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ADDING MORE-n-MORE LINKS BUT STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
My musical tastes are extremely varied. They range from Rap to Classical to Ethnic.
On the performance side (if you could call it that), I play piano and keyboards. I started playing piano by ear at the age of four (and still do). My mother enrolled me in the Croton Music Conservatory. I took lessons for many, many years and stopped just before college. I've been evaluated as having perfect relative pitch and used it as much as possible (much to my teachers' distaste). After college I started buying synthesizer equipment and started playing in bands (both garage and bar bands). I now play in Big Beat Blues Band. It's weird. Although, I play in a band, playing for me is a very personal, private kind of thing. But... I have this equipment and I might as well use it!
The equipment I have:
- Korg O1/W Pro Music Workstation (I LOVE THIS INSTRUMENT!!!)
- Yahama YS220 Keyboard
- Korg NS5R Rack Mounted Synthesizer
- Peavey KB300 Keyboard Amp (with Black Widow Driver)
- Yamaha MS202 Monitors
- Peavey KB15 Monitor
- Mackie 1206 Mixer
- Alesis MidiVerb Effects Processor
- ADC Graphics Equalizer
- Sony MiniDisc Digital Audio Recorder
My musical favorites are:
- Ethnic
- Brazilian
- Tania Maria
- Classical
- Baroque
- Bach
- Mozart
- Romatic
- Beethoven
- Contemporary
- Barber
- Copland
- Prokovief
- Jazz
- Wynton Marsalis
- Miles Davis
- Dizzy Gillespie
- John Coltrane
- Branford Marsalis
- Marian McPartland
- Chick Corea
- Marcus Roberts
- Cyrus Chestnut
- John MacLaughlin
- Yellowjackets
- Blues
- Gospel
- Kirk Franklin ([Psalm 98:4, baby!])
- Rap (Samples by "DJ's House of Hip Hop)
- Schooly D (on Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast? Too Funny!)
- Public Enemy (My God! Is Chuck D Incredible, or What!)
- KRS-One (The Li-Po of Rap)
[listen: Step into a World (Rapture)] - Diggable Planets (Revival of the Beatnik'd Crew)
- Busta Rhymes (ROAR, ROAR, ROAR!)
- Wu-Tang Clan ("But can your Shaolin Style Beat My Wu-Tang Sword?" Givin' Sun Tzu a run for his money!)
[listen: Truimph] - Cypress Hill (I don't smoke but... they're still kewl)
- Rock
- Rush
- Stone Temple Pilots
- R-n-B
- Uh... I kind of gave up on it-- too mainstream.