Album Notes

rizorkestra

composer
performer
instrument collector
musicologist

*guitar and kazoo
with dan hicks' x-mas jug band 3 years

*vibraphonist/rhodes keyboard
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 likkers

*performs and records on jazz vibraphone
with san francisco afro-cuban/latinjazz/dub/grooveband "vinyl" including their latest release "all the way live" recorded live at the great american music hall in san francisco (with bernie worrell, terry haggerty, more...)

*jazz vibraphone with hollywood combo

*jazz vibraphone and latin percussion with the torchlighters


"rizorkestra! live in los angeles 2004"
live performance featuring:

oud
(11-stringed fretless turkish lute/ one anke bell)

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

guitar
(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 vocalists and fiddle)

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

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