John Margolis
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Look Who’s On Our CD!

Here are just a few of the incredibly talented people who came over and worked with us with us on our CD!  We will try to post some links for some of these folks in the near future.  All these players have many more formidable credits than we can list below. And we will be adding names to the list soon.

Bob Telson - accordian, voices on "Mr. Telson's Reprise" and “Everyone in Love With the Wrong Person”.  Bob is an Academy, Tony and Grammy-award nominee, who wrote, songs and music for films that include “Baghdad Café” (which featured the beautiful song “Calling You" featuring Jeveeta Steele) and “Rosalie Goes Shopping”.  On Broadway, he wrote with Lee Breuer, the music for “Gospel at Colonus” and “Diary of a Death Foretold”. Bob and Lee wrote the critically acclaimed “Warrior Ant” which originated at BAM’s New Wave Festival. In addition to writing and producing his own projects, and playing in his tango-infused band, he has had songs covered by artists which include Marc Anthony, Joe Cocker, Shawn Colvin, Patti Austin, Holly Cole, George Benson, Gal Costa, Celine Dion, KD Lang, Patti Lapone, Stanley Turrentine and Jeveeta Steele.

Tim Leitner - Mixer. Tim stepped up to the plate at the last minute and managed to finish mixing the record in the last weeks before release. He has worked with an eclectic group of artists ranging from Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Brazilian guitarist Toninho Horta to mainstream artists Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen. In recent years, he has co-produced and mixed music for advertising, with successful campaigns pitching beer, soft drinks and fast food. He recently completed work on an album by world music artists Clan Chi and a semi-spoken word piece titled “Blue Gods Dancing Down The Avenue.” He and his wife, Dara, are currently working on a documentary film about her playing card collection

Robert Kinkel. Robert is a Composer, Co-producer, Musical Director, Keyboardist for theTrans Siberian Orchestra. Robert Kinkel earned a BA in music at Hamilton College, studying composition, piano and organ. He minored in physics and received a fellowship to study Solid State Physics in Columbia University’s Master’s Program. He left halfway through the program taking a job at the Record Plant Studios in New York, where he soon began working as an assistant engineer on productions for artists such as “The Who,” The Police”, and “Genesis.” He next began to work as an independent session keyboard player and writer. He wrote, played on, and/or produced hundreds of Jingles, including the phenomenally successful “Hefty Wimpy” ad campaign. Kinkel scored music for MTV, Nickelodeon’s “Clarissa Explains it All,” Al Franken’s audio book, “Why Not Me,” and industrials for AT&T and Verizon. Additionally, he helped pioneer a technique of sound design using and manipulating pure sound in a musical way, creating the sound logo for “A Current Affair” and bringing an entire office building to life for “Diet Coke”. He began his collaboration with Paul O’Neill and Jon Oliva on the “Savatage” album “Hall of the Mountain King,” playing keyboards and doing orchestrations. With subsequent “Savatage” albums he began writing and producing as well. Behind the scenes with Savatage, Robert moved out front as a member of the Creative Team for Trans-Siberian Orchestra, writing, producing, playing keyboards and serving as Musical Director for all albums, T.V. shows and concerts.

Gabriela Anders - “gypsy woman” on “Tell the Sun to Lay Low”. Gabriela is currently a recording artist on Warner Brothers Records. Check out Gabriela’s solo CD “Wanting” on Warner Bros. Jazz.

Romero Lubambo - guitar on “You Think You Know Someone”. Romero is a world-famous guitarist, who, besides headlining with his own groups over the years, has played with Cyro Baptista, Cavaquinho, Gato Barbieri, Kathleen Battle, Leandro Braga, Brasilia, Charlie Byrd, David Byrne, James Carter, David Chesky, Greg Cohen, Larry Coryell, Paquito D'Rivera, Astrud Gilberto, Vincent Herring, Lee Konitz & Brazilian, Arto Lindsay, Ivan Lins, Herbie Mann, Pizzicato Five, Dianne Reeves, Emily Remler, Steve Turre and Nana Vasconcelos.   

Jorge Alfano - Andean flutes, bass on “Tanta Belleza”  Check out his incredible bio on “allmusic.com”.  He has played with Astor Piazzolla and Mercedes Sosa among many many others. It’s his flutes you hear on all of those wonderful “National Geographic” specials.   

Mark Lambert - backround vocals on “Everyone in Love With the Wrong Person” Though he honored us with his singing in the  “Where’s Rich Choir” for this song, Mark is one of the world’s greatest guitar players, and a distinguished producer, writer and engineer.  This past summer he toured all over the world with Ute Lemper. He has also played with Astrud Gilberto, Darlene Love, Phoebe Snow, Renaissance, Dion, Bebel Gilberto, The New York Voices, Dave Douglas, Bob's Diner, Mike Mainieri, Bob James, Meatloaf and Warren Hill.  

    

Tim Ouimette - trumpet, co-arranger on “Here’s Something You Don't See Everyday". Tim has played trumpet and been musical director for Ray Charles. He’s a distinguished producer, writer, conductor and arranger who currently fronts the “Tim Oiumette Big Band” in NYC. He’s played live with way too many incredible musicians to list, and has many formidable CD credits, some of which include Ray Barretto , The Holmes Brothers, Ben E. King, Jon Lucien,  Mosaic Orchestra and Chico O'Farrell.

Hector Del Curto - bandoneon on “You Think You Know Someone”. Hector has worked with Roy Nathanson, Pablo Ziegler and the Forever Tango Orchestra (from the Broadway show).

Jim Gately - solo guitar on “Tell the Sun to Lay Low”, percussion on “Here’s the Plan”---Mixed the Grammy Award winning Bobby Sanabria/Afro Cuban Big Band CD (on Arabesque Records).  Played guitar with Michael Urbaniak, Odetta, Ursula Dudziak and Steve Marriott (of Humble Pie), and toured Europe with Peter Hofman.  His band  “Twenty Seven Heavens” released the CD “Visions & Versions” and many of the songs on this CD have been heard or licensed all over the World, including in Brazil, for Som Livrre (the band was on a soundtrack that sold over 600,000 CDs).  He’s a  formidable  guitarist, producer, writer and engineer and can be reached at Valhalla studios at (212) 563-7121.