Wayward Monks
© Copyright-Dan Zalles
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Wayward Monks play a groundbreaking mixture of instrumental jazz, new age, and progressive rock. People who miss the golden fusion days of Miles Davis, Santana, Jeff Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Grateful Dead, and Weather Report are crazy about them, download mass quantities of mp3's from their web site (613 hits, 78 downloads in three months), and drive many miles to see them perform around the Bay Area. Their 75-minute CD of 13 of their songs was recorded at OTR Studio, the birthplace of classic recordings by Max Roach, George Winston, and other great instrumentalists.
But why name your band after medieval Buddhist monks who strayed from the "correct" path to enlightenment and were reincarnated as goats. Says lead guitarist, trumpet player, and lead writer Dan Zalles, "we wanted a name that symbolized our attitude toward our music and why we play the way we do. We take inspiration from our musical influences, then throw curve balls at them, with odd meters and jams that sound dif
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