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Jack Maeby
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Jack Maeby grew up in upstate New York, where he began playing music professionally
while in high school. At age 19, he signed a recording contract with a St. Louis-based
record label. After a few years of touring the South and Midwest opening for acts such as
The Doobie Brothers, Rod Stewart and Parliament/Funkadelic, Jack returned to Albany to
back vocalist David Ward, a veteran of the King Curtis band. Through Ward, he was
introduced to the late King Curtis' musical family, which included R&B legends Cornell
DuPree, Gordon Edwards and Bernard Purdie.
Moving to New York City in the 1980's, Maeby built a career playing piano and organ
behind acts such as Etta James, Otis Rush and Lowell Fulson. He was a keyboardist with
the Uptown Horns band, accompanying Aaron Neville, Buster Poindexter and many other
name attractions on their New York appearances. Jack was a regular member of NY Jazz
and Blues Society honoree Danny Draher's band, played regularly with avant-garde jazz
artist Marc Ribot and toured Europe with guitarist Joe Taino.
During his time in New York, Maeby was composer and musical director for a number of
Off Broadway theater productions at La Mama Etc., CSC Repertory and the McCarter
Theater. He began composing for film and television, garnering a Clio nomination for
Original Music Scoring. His motion picture and TV work includes the films Scandal,
Disney's The Arabian Night and How the Toys Saved Christmas and the long-running
children's series, The World of David the Gnome.
After re-locating to Los Angeles in the mid-90's, Jack began writing fiction while touring
Japan as musical director for a vocal group. He studied creative writing under novelist
Claire Carmichael (aka Claire McNab), and was the recipient of a 2005 James Kirkwood
Literary Award.