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Will Cafaro
Jazz / Minimalist / Experimental

Doubling Bassist For All Styles,Composer,Educator



Detroit, Michigan
United States

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Last Login:  1/7/2010
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Member Since8/11/2007
Band MembersThe Open Door / Olivia Meyer - Soprano Sax / Lee Dynes - Guitar / Alan Benzie - Piano / Dan Drohan - Drums ---- Mystery Hill / Lucas Ellman - Tenor / Kenji Herbert - Guitar / Alan Benzie - Piano / Dan Drohan - Drums ---- Sounds of a Rainy Night / Alan Benzie-Piano / Dan Drohan-Drums ---- Visions (Tom Kain) / Alex Raderman - Drums / Tom Kain - Piano My Foolish Heart (Lorenz/Hart) / Dan Palmere - Voice / Lucas Ellman - Tenor / Angelo Spampinato - Drums ---- JuJu (Shorter) / Callum McKenzie - Alto / Christian Li - Piano / Dan Drohan - Drums / All compositions by Will Cafaro except where noted *
InfluencesBill Evans, Adam Rogers, Chris Potter, Craig Taborn, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Dave Holland, Brad Mehldau, Maria Schneider, Julian Lage, Mark Turner, Kenny Wheeler, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven, Nick Drake, Charlie Parker, Thomasz Stanko, Enrico Rava, Charlie Haden, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bill Stewart, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Larry Grenadier, Scott Colley, Paul Chambers
Sounds LikeHopefully myself
Record LabelWOULD BE NICE
Type of LabelUnsigned


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Jan 7 2010 8:00P
Malcha Marg Market New Dheli
Jan 8 2010 8:00P
American Center New Dheli
Jan 10 2010 8:00P
Blue Frog Mumbai

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   About Will Cafaro
Will Cafaro is a doubling bassist and composer from Commerce, Michigan a small suburb of Detroit. Will Discovered the electric bass in 8th grade and the upright in High School. Under the guidance of instructors Sam Trapchack,Rodney Whitaker and Bob Degeorge Will was awarded the Louis Armstrong High School Jazz Award, A Nomination for the National High School Band Award, a spot in the Detroit Civic Jazz Ensembles as well as Scholarship to Berklee College of Music where he now studies as a dual major in Performance and Jazz Composition and has so far been fortunate to study and perform with great players like Benny Golson, Robin Eubanks, Rodney Whitaker, Greg Hopkins, Mark Whitfield, Andrew Strong, Greg Osby, Ed Saindon, Julian Lage, Lin Biviano, Oscar Stagnaro, Lincoln Goines, Bruce Gertz, Wes Anderson, Derrick Gardener, Bruno Raberg, John Lockwood and Eric Alexander. Will is available for private lessons in upright and electric bass as well as jazz and classical theory, improvisation, composition and arranging.Will is also a bassist for hire for other styles as well. He just finished up his first international tour with Horizon Music recording artist "Tucker Jameson and the Hot Mugs" and is currently gigging and recording around the Boston area with multiple groups such as the blues-rock band Gypsy Cab, singer songwriter groups Rachel Borovik, Jeff Adamczyk Band, The Alchemists and finger style acoustic artist Jay Gagon   I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

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Will Cafaro has 347 friends.
 Gypsy Cab 


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 Ryan Toll 


 Rachel Borovik 


 Wayne Shorter Tribute 


 Blake Powell 


 derek 


 Sam Trapchak 


 Lincoln Goines 


 Rafael 


 Dave Holland 


 Mark Hadley 


 Lucas Ellman 


 Clay Lyons 


 Dan Drohan 


 lee 


 Tom Kain 


 Tin Soldier 


 Just Add Water Trio 


 Nate Wong 


 Zach Tenorio 


 Chuck Newsome Music 


 Kenny Wheeler 


 Dustin Olyan 


 Dana Osterling 


 Bruno Råberg 


 VOID 


 Wayne Shorter 


 Julian Lage 


 DanZell 


 tarun balani 


 Tara Dougherty 


 Alex Mojaverian 


 Aditya Balani 


 Olivia Meyer 


 Stone Fish 


 Aaron Bahr 


 Kevin Friedman 


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Britney Spears

Britney Spears



Dec 2 2009 7:12 PM

Good Morning,

Give you flowers and "HI" to you!



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Chasing Kings

Chasing Kings



Nov 11 2009 8:20 PM

Thanks for adding us.  Hope all is well.
Chasing Kings
Stanislav Zaslavsky

Stanislav Zaslavsky



Nov 5 2009 2:47 PM


Tara Dougherty

Tara Dougherty



Jun 25 2009 12:47 AM

yo i'm liking visions a lot
not a hipster tune at all :)
Christopher Putt

Christopher Putt



Jun 22 2009 6:38 AM

how've you been brother? what a cup game right ha. hope things are good we're about to hit the road for the tin soldier trip it should be fun. oh and i listened to the stuff you have up now. and is sweet i dig it.
Apache Stone

Apache Stone



May 5 2009 11:35 PM

Thanks for the add! Rock on!
The Freematics (NEW SONGS UP NOW!)

The Freematics (NEW SONGS UP NOW!)



Apr 5 2009 2:14 AM






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The Freematics (NEW SONGS UP NOW!)

The Freematics (NEW SONGS UP NOW!)



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Jerry LeDuff Congas & Percussion

Jerry LeDuff Congas & Percussion



Mar 20 2009 9:06 PM

Thanks for the friendship and sharing your creativity! Jerry





Dave the Greek

Dave the Greek



Dec 17 2008 2:46 PM

Hey, Will. Tracks sound good, man. If you're coming home on break, give me a shout and maybe we can lay down a few.
Florenza Campos

Florenza Campos



Nov 25 2008 12:31 AM

sounding gooood ;)
The Audacity

The Audacity



Oct 30 2008 2:11 AM

Mix is done.
Come and check out what you sound like!
Christopher

Christopher



Oct 16 2008 5:24 AM

look who is on myspace
Saint Rebel

Saint Rebel



Oct 7 2008 11:58 PM

I heard the new song you added. It sounds great. Just thought I'd say "hi" and let you know I gave it a listen.
joe

joe



Jul 18 2008 3:26 PM

my music (Danzell on drums, Dave on bass and guitar):

www. myspace. com/djowarrenpeace
Giancarlo de Trizio

Giancarlo de Trizio



Jun 30 2008 4:41 AM

Whassup Will? How you doing?

I'll see you in the fall!
Byeeeeeeeeeeeee and...

visit my space at www.myspace.com/giancarlodetrizio
monica mae

monica mae



Jun 9 2008 2:13 PM

holla back at a sista!!
Tom Kain

Tom Kain



May 4 2008 1:20 AM

Hey man, is that the first or the second take you posted?
Michele Who?

Michele Peterson Hobbs



Nov 13 2007 2:53 AM

Hey, how's school?
King B. & Special Guests

King B. & Special Guests



Nov 4 2007 12:43 AM

VOID

VOID



Oct 12 2007 8:22 PM

Cheers for the add Will, and thanks for checkin out our music! -troy
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