Steve baxter a multitalented trombonist and composer, first started out in Houston Texas, with the award winning high shool jazz ensemble "Forest Brook", and soon after off to Howard University, where music became focus, performing with local bands, recording with Howard U jazz ensemble, blowing tribute's to Tholonius Monk, that featured: Grady Tate(drums), Charlie Rouse(sax) Wallace Roney(trumpet), Curtist Fuller(trombone) . Soon after went on the road with Ray Charles, Gladys Knight and the Pips, O'JAYS, Johnny 'guitar' Watson, Temptation, O'jay's, Four Tops. Then started performing and recording with the likes of Horace Silver, Gerald Wilson, Cameo , Gap Band, 13 Cats, Nothing but the funk, Sing Like Talking, Chikuzen Sato, Hiromi Iwasaki, Beck, Polyester Players, AL McKay Allstars, Prince, Bobby Matos, Babyface, The Crusaders, Barry Manilow, Michael Bolton, Eric Benet, Sheila E, Macy Gray , Ziggy Marley, "The Crusaders live in Japan 2003" Hidden Beach Unwrapped volume 1 -3, Snoopdog, Tupac, Patches Stewart, The Wayne Brady Show, American Idol, Soundtracks-(Shaft, The Ladies Man, Showtime, 101 Dalmatian, Dysfunktional Family, Italian Job, Drumlines) and many others. Now for the first time, the 'big payback' as some call him, has his first solo project, that feature's: Paul Jackson jr, Reggie Hamilton, Eddie M, Al Mckay, Brion James, Lamont Van Hook, Mica Fisher, Jullie Delgado, Donald Hayes, Dino Soldo, Andre Robertson, Rickey Minor, Land Richards, Harry Kim, Ernie Fields jr. Richard Garcia, Herman Jackson, Wayne Linsey and many more. PICK THIS ONE UP!!
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