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Will began playing the bass guitar in the sixth grade and has added additional instruments along the way to culminate the making of this project. He began to manage his own band in the 9th grade and has been a bandleader ever since. His "Rendezvous Band" played private events, restaurants and clubs in the Houston area for 15 years. He employed many musicians from various genres to form a sound that satisfied a multitude of listeners.
Will also ventured into major concert promotions within the southwest region. This enabled him to explore other artists and to gain a better understanding of how business is conducted both on and off the road. He was also able to meet and coordinated the stage riders for Kenny G, Bob James, Kirk Whalum and Rodney Franklin. The wealth of experience acquired by being around artists of this calibur is likely to surface when you get to see Will perform live in concert.
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Cody Carpenter Releases Force Of Nature on Blue Canoe Records
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Karen Frieske
Cody Carpenter is at it again with his sophomore release Force Of Nature on Blue Canoe Records. This stunning instrumental prog-rock, fusion effort is the follow-up to the outstanding Interdependence (2018). This prolific songwriter and keyboardist has teamed up with some old friends and new to bring the listener into the prog glory days of Yes and Emerson Lake & Palmer. Cody Carpenter is the son of Adrienne Barbeau, a star of film, television and the Broadway stage, and legendary ...
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Hal Blaine on Karen Carpenter
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Maybe it's because I came of age in the early '70s. Or because my parents had a “burnt orange" car. Or that I had an apple-green Schwinn Stingray. Or that our home was painted redwood. Whatever the reason, the Carpenters always take me back to a time when everything was changing, and not always for the better. But through it all—the striped bellbottoms, the tough kids in the suburbs and the gloomy news—Karen Carpenter's voice made everything sound just right. ...
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Vibrant Historical Reconstruction with Brian Carpenter's "Hothouse Stomp"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Early jazz was not a matter of three or four bands with monster soloists playing in a vacuum. Not every band had the over- powering playing of Armstrong, Oliver or Keppard gracing the front line. And jazz as it flowered was not merely a showcase for soloists. There was the hot two-beat swing, the arrangements, the fact that this was music for people to dig live, not some living museum of early style. That perhaps is obvious, but histories of ...
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Cameron Carpenter's Organic Cool
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Michael Ricci
Cameron Carpenter brings his organist showmanship to L.A.'s First Congregational Church on Sunday
The player with a flair for dramatic performances and glitzy outfits gives a prelude to his Disney Hall debut next season. The pipe organ's massive physical dimensions and its potential for earthshaking sonorities make it an instrument like no other. But those who play its multiple keyboards, pump its many pedals and pull its multifarious stops are another matter. Popularly regarded as repressed or freakish (think Simon ...
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Gig Advice from Dave Carpenter
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Goings on @ Urban Nerds
I was fortunate enough to study with the great bassist Dave Carpenter (Allan Holdsworth, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Boz Skaggs, Peter Erskine) for about a year-and-a-half while I was attending CalArts and I learned a lot from him about music and professionalism. I remember that he had some great, simple advice about the requirements for taking a gig.Dave's simple criteria is as follows: Who's it with? You don't want to turn down a gig to play with a ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Carpenter
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Carpenter's birthday today!
JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Dave Carpenter
Bassist Dave Carpenter has appeared on nearly a hundred recordings in the eight years since coming to Los Angeles. And, he has dozens of television and film themes to his recording credit, as well as soundtracks and countless jingles... more
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Dave Carpenter L.A.Times Obituary
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Michael Ricci
Dave Carpenter, 48; jazz bassist co-founded Santa Monica-based Lounge Art Ensemble
Dave Carpenter, a jazz bassist who worked with scores of legendary names, appeared on more than 200 recordings and was a founding member of the Lounge Art Ensemble, died June 23 of a heart attack at his home in Burbank. He was 48. Most recently, Carpenter had been playing in a trio with pianist Alan Pasqua and drummer Peter Erskine and had just released an album called “Standards." A ...
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Passings: Dave Carpenter, Ronnie Matthews
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Last week, jazz lost two journeyman artists valued for their dependability, versatility and swing. On the west coast, bassist Dave Carpenter died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of forty-eight. Most recently, Carpenter had been in drummer Peter Erskine's trio, which also included pianist Alan Pasqua. A veteran of the Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson and Bill Holman big bands, he also worked with Bill Perkins, Jack Nimitz, Al Jarreau, Herb Geller, Bill Cunliffe, Jan Lundgren, Terry Gibbs, ...
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Bassist Dave Carpenter, Nov. 4, 1959 ~ June 24, 2008
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Dave Carpenter Respected Bassist Dies at 48
Bassist Dave Carpenter appeared on over two hundred recordings, and had dozens of television, film theme and soundtracks to his recording credit. He worked with major artists including Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Mike Stern, Allan Holdsworth, Sadao Watanabe, Alan Pasqua and Herbie Hancock. He appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras plus Tanglewood and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras. Carpenter was a founding member of ...
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