The Carmen Milagro Band
Milagro
Pianist/Keyboardist
Involvement: August 2005 – April 2010
Carmen Milagro leads this heart-warming band featuring powerhouse musicians laying down gentle and luscious latin-oriented pop.
San Francisco Mime Troupe
San Francisco Mime Troupe
Pianist/Keyboardist/Trumpeter
Involvement: June – October 2006
Longtime San Francisco Institution of Socio-Political Insight and Humor
FLUT
FLUT
Keyboardist/Trumpeter
Involvement: August 2003 – October 2005
One of the best rock bands you’ll ever have seen, and NO GUITAR?!
Angel of Thorns
Angel of Thorns
Keyboardist
Involvement: July 2003 – August 2005
Baily Pendergrass III is a well-known Berkeley personality and also has this fabulous band that plays freaky B-Town funk! I miss laying it down with those guys.
Rococo Risque
Rococo Risque
Trumpeter, Keyboardist
Involvement: January 2005 – July 2005
This company is funny as hell and are not afraid to make fun of everybody, especially themselves. I was honored to be a part of the wildly successful “Liberties Taken” show.
Kugelplex
Kugelplex
Recording Engineer, Trumpeter
Involvement: Periodically, June 2004 and onward
Wonderful Klezmer band that will make you not want to sit down till long after they’re finished. I recorded their feature album “Ceci n’est pas klezmer”.
Entre Nos
Entre Nos
Pianist
Involvement: 2000
This was a wonderfully fun Brazilian band, led by three brothers, that was very popular in the Bay Area Brazilian community. Sometimes there were up to 14 people on stage!
The Shuhdaha Jazz Band
The Shuhdaha Jazz Band
Founder, Composer, Pianist, Trumpeter, Singer
Involvement: 1999 – 2000
Perhaps a prequel to Blue Bone Express, it was the first jazz band I formed and led, leaning on the inspiration I received after my first visit to New Orleans.
Orquesta D’Soul
Killing My Lobster
Killing My Lobster
Keyboardist, Trumpeter
Involvement: 1998
An extremely talented and vital collective of funny-people. It was non-stop laughter show after show when I was part of “Killing My Lobster Gets Some Action”.
Tomorrow is Ours
Tomorrow is Ours
Co-founder, Composer, Keyboardist
Involvement: 1994 – 1996, to be resurrected TBD
The Tomorrow is Ours Trio (first a duo with Kevin “K11″ Brunetti) was a highly innovative group attempting to cause a stir while Acid Jazz was hot in San Francisco. We were trying to put the acid in the “acid jazz”. To bad it never got anywhere. But we’ll surely be back together someday to explore the incredible energy that was unleashed.
