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James Singleton
instrument: Upright Bass
Link: www.jamessingletonmusic.com Composer, bassist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist James Singleton has made his home in New Orleans since 1977. he has free-lanced with many great New Orleans artists and many others including James Booker, Professor Longhair, Astral Project, James Black, Aarron Neville, Joe Henderson, Eddie Harris, Clark Terry, Lightnin' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, John Scofield, Dave Liebman, Skerik, Mike Dillon, Natalie Cole, Ellis, Branford, Wynton, and Jason Marsalis, Anders Osborne, Harry Connick jr, Jon Cleary, John Mooney,Teddy Riley, and many others. In 1995 he formed 3NOW4 to collaborate with pedal-steel guitar genius Dave Easley and feature original compositions, improvisations, and little-known repetoire from a variety of styles. In 2005 he started the James Singleton String Quartet to play his music in an all acoustic string setting. an electric version is coming. The latest band is simply the James Singleton quartet; it is a powerhouse combination with pianist Larry Sieberth, saxophonist Scott Bourgeois, and multi-instrument virtuoso Mike Dillon. |
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Matt Perrine
instrument: Upright Bass, Sousaphone
Link: www.myspace.com/mattperrine Born and raised in Sacramento CA, Matt Perrine began his musical career, modestly enough, at the age of 10, playing trombone in his school band and quickly developed landing gigs with Diane Shure, Joey Calderoza, and the Artie Shaw Orchestr. Matt's move to New Orleans was an obvious choice, steeped as he was in jazz. His versatility on sousaphone, electric and acoustic basses opened doors into varied genres allowing him to perform and record with an amazing lineup of artists including Aaron Neville, Kermit Ruffins, Stanton Moore, Ellis and Branford Marsalis, Bonerama, Charlie Hunter, OK-Go, The Indigo Girls, Pete Fountain, Better Than Ezra, Bruce Hornsby, Howard Johnson's tuba ensemble Gravity, and The Johnny Vidacovich Trio. In 1995 he co-founded brass band The New Orleans Nightcrawlers, as tubist, chief composer and arranger, as well as producer of their eponymous recording. In 2007, Matt released his first solo record, Sunflower City, a celebration of the connection between New Orleans music and the music of the Caribbean. Currently, Matt plays sousaphone with the New Orleans based band, the Tin Men, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, the Hot Club of New Orleans, Paul Sanchez's Rolling Road Show and his own group, Sunflower City. |
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Doug Belote
instrument: Drums
Link: www.dougbelote.com South Louisiana native Doug Belote grew up in Cajun country, immersed in the sounds of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, Cajun, zydeco, Dixieland, gospel, Latin and New Orleans second line rhythms. He began playing the drums at 12 and worked in clubs and at recording sessions while still in high school. After just a semester at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, he sold everything he owned including his drums and hit the road for The Drummers Collective in New York City where he studied with Ricky Sebastian and Kim Plainfield and broadened his musical palette. In his early twenties Belote began touring Europe, Japan and the Caribbean with a variety of New Orleans-based jazz, blues and funk artists. He has recorded on more than 150 albums and his resume includes work with Mike Gordon, Larry Carlton, Jerry Douglas, John Oates, Travis Tritt, Col.Bruce Hampton, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Coffin, George Porter Jr., Willie Nelson, Sonny Landreth, Rodney Crowell, Henry Butler, Delfeayo Marsalis, Anders Osborne, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville, Jon Cleary, Bonnie Bramlett, Steve Masakowski and many other artists. Doug Belote proudly endorses Yamaha drums, Zildjian cymbals, and Pro-Mark drumsticks. |