Mme Margaret Chaloff: was my most beloved piano teacher, and my first spiritual teacher.I studied with her in 1976-77. This was one of the biggest blessings in my musical life. This is a link to a page about all of my teachers.
To read more about Mme. Chaloff, and in particular, the piano technique that I was fortunate enough to receive from her, check out this page from the website of composer and pianist Kenneth Girard: http://www.kennethgirard.com/teach.html
read about all of my teachers
Osho- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: World-Buddha Beloved Master incomparable blessing to have crossed paths with him in this life
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche: one of my favorite living Tibetan Lamas....pure love!
Adi Da Samraj: American Buddha World-teacher...brilliant teaching, nectar of transcendence transmission, Beloved of the Heart beyond all limitation
Airto Moreira: Brazilian percussion master, makes music with everything he touches
Andy Rinehart: One of my favorite musicians, and friends, a rare talent
Celso Alberti: wonderful Brazilian drummer, dear friend
Nancy Zeller: Yo, peeps! ..check it out..Bo-Peep is alive and well in New Hampshire! She's one o' my peeps, namely, my dear sister...respect!
Maniko: voice and self expression coach, and dear friend..and check out her album "House of the Beloved" which features yours truly!
Brian Whistler: check out Eartrek.com, the home page of my friend Brian Whistler, where you will find his beautiful new world/jazz CD "Forgotten Voices" which was recorded here at Freehouse
Alan Babbitt Color Photography: the photographer who contiruted photo images to the cover of the new album, "freehouse"....one of my favorite photographers, and people!
Jai Uttal : the Indian world jazz pioneer ,in whose band, the Pagan Love Orchestra, I am the keyboardist
Geoffrey Gordon world percussionist extraordinaire
Richard Peikoff : my good friend, and an amazing acoustic guitarist who has his own unique style. Well worth checking out! free mp3s of his music are also available at his site.
Michaelangelo: is a divinely inspired friend, a talented singer, dancer, poet and painter.
Deva Premal and Miten: two dear friends from Europe, whose albums, "Love is Space" and "Embrace",were produced here in the Freehouse Studio by the three of us.
Mizar5: an engaging new music website that features an tasteful and intelligent mix of music, musicians,and writings...“Mizar 5 is an eclectic website, for and about all kinds of music....... one can find interviews with a fine selection of musicians. Among them are newcomers, freewheelers, strange birds and hidden treasures as well as established names in the jazz-, pop- and rock scene.”
Jambase: a fantastic music site to find out about live music
jazzreview.com : a great new jazz site that has featured the "freehouse" album
Jazzonline.com : another great jazz site that also features "freehouse", including a free Liquid Audio download of one of the songs
Lifesigns Photo : a website put together by my friend Guy Meyer, devoted to photography, music, ecology, and other worthwhile issues.
Ravi: the talented kora player and world musician from England
Nicola Boschetti : Italian jazz guitarist with a very beautiful touch
Avikal : my friend who writes beautiful mystic poetry, and also leads satori retreats
Steve Smith and Vital Information : Steve plays drums on both my Windham Hill Jazz albums, he's one of the best in the business, and has a superb group, Vital Information
www.turiya4love.com - "Turiya Hanover, Professional Coach with extensive experience in Personal Development Groups, Training's and Counseling world-wide since 1973." Turiya has helped me in a breakthrough process called Path of Love that changed my life forever. check out the Path of Love here
My friend Adam Domash
is a brilliant piano improviser. He has written a book worth checking
out:
"Revolutionary breakthrough in the study of jazz keyboard harmony
and jazz piano voicings
196 page book with 2 audio CDs for mastering modern, jazz-oriented keyboard
harmony and arranging based on muscle memory techniques."
http://www.ThePianistsSearch.com
Here is a collection of Rumi poetry set to music, that i collaborated on with my friend Ramananda:
www.rumisongs.com
"Ramananda began his musical career as a child, lying underneath
a grand piano listening to his mother play. It is this quality of deep,
listening, surrender that has moved with him as he sang the music of Elvis
and Bob Dylan, classical and pop, kirtan, mantras and devotional singing,
to the present day where has been blessed with the poetry of Jelaluddin
Rumi, who has inspired the songs in his latest CD Secret Language Rumi
A Celebration in Song."
Disha; dear heart who has gone beyond .....
Rupda:
dear heart who is still with us, great web designer, and love being
Rupda's web design
website
Shranny: cool dude and talented muso from another dimension
Pramada; another multi talented friend...my Wing Tsun sihing
