John Beasley, musical director of International Jazz Day and solo recording artist as well as one time Miles Davis/Steely Dan sideman, joined intrepid keyboard master Otmaro Ruiz (John McLaughlin, Dianne Reeves) and young touring and recording keyboardist Tommy King (Maroon 5, Haim) for this symposium which covered Hanon exercises, jazz education, …

Contemporary keyboard session king Jamie Muhoberac meets young synth whiz & composer Peter Dyer along with former Utopia/Lou Reed sideman & Pokemón (!) composer Ralph Schuckett for this episode, recorded by John Paterno on Feb. 20, 2015. We talked about modular synths, Mort Garson's "Black Mass Lucifer" 1970's synth opus, recording in studios vs. h…

Master composer/pianist Billy Childs, hot off Grammy noms for his Laura Nyro tribute project teams with his former student, Miles Davis alum Deron Johnson (currently staff composer for The Weinstein Co) and Conan O'Brien's keyboardist (and fellow Grammy nominated composer) Scott Healy for episode 6, recorded on Dec. 19th, 2014. Topics: Freddie Hubb…

The Yellowjackets' founding member and leader throughout its 32 year history, Russell Ferrante, joined Mitchel Forman (Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Stan Getz, John Scofield) & Tribal Tech's Scott Kinsey (Oceans 11, 12 & 13 scores, Zawinul) in host Jeff Babko's living room to talk about practice habits, acoustic vs. electronic instruments, softwa…

Episode 4 was very special, and centered around legendary producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom (Elvis Costello, Latin Playboys, Bonnie Raitt) with Patrick Warren (Boogie Nights score, Fiona Apple), legendary session man Jim Cox and contemporary session man Zac Rae. We talked everything from jam band mentality to FM synth programming to iconic or…

Jeff Babko is joined by Tony Williams Lifetime/Bob Dylan/Santana alum, and current USC jazz piano professor and Steinway artist, ALAN PASQUA, jazz pianist, master accompanist (Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Larry Carlton) and composer of the theme to "Everybody Loves Raymond" TERRY TROTTER, and musical director/ producer/ composer/ keyboardist CHE CH…

Hey!!! We get extra caffeinated with contemporary jazz organist and world class pianist Larry Goldings (who is also super funny), Toto legend Steve Porcaro, and sonic pioneer Money Mark on episode 2. There is chat about Steve's MJ hit "Human Nature", his brothers Mike & Jeff, his mastery of the Yamaha CS80, the "Rosanna" instrumental section... and…

In this debut "Caffeinated Keyboardist", legendary "Wrecking Crew" pianist Don Randi, Jellyfish founder/Beck keyboardist Roger Manning, Jr., and world class jazz pianist Geoffrey Keezer join Jeff Babko at his TudorTones Studio in Los Angeles and discuss their experiences as keyboard players in their respective and varied careers. Engineer John Pate…