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Thank's for checking out my profile! Here's a bit of info about myself and my work:
I was born in Omaha Nebraska, I started piano lessons at the urging of my mom who was a piano teacher herself. I soon discovered that the guitar was my passion and began a musical journey that has led me here to Los Angeles. I attended college at North Texas State University, there, I majored in Jazz Guitar performance and met a lot of amazing musicians and gigged, recorded, and jammed all the time. I was working with Jazz artist Joe McBride when I met Richard Smith, head of the Studio Jazz guitar department at USC. He hooked me up with a scholarship and part time teaching position in the guitar department. I recieved my Masters degree and have been a teacher there ever since. Music has taken me to many intersting corners of the world and put me in contact with amazing people and cultures.
I am primarily a guitarist that writes and produces music for a variety of different projects including: film scores, t.v. cues, and artist develop/collaboration.Credits Include: CBS, Gear (Theme Song) Ed, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, Felicity, 48 Hours, MTV, etc.
Some noteworthy projects to date include Modereko (Verve aand Harmonized Records), a jazz and improvisation based jam band that I founded with John Molo nad Bobby Read. We played with Keller Williams, Garage Mahal, The Wailers, Jemima Puddleduck, to name a few. I work and write with R&B artist Jon B. we have a rock band called "The Brothers Buck." I also played with him in Jack Herrera. I put out a Christmas album called "The 25th of December" that should be available this year on line.
Other recent projects include: There There (www.myspace.com/theretheremusic), Writing the film score to the feature film "Angels with Angles" (www.imdb.com/title/tt0179803), and numerous collaborations with the following artists:Bethany Sharayah,Marylin and Allen Bergman,Shelly Berg, Trisha Battani, John Torres,Jimmy Haslip, Michelle Armstrong, Dave Samartin, Stephanie Carlisi, The missing Linx, Banyan, Laura Karpman, J'Nae, James Torme,The Animators, Drew K, Kurrupt, Lindsay Tomasic and others.
I also write/compose for the following music libraries: Killer Tracks, Five Alarm Music, and Frameworks (www.frameworksmusic.com) As a guitarist I have worked every type of gig imaginable,original music, cover gigs, solo guitar etc. I wrote in instructional book called Blues Lessons Volume 3, National Guitar Workshop and Alfred Publishing
CONTACT ME BY EMAILING ME AT KOBZA@USC.EDU
do you know any good drummers or guitarists in the LA/OC area looking for a new gig? If so, we might be their next stop! We have two openings... please spread the word.
ETHNIC GROOVES, FUNKY STUFF, WATHEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT. A HUGE CALF SKIN BASS DRUM THAT CAN'T LIE, VIRTUOSO GUITARS, ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES COMING OUT OF THAT HAMMOND B3 MONSTER. REAL MUSICIANS RAISED ON A STEADY DIET OF CHICAGO BLUES, MEMPHIS ROCKABILLY, STAX SOUL & KINGSTON DUB PLAYING THE KINDA MUSIC WHERE EVERY NOTE COUNTS. FANTASTIC DRUM SOLOS, ABSTRACT MOODS, NASHVILLE GUITAR LICKS, A TOUCH OF BE-BOP. NEW ORLEANS GUMBO, DEEP BASS, BOOM-BOOM-BOOM LOVERS, A SWAMPY BLUESY BACKGROUND, ORGANIC SOUNDS>THE ELECTROROOTS PROJECT by Fabian Jolivet - Featuring Rick Holmstrom, Skip Edwards, Freddy Koella, Deacon Jones, T. Nakamura, Pete Mazich, Jah Faith, Tony Martin, Oliver Steinberg, Geoffrey 'Mouth' Grange, Carmelo Luggeri, Botafogo, Ciro Fogliata, Michael Tempo, etc...
hey tim, haven't talked to you for a while. how's LA? write back soon. I'd like to hear about how it's going there. Life's busy here, with three sports going on at the same time as high school academics. We just had our five-day weekend for diwali, and had fun setting off a bunch of fireworks, but that's over now, and it's back to work. Me and my dad are going skiing in switzerland this thanksgiving break, which is coming up in less than a month away now. hi from the rest of the family, write back soon. Jake
Awesome job Friday night on the Joe's Garage gig. I hope you have more opportunities to sub with the band. You and Ken both sounded fantastic. It was great to see you. If you are ever beachside, look me up and let's play some music.
My man!!! The Jud conway record is finally finished! I put a couple tunes up on my myspace; check them out! You sound fantastic, man. You really nailed it on this record, and were such a huge part of the whole sound. I really appreciate all the incredible work! I'll send a few copies out when we get them back from press. Tell all the LA Cats I said hello! Hope we get to jam soon. Peace, -DC in DC
So glad that you were in town to be a part of this project! You did an amazing job! We have a couple of clips up on our page, if you're interested in listening to some of the finished project.
Hey Tim, So great to play with you the other night! Really looking forward to the next one. I forgot to tell you, my son's bands are on my friends page - Knife Jockeys is his orig band, Big Moves he plays drums in. See you in a couple weeks.....
cool! its sounds great! yeah, im tryin to play guitar as much as i can, but i get so much homework now, i cant play that much. me and my friends are tryin to form a band, but we just need a singer now. im not very happy about the nebraska, sc game, but me and my dad got to go watch it on tv: 5 30 in the morning. We were pretty disappointed though.
Tim, Moon and I did some background vocals tonight on Ashly's stuff, that guitar solo still kills me, its just so great in all the right ways...we must do some more stuff!
