Performer

 

Principal Keyboardist for all Tours 

Music Director: 1988-1990

Core band member for 16 years. 14 world wide tours. As music director, responsible for orchestra rehearsal, conducting and arranging as well as rehearsing of guest artists.

 

Pianist for Tours 

On call band member. Touring such places as Barbados, Trinidad, and multiple US venues.

Also hired for outside projects produced by Air Supply's singer and song writer, Graham Russell.

 

ANN-MARGRET: 2003-Present

Principle keyboardist/accompanist for touring

 

Extensive tours in support of Verve/GRP recordings of my own Smooth Jazz music. Appearances include: The Wave After Dark, Catalina Jazz Festival, and numerous performances nationwide. "Talk The Talk" off of KOMBO - The Big Blast CD reached the Top 10 for 4 weeks on the Adult Contemporary chart listed in Radio & Records Magazine. KOMBO-"Cookin' Out" CD in stores now. 

 

(CDs still available! - Contact Ron )

Extensive touring in support of personal compositions of contemporary jazz music. Highlight appearances have included: Playboy Jazz Festival, Orlando Jazz Festival, Coconut Grove Jazz Festival, Milwaukee Summerfest, Mt. Charleston Jazz Festival. International club appearances including Ronnie Scotts of London, and extensive clubwork nationwide. Los Angeles area clubs including: The Baked Potato, Le Café, Bon Appetit, The Coach House, At My Place, etc. Numerous college and high school clinics representing Yamaha. Numerous live radio performances and interviews worldwide including KKGO, The Wave and the BBC. Radio & Records Top 10 charted group.

 

Keyboardist for Touring.

3 world tours. Performances at numerous Jazz Festivals and clubs worldwide. Recorded 'Storm' and 'Live in San Francisco' CD's. 

 

While at North Texas State University, performed with and composed for 'The Zebras', a group featuring 5 keyboardists, Donald Byrd, Chuck Israels and in various Lab Bands and small groups. Performed or appeared with the Dallas Jazz Orchestra, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, George Wein, Slide Hampton, Irakere, Stanley Clarke, Thomas Dolby, The Pointer Sisters, Stevie Wonder, Bette Midler, David Foster and numerous other musical luminaries. 

 

 

1991 'Barry Manilow Greatest Hits Live' Arista Records

1990 'Barry Manilow Live On Broadway' Arista Records

1987 'Swing Street' Arista Records

1985 'Manilow' RCA Records

 

1983 'Live From San Francisco' Palo Alto Records

1982 'Storm' Nautilus Records

 

1992 'Drive Down the Sun' Mesa/Bluemoon Records

1990 'The Paper and the Dog' Mesa/Bluemoon Records

1989 'That We Do Know' Denon/A&M Records

1988 'Young People With Faces' Denon/A&M Records

1987 'Say Uncle' Optimism Records

1986 'Money's No Object' Nova/En Pointe Records

 

1999 'The Big Blast' Verve/GRP Records

2001 'Cookin' Out' Verve/GRP Records

 

Nuevo Trova' Universiry of Florida student film

'Krumbach's Error' AFI film directed by Brian Root

'Slice & Dice' directed by Rod McCall screened at Sundance
 

 

Numerous appearances with Barry Manilow on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson/Jay Leno, Late Night with David letterman, Solid Gold, Arsenio Hall, Suzanne Somers Show, Donny and Marie (the newer one) Regis and Kathie Lee. ' Barry Manilow Live on Broadway' for Showtime, 'Manilow Country' for TNN, 'Barry Manilow' on Direct TV. 'Live By Request' on A&E. In addition to world wide video and DVD releases.

 

 

Winner of The National Yamaha Organ Festival, Jr., Sr. Divisions. (Hey, I got to go to Japan!) 

Various goofy piano competitions.

SCUBA Rescue certified.

 

Composing, Arranging, Orchestrating, Synthesizer programming, Conducting, Teaching, Soloing, Sight-reading, Audio Engineering, Sound Design.

 

North Texas State University, Denton, TX. Jazz Piano/Piano Pedagogy Major with a Minor in classical organ. 1979-1981.

Dick Grove School of Music, Van Nuys, CA. Composing and Arranging program. 1984.