joe henderson, john coltrane, steve grossman, george garzone, miles davis, ohio players, bob berg, jerry bergonzi, eddie marshall, jerry garcia, dexter gordon, joe lovano, sonny rollins, kenny garrett, parliament/funkadelic, prince, weather report, steps ahead, michael brecker, fat jon, dj premier, j-dilla, tribe called quest, gang starr, charles mcpherson, bootsy collins, wayne shorter, freestyle fellowship, grateful dead, donny mccaslin, david carlos valdez, e-40, larry schneider, people under the stairs, gary joynes, david fiuczynski
Kenny Brooks was inspired to play reed instruments from the age of 9. After graduating from El Cerrito H.S. in 1984 he went directly to the New England Conservatory at age 17. There he studied with master saxophonist George Garzone and other notable faculty including George Russell, Bob Moses and Ken Radnofsky. Brooks received his B.M. in '88 and returned to the Bay Area in '89. His work in the early 90's included the Peck Allmond Group, the afro-pop group Kotoja and the start of his long-term association with legendary drummer Eddie Marshall. 1991 was the birth year of Brooks' groundbreaking hip/hop-jazz band Alphabet Soup. Co-founded with pianist Dred Scott, Alphabet Soup remains one of San Francisco's most popular bands. Alphabet Soup was the first hip/hop-jazz group at both the Monterey and San Francisco Jazz Festivals. In 1992 he recorded with his hero and teacher Joe Henderson on Kitty Margolis' CD "Evolution". In 1994 Kenny Brooks and Charlie Hunter began a run of almost 3 years playing duo and trio every Friday night at the SOMA nightspot the Up and Down Club. In 1996 Brooks joined the Charlie Hunter Quartet. They recorded the CD "Natty Dread" for Blue Note and toured extensively throughout the U. S., Canada and Europe. By 1995 Brooks was leading a trio under his own name with Eddie Marshall and top Bay Area bassist Jeff Chambers. Brooks played at the Monterey Jazz Festival in '83, '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, '94, '95 and '99. Other international festivals include the North Sea, Montreaux, Istanbul, What Is Jazz? (Knitting Factory), Copenhagen, Molde(Norway), Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and many others. Gigs have included venues like the House of Blues(New Orleans, L.A. , Cambridge, Anaheim, Las Vegas, Orlando, and Myrtle Beach), Yoshi's, Knitting Factory, Red Rocks, L.A. Greek Theater, Berkeley Greek Theatre to name just a few. Brooks has toured to Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, England, Germany, Turkey and Holland. Brooks has played and recorded with people like Mike Clark, Ohio Players, Steve Smith, Les Claypool, MMW, String Cheese Incident, Josh Roseman, etc..... joined Bob Weir's (Grateful Dead) band Ratdog in 2000 and has been playing with them ever since....in 2006 recorded on Chuck MacKinnon's new CD as well as DJ Teeko's "My Soundstation" and appearing with Teeko's 41Funk Jam Band..
Dear KB. Thanks for the nice music and vibes in San Jose. It was fun to play. I hope we can do more. We should play some trio sometime. Blessings. Brianji.
We are looking so forward to the Moutain Winery shows! thanks for the add! Your music totally changed my summer vibes for the better at the Greek. thanks so much for the music you make. &hearts
This Saturday in McLaren Park, Excelsior Dist. of SF - spread the word & bring the folks! It's gonna be a good one...
Reasons to come - it is: - FREE - featuring the SF Bay Area's most killin' bands, DJ's, MCs - a community event, supporting the youth in arts and to get them off the streets and into college via scholaships (see more below about the Friday's fundraiser event) - in the park, and it's bound to be a gorgeous day - ... uh, IT'S FREE. Quesitons? Contact Nino at ominoday@yahoo.com
Come out TOMORROW NIGHT for the pre-event fundraiser party at El Rincon! It's only $10 and ALL PROCEEDS go to the DJ Domino youth Scholarship fund (to be awarded at the vent on Saturday)!
It would be an honor to meet you sometime. I am taking my son to see Ratdog and the Allman Bros. 8/16 in mansfield, MA. He loves you just as much.
If you could take a picture with us we would be ever so grateful :)
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HEY BROTHER, I WAS BLOWIN' THE DUST OF OFF " NATTY DREAD" BY C. HUNTER.... DIGGIN' THIS AWESOME SAX SOLO.... GO TO LOOK AT THE COVER..... IT'S YOU!!!!! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YA IN A MONTH!!!!! PEACE!!!!!
come to an important cool benefit-with stuff signed by kenny brooks himself----freakin sweet
some of you may know me as the "fake bobby" from westbury 10-31-06. when i sat in with ratdog for werewolves of londen dressed as senior Weir. I just wanted to say hey and let you know I am orginizing and performing at a benefit for the wounded warrior project. It is a great orginization that helps severly injured veterans and their familys. you can check out their website at http://www. woundedwarriorproject. org
Bobby and the boys helped us out a lot for this benefit and are providing the following items to be raffled off
two vip tickets to The allmans/ratdog shows at either pnc or jones beach
a drum head signed by the entire band plus some cool art work by Jay lane on the rear of the drum head
a signed poster from the band
also we have some cool items to raffle off from artists such as the black crowes warren haynes phil lesh blues traveler govt mule ian hunter and more cool stuff
the show will feature a lot of cool long island artists including me and my son doing some cool acoustic/electric jams as blind sheep we promise you a few dead tunes along the way we go on around 7 pm heres the scoop on the whole show
ALL PEACE ALL NIGHT A BENEFIT FOR THE WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT sAT MAY 24 2008 BARTINI BAR 124 nORTH CARL AVE BABYLON NY 11702 (AT THE WEST END OF THE LIRR BABYLON TRAIN STATION)
DOORS AT 5PM, SHOW AT 6PM 10 ADMISSION SHOW SHOULD LAST THROUGH THE NIGHT
