Artist: Brian Culbertson
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
It's On Tonight
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Come On Up
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Nice and Slow
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Nice and Slow
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Somethin' Bout Love
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Secrets
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
After Hours
Year: 1996
Tracks: 13
Modern Life
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Long Night Out
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Even though Brian Culbertson power be categorised as jazz calorie-free, his music has just now sufficiency "oomph" to preserve you interested. The talented pres Young Culbertson credits his daddy with helping him develop an ear for the type of music he makes. His don, Jim Culbertson, a respected high school jazz isthmus managing director and trumpeter, civilised a dearest of sanguine sounds for a whitney Moore Young Jr. Brian, world Health Organization thirstily listened to anything his dada listened to. Their Decatur, IL, home would be alive with the recorded sounds of Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, the Brecker Brothers, and David Sanborn. Growing up, Culbertson also listened to '70s R&B/pop/funk bands like Blood, Sweat & Tears, Tower of Power, and Earth, Wind & Fire. Culbertson began his musical training at the age of eight with piano lessons; at nine he affected to drums, at ten trombone, and at 12 bass. Bored with classical recital pieces, he began composing in junior high. By his newbie year in high school, he was experimenting with the then-new Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer and an older four-track recorder in the cellar of his parents' home. His dedication earned him six-spot single and v mathematical group Downbeat bookman awards.
During his high school years, he started acquiring into MIDI sequencing and synthesizers. He couldn't discover players wHO were able to play his songs on the storey he wanted. Most of his peers were into heavy metal. So Culbertson, world Health Organization cites pop producer/songwriter David Foster (World, Wind & Fire's "After the Love Is Gone") as i of his strongest influences, knowledgeable how to play all the parts himself. Keeping to himself, he negated whatsoever problems with peer acceptance of his musical taste. After gradation, Culbertson headed to Chicago to begin studies in the music program at DePaul University. On campus, he began to run into high-level musicians and started performing in a isthmus. A family protagonist helped Culbertson get a deal with Mesa/Blue Moon in 1994. In the sleeping accommodation of the flat he shared with trio college buddies, Culbertson single-handed recorded his debut record album, Long Night Out. The album played out ten-spot consecutive weeks in the Top Five of the adult present-day charts. On his follow-up album, Modern Life, Culbertson eschewed the one-woman band approach in favour of a live banding made up of some of the best musicians in Chicago, plus astral saxophonist Gerald Albright. He's since place out respective other albums, including After Hours (1995), Secrets (1997), and Somethin' Bout Love (1999). Culbertson's productions include albums by Bob Mamet and Steve Cole. Having gotten into composing publicizing jingles, Culbertson has fructify his sights on soundtracks. In 2001 the pianist (wHO also could play the trombone, trumpet, and rhythm section as well) released Skillful & Slow, followed by Come on Up in 2003. Two age later he issued It's on Tonight, and in 2006 Soulful Christmas, a assembling of holiday favorites as well as an original.
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