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one-man-roots-blues-band

with guitar, vocal, kazoo, hihat and bassdrum going simultaneously, playing selections of early blues, jug band tunes, gospel classics, instrumental stomps, romps, jumps, and rags, old country music, jazz, tin pan alley tunes, folk songs, novelty tunes, along with the occasional bits of sousa marches, classical themes, and film music blended into original arrangements and improvisations.

based in los angeles and currently roaming the california coast performing music, collecting musical instruments, photographing the pacific ocean, and planning cheap, sensible meals.

guitar and kazoo
with Dan Hicks' x-mas jug band 3 years

vibraphonist/rhodes keyboardist
tour with greyboy allstar saxophonist
karl denson's tiny universe

original member/guitarist 5 years
with san francisco chanteuse Lavay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

performs and records as jazz vibraphonist
with san francisco funk/latinjazz/dub/grooveband Vinyl including their latest release "all the way live" recorded at the great american music hall in san francisco (with bernie worrell, terry haggerty, more...)

guest-host/R Duck show FRSC underground radio santa cruz



















CD's available:






"american guitar" CD



1. Stompin' Next Door
2. Careless Love
3. Trouble in Mind
4. Take This Hammer
5. Rompin' in the Countryside
6. Battle of Jericho
7. Polly Wolly Doodle
8. Nocturne (strange Interlude)
9. Wander From My Home
10. Kazoo Stomp
11. Tobacco Rag
12. Pavanne (summer moon)
13. I Am a Pilgrim
14. This Train (live california bootleg)
15. Stealin' (live california bootleg)
16. Cocaine Habit (live california bootleg)
17. Blue Spirit Blues (live california bootleg)



cd "rizorkestra! live in los angeles 2004" solo show featuring:

oud
(11-stringed fretless turkish lute with one ankle bell)

balafon
(19-key west african xylophone with two ankle bells)

one-man-roots-blues-band
(guitar/vocal/kazoo/hihat/bassdrum)

two memphis jugband tunes from 1920's
(one-man-roots-blues-band with guests
on harmony vocals and fiddle)

two piano pieces
(one rubato lyrical jazz rhapsody,
one new orleans barrellhouse "rhumboogie")

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