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Jack Maeby
Moving to New York City in the 1980's, Maeby built a career playing piano and organ behind acts such as Etta James, Otis Rush and Lowell Fulson. He was a keyboardist with the Uptown Horns band, accompanying Aaron Neville, Buster Poindexter and many other name attractions on their New York appearances. Jack was a regular member of NY Jazz and Blues Society honoree Danny Draher's band, played regularly with avant-garde jazz artist Marc Ribot and toured Europe with guitarist Joe Taino.
During his time in New York, Maeby was composer and musical director for a number of Off Broadway theater productions at La Mama Etc., CSC Repertory and the McCarter Theater. He began composing for film and television, garnering a Clio nomination for Original Music Scoring. His motion picture and TV work includes the films "Scandal", Disney's "The Arabian Night" and "How the Toys Saved Christmas" and the long-running children's series, "The World of David the Gnome".
After re-locating to Los Angeles in the mid-90's, Jack began writing fiction while touring Japan as musical director for a vocal group. He studied creative writing under novelist Claire Carmichael (aka Claire McNab), and was the recipient of a 2005 James Kirkwood Literary Award.
“The Thorazine Mirrorball” is Jack Maeby’s first published novel. He is at work on a sequel.
Awards
Clio Nomination Original Music Scoring James Kirkwood Literary Award
Gear
Nord C1 Organ Hammond A100 Organ
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The Thorazine Mirrorball: Jazz Mystery Getting Raves
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All About Jazz
LA Jazz musician Jack Maeby's thriller, The Thorazine Mirrorball is garnering critical acclaim from the literary and jazz communities alike. Dick Wood, host of “Jazz Tracks” on WABY Radio, raves “What an exciting read! You can almost hear the music. I couldn’t put the darn thing down." Aaron Lazar, writing for Futures Mystery Magazine says, a superb thriller...a taut and colorful novel...characters jump from the page.” The Thorazine Mirrorball takes place in the jazz and R&B milieu of the 1970s ...
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"Maeby is a consummate musician." Dick Wood, Host of "Jazz Tracks" WABY Radio