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Collaborations
The Maestro Ron Carter
Songs on the album:
Dorian Interludes
Falling Leaves
Upright Bass
Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz and the world of music. He has recorded over 2200 albums, and has a Guinness world record to prove it!From 1963 to 1968, he was a member of the acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet. Over his 60 year career, he has recorded with so many of the greats: Roberta Flack, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Sarah Vaughn, Lena Horne, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, Quincy Jones, Cannonball Adderley, Lou Rawls, Benny Golson, Chick Corea, Tony Williams, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Erykah Badu, A Tribe Called Quest, Santana, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chet Baker, Victor Wooten, Bootsy Collins, Emmet Cohen, and the list goes on! You can explore the universe of recordings with The Maestro at roncarteruniverse.com. Bio adapted from roncarterjazz.com.
Mr. Carter's biography "Finding the Right Notes" is available online and in stores.
Songs on the album:
Chromatic Schematic
Theta Frequencies
We have had the honor to record 26 tracks with Gregg that will be released in the future.
Drums and Percussion
Gregg Bissonette—just a regular, down-to-earth guy who plays drums for the most celebrated musicians, directors, and producers of our time. His down-to-earth balance between professionalism, strong work ethic, and congeniality make him a wonderful teacher, colleague, session artist, and a much-respected name in the music industry.
Musicians Gregg has worked with include Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band, Maynard Ferguson’s Big Band, The Buddy Rich Big Band, Ray Charles, The David Lee Roth Band, Spinal Tap, Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather // Larry Carlton, Steve Vai, Santana, Electric Light Orchestra, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Duran Duran, Robert Downey Jr., Toto, Don Henley, Wolfmother, Steve Bailey // Victor Wooten, and many others.
(Bio adapted from: https://greggbissonette.co/)
Featured on every song on
Buffalo Monroe Meets Willie Waldman
Trumpet player and Co-Producer
While in Memphis, he began playing in Beale St. clubs and eventually hooked up with Herman Green, Calvin Newborn, and Jimmie Ellis at Club Hardy. The band morphed into FreeWorld and toured with Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Robert Cray Band, Albert King, and Joe Cocker. Willie Waldman, member of the band Banyan with Stephen Perkins, released a solo fusion-improv album, Trumpet Ride (2001) which reached the Top 20 on the NACC and Jazz Charts. Willie has been featured on numerous recordings and his trumpet can be heard on albums by 2pac, Snoop Dogg, Warren G., K-Ci & Jojo, Jodeci, Salt & Pepa, the Eastsidaz, Coolio, and Perry Farrell to name a few. He also was hired to do session work for several soundtracks, including Tombstone, Under Siege 2, and 101 Dalmatians. Waldman, a performer with an exhausting tour schedule with the Willie Waldman Project, has performed alongside countless greats including Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Joe Satriani, Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Norwood Fisher, Flea, John Frusciante, Jake Cinninger, Thomas Pridgen, Tony Austin, Jay Lane, Terry Saffold, Herman Green, John Avila, Tony Franklin, Rob Wasserman, Norton Wisdom, and Robby Krieger.
Bio Adapted from: https://buckrail.com/willie-waldman-project-with-stephen-perkins-at-the-mangy-moose/ and https://open.spotify.com/artist/2WiulwTb2YnxMEZ0sKWISp
Featured on every song on
Buffalo Monroe meets Willie Waldman
Keyboards, Rhodes Piano, Melodica, Sound Engineer, Mixing Engineer, and Producer
Recording producer, engineer, touring multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter originally based out of Memphis, Nashville, and Woodstock NY. His alt-rock quintet Human Radio (Human Radio, Columbia, 1990) reached #23 on the Billboard Rock Chart with a video in “heavy rotation” on MTV and national tour. Rice has performed, recorded, toured, and written with numerous artists and groups including Isaac Hayes, George Clinton, Luther Ingram, Peter Frampton, Rob Wasserman, Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction), Adrian Belew, Susannah Hoffs (The Bangles), Duck Dunn, and Steve Cropper.
(Bio adapted from RPI website: https://faculty.rpi.edu/ross-rice)
Songs on the album include:
Willie Meets the Bull; Rus' Lab; Social Excitement; October Leaves; Ode to the Maestro; Dorian Interludes; Falling Leaves
Drums
Vinnie Amico is a drummer and member of the American jam band Moe. Amico – who came aboard in 1996 and has remained behind the kit ever since – says. “The reality is, you spent thirty years with people doing what you do, you get better. There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it. Your ears get more trained, your playing gets better and better, your ability to communicate with each other better.” Indeed, the band has spent much of its 30-year career on the road, including innumerable headline tours, international festival sets from Bonnaroo to Japan’s famed Fuji Rock, music-themed cruises, and sold-out shows alongside such like-minded acts as the Allman Brothers Band, Robert Plant, members of the Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, The Who, Gov’t Mule, and Blues Traveler, to name but a few. You just don’t think about thirty years down the line when you’re starting out,” Amico says. “I mean, you kind of do because that’s what you want to be doing for the rest of your life. Here we are, thirty years later – I’ve had this job longer than I probably would’ve had any job in the real world.“ (Bio adapted from: moe.org/band).
Song on the album
Maestro Session: Dorian Interludes
Guitar
Harold McCummings is a multi-instrumentalist and member of the progressive metal band Fall Of the Albatross. One way the band describes themselves is, “instrumental progressive metal for the imaginative mind.” According to a recent review, "The NYC instrumental quartet ... hides much behind their progressive metal label. Fall of the Albatross is faultless when it comes to jazz. Prog has always been a melting pot of any genre that wanders too close, but the genre mosaic of Fall of the Albatross is especially vivid. Metal this progressive makes for a precarious tightrope act. This is the kind of progressive metal that switches gears constantly, and the opener “Seance” showcases the musicians’ collective ability to make Rite’s twists and turns feel natural. Guitarists Harold McCummings and Colin Ruhwedel playfully bounce off each other in the jazzy sections, harmonize with McCummings’ keyboards, and join forces for upbeat math riffs." Bio adapted from: https://www.angrymetalguy.com/fall-of-the-albatross-rite-review/
Clint Wagner
Song on the album:
Falling Leaves
Guitar
Clint Wagner is a multi-instrumentalist and recorded guitar on the track Falling Leaves, written by Calvin Newborn and featuring The Maestro on upright bass. A long-time collaborator with Willie Waldman, Clint has performed and recorded with Banyan, Willie Waldman Project, and he is one of the founding members of FreeWorld. FreeWorld has performed or recorded with such notables as: Levon Helm, Little Feat, The Memphis Horns, Billy Preston, Richie Havens, The Meters, Bootsy Collins, Merl Saunders, Dr. John, Timothy Leary, John Sinclair, James Cotton, Willie Mitchell, Jim Gaines, Jim Dickinson, Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens & Richard Rosebrough (Big Star), Roland Janes, Dave Aron (Snoop Dogg, Sublime), Mojo Buford, Ace Cannon, Ivan Neville, Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady (Hot Tuna), Blues Traveler, Jon Fishman & Page McConnell (Phish), Widespread Panic, Rob Wasserman, The Derek Trucks Band, The Radiators, Melvin Seals (Jerry Garcia Band), The Grandmothers (formerly Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention), Stephen Perkins & Tony Franklin, Los Lobos, John Blackwell (Prince), David Bryan (Bon Jovi), John Avila (Oingo Boingo), Eric Garcia (Bob Dylan), and many others!
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