Album Notes

rizorkestra
one-man-roots-blues-band

"...keepin' music down-home for y'all..."

cd contains (1-13) studio tracks recorded in santa cruz,
and four bonus live california bootleg tracks (14-17)

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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...)

jazz vibraphone with the hollywood combo

jazz vibraphone and latin percussion with the torchlighters

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limited edition advance copy DVD's "rough cut live 2005" also available