The touring band is anchored by bass player Dewayne Pate, who has worked with a wide array of artists, including Huey Lewis and The News, Boz Scaggs, Maria Muldaur, Pat Benatar, and Charlie Musselwhite. He’s been a columnist for Bassics Magazine and recently toured with trumpet virtuoso Arturo Sandoval. Keyboard player Matt Harris is co-director of jazz studies at California State Northridge University and has toured, written, and recorded with such jazz legends as Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, and Diane Schuur. Guitarist Nick Granville is one of New Zealand’s leading fusion players and a guitar tutor at the New Zealand School of Music, while drummer Lance Philips is jazz programme leader at the New Zealand School of Music as well as percussionist with the Dancing With the Stars band.
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