Selected Recent Credits :
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Keyboardist for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, now in its 14th
season on NBC.
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Produced
an album for multi-talented singer-songwriter Max Gabriel
for sonaBLAST! records. Max's myspace page
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Musical Director and Keyboardist for Music Player Live's tribute to
Les Paul concert at Roseland, NYC. Featured
artists included Adrian Belew, Robin Ford, Larry Carlton, Lisa Loeb
and others.
Scored "All Bookies Wear Speedos" written and directed by Jack Bank for Jacked Productions. Premier November, 2005 at NY Independent Film and Video Festival.
AT 2006 PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL, JAN 2006
- Scored "Vito After" produced and directed by Maria Pusateri, premiere at Chicago Indiefest
www.vitoafter.com.
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Naked
Movies by The Coalition released on Midlantic Ricords
has received great reviews in Rolling Stone, Keyboard, Bass Player
and Downbeat + many online reviews. For more info go to the official band website:
www.coalitiongroove.com
THE BAND: THE
CD:
- Scored "16W" directed by Gerald Slota, produced by Elena Spiotta and Fred Duignan, premiered at Woodstock Film Festival. Official 16W website:
www.16W-pilot.com
- Produced and composed music for indie film "Messengers" directed by Philip
Farha, produced by Alvaro Donado and Meryl Emmerton.
Messengers at IMDB.com
- Scoring award-winning NYC indy director/writer Joseph Moran's new feature film "Borrowed Lives."
www.mediabelow14th.com/film
- Also for Below 14th Street: scored short films "Where Babies Come From," "A Perspective," "The F Word," "Dumb Blondes," "Killer," "Men," "White Trash Revisited," "3 Yentas," and "Jagermiester" as part of Joseph Moran's continuing "JokesDotCom" series. These critically acclaimed shorts have been featured at several film festivals and are part of an ongoing collaboration with this up and coming filmmaker.
- Musical director and keyboardist for three tracks the Grammy-nominated release "Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan" on Sony/Columbia. Produced by Joel Moss, executive producer Jeffery Gaskill, this cd features Dylan and many great gospel performers including The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Dottie Peoples, Tramaine Hawkins, Aaron Neville and Shirley Ceasar.
Reviews
- Performed on and co-wrote for Mary Fahl's critically acclaimed release "The Other Side of Time".
Review || www.sony.com.
- Music supervisor and consultant for "The Broken Wings of Elijah Footfalls" by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel. This beautiful 45 minute film was selected for screening and received second place at the 2002 IFP Conference in NYC.
- Scored "The Biggest Mess" starring Mark Flores, David Bimbi, Bradley Thomason, directed by Joseph Moran, produced by Jeffery Parsons.
- The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Randall Fleischer conductor, commissioned an original orchestral work.
- Performed 5 shows with rock legend Bruce Springsteen and the Max Weinberg 7; the sold-out holiday shows benefitted local Asbury Park, NJ charities and featured guest artists Elvis Costello, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa, and Bruce Hornsby.
- Scored indie director/writer Laura Levine's new feature film "Digging
for Dutch," a feature length documentary about the search for the infamous
gangster Dutch Schultz's missing millions, supposedly buried deep in the
Catskills. (Hokey Pictures, premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival 2001
and featured at the Endinburg Film Festival August 2002). This film received
the New York City Film Project's Torchlight Award for Best Feature and is
currently seeking nationwide release.
Visit the Digging For Dutch website:
www.diggingfordutch.com
Digging For Dutch @ IMDB.com
- Scored and conducted the 13 piece horn arrangement for pop icon Ricky Martin's single "She Bangs," worked with producer Walter Afanasieff, songwriters Desmond Childs, Robi Rosa and Walter A.
Gig Magazine - "Deconstructing A Hit" (graphic)
Gig Magazine - "Deconstructing A Hit" (text)
- Concert and festival appearances on both coasts with Chicago blues greats Son Seals and Hubert Sumlin, vocalist Phoebe Snow, and Levon Helm.
- Aspen Music Ensemble commissioned and premiered his 15 minute work "Club Soda (with a twist)" as part of his role as featured guest composer.
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