Hectic Watermelon

Guitarist-composer, John Czajkowski, founded the critically acclaimed fusion-rock band, Hectic Watermelon in 2004. The 2006 debut Hectic Watermelon album, The Great American Road Trip, features Jerry Goodman (of Mahavishnu Orchestra and Dixie Dregs) on electric violin. This jazz-rock tour de force quickly established John as a fiery and creative new musical force while earning the album a number one ranking in the UK Alternative Jazz polls published by Jazzwise magazine. Hectic Watermelon has performed live with Jerry Goodman and frequently as a power trio in Southern California and West Coast tours. Additionally, the band was recently joined live by Trans Siberian Orchestra founder and Grammy-nominated violinist, Mark Wood.

Czajkowski is an active BMI composer publishing both independently and with Sonikstep Publishing placing music on TV networks from CNN to MTV and several others.

John has helped spearhead an historic multi-composer/ multi-CD project with German drumming phenom, Marco Minnemann named “Normalizer 2.” Several composers Mike Keneally, Trey Gunn, Alex Machacek, Marco and John each are writing and recording a complete album around a virtuosic 52-minute recorded drum performance. John's album, "West ZooOpolis," and the others are to be released on the Abstract Logix label throghout 2009.

Awards

The album topped the UK Jazzwise alternative jazz charts at number one.

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