while, I got picked up by Hamilton Loomis, a funky blues guitar player from Galveston, TX and a protege of Bo Diddley. I'm currently playing with Hamilton Loomis, touring all over the country and all over the world. Please check out our calendar here or at hamiltonloomis.com for news and pictures and to find out when we're coming to a town near you!

Everyone, please go and check out this website! www.tenormadness.com My good friends Randy and Shirley Jones own a saxophone shop in Waterloo, IA called Tenor Madness with excellent horns, and an excellent repair shop! They've worked on horns owned by legends such as Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, and many many more! They are great people and if you're a saxophone player, they are definitely people you need to get in touch with for ALL of your saxophone needs!

This video is Me rockin with Hamilton Loomis, Jamie Little (drums) and Roger Innis (bass) in Oxford, England. The tune is called Chicken Fat.





This is the same night in Oxford... This is "What It Is."





Again, the same night... This is "Slow Lover."

Member Since:

September 02, 2006

Members:

Stratton Doyle

Influences:

Michael Brecker, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, David Sandborn, Chris Potter, Bob Berg, Joshua Redman, and too many others that I can't think of right now...

Sounds Like:

This is a cool little thing we play from time to time.. Our bass player Kent plays a solo bass tune he wrote then we go into Michael Jackson's "Man In the Mirror" and we all join in and rock it out. This is at Blind Willie's in Atlanta, GA. Enjoy!





This is an older video that I just found of Me playin with Mike Zito at jack Daniel's in Lake Charles. The song is called Lovering.


Lovering solo at JD's



So we did this commercial in Grand Junction, CO for a Ford dealership... Hamilton's big red van has over 455,000 miles on it... I think it's up to 468,000 right now... We're plannin a big party if/when we make it to 500,000!!!





Just a little update, the van is now up to 516,000 miles and still counting!

Record Label:

Unsigned