Greg Rahn

While producing audio for the video game industry over a 25-year period, Bay Area keyboardist-composer Greg Rahn maintained a steady diet of playing live gigs as a side hustle. The lucrative gaming industry allowed him to raise his family, but the side hustle gigs kept him connected to the magic of making music with other musicians, the spontaneity of playing before live audiences and taking his honed keyboard chops out for spin in a dizzying array of styles and genres that are evident on this album.

Having been a fan of ‘70s fusion bands like Return To Forever, Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra while also absorbing the lessons of influential keyboardist-composers like Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul and Jan Hammer, Rahn  played “anything with a keyboard” in his formative years. Following a move to the Bay Area in 1981, he began freelancing and worked across many different genres from soul (singer Rosie Gaines who later went on to play with Prince) to Latin jazz (with guitarist Ray Obiedo and percussionist-bandleader Pete Escovedo) to rock (Ronnie Montrose) and blues (Chris Cain). Rahn also recently appeared as musical director for the Big Blues Bash! celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Concord Pavilion, where he backed such artists as Elvin Bishop, Tommy Castro, Ana Popovic and DK Harrell.

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