Steve started playing bass more than 4 decades ago and is a member of Honk Wail & Moan, Big Gritty, Stan Smith Plus, Disorder, Furs, Porterhouse Surf, Schtick, QED Jazz, Thunder Mustard, Totally Bogus, Yumbambe, Zancudo.
Writes pop songs, jazz, surf, blues, music for soundtracks and modern dance.
Has performed:
Art Rock, Blues, Country, Jazz, Reggae, Improvised game music, Polka and pop to southern slavic music. Post Modern chamber music and Opera Theater.
Musicians performed with:
Tito Puente Jr. Eddie Clearwater Henry Gray Johnny Vidacovich George Bedard Benny Goodman Orchestra featuring Henry Cuesta Louis Bellson with the Rick Brunetto Big Band Cheryl Banks-Smith - former Sun Ra Arkestra member Jerome Dillon - pre N.I.N. Stan Smith Beetkeepers - opened for 10000 Maniacs, Marshall Crenshaw, Scrawl RAYZER - opened for White Zombie Willie Pooch Sean Carney Band - winners 2007 International Blues Challenge, opened for Junior Watson, Keb Mo, Kenny Neal Teeny Tucker Syrup - opened for Marc Ribot, Sonny Sharrock, Charles Gayle Wheel Hoss - opened for American Music Club Honk Wail & Moan, Porterhouse surf band, Schtick, Tommy Smith Quartet, Barry Chern's Noble New Clear Band, Bradley Mellen Quartet, Al Smyth's FBnCC, Dwight Lennox, Richard Lopez, Crazy Joe Tritschler, Dan Rowan, Liz Pennock and Dr Blues, Ricky Nye, Todd Hepburn, Carl Sonny Leyland, Mark Braun, Nova Madrugada, Lucey's Maze, Cathy Wicks, Sabor Latino, New Remnants Big Band, Avant Collective, Guy Lombardo Band, Jazz To Go Big Band, Wooden Soul, New Basics Brass Band, Heffy, Zivili, Yumbambe, The Delroys, Shakewells, The Midnighters, C. Barton Love Machine, The Knittles, Uncle Owen, Julie Ann Blue, Elisa Nicholas, Leah- Carla Gordone, Ken Messer's Phoenix Project and a few hundred others. Awards
1994 Columbus Music Awards Outstanding
Jazz Talent Deserving Wider Recognition-
Honk, Wail & Moan
1994 Stache and Little Brother’s Kachina,
Favorite Jazz Band - Honk, Wail & Moan
1989 Crazy Mama’s Battle Of The Bands -
RAYZER
"...one of the most inventive groups ever to
make music." Fritz The Niteowl, Short North
Gazette
"The most important thing about this is that it
swings. I don't get to hear a lot lately that
swings. I hear lots of jazz that skronks and jags
from place to place but very little that actually
swings in a head-nodding, foot-tapping,
enveloping fashion." The Aquarian
Weekly
"Their musicianship is dead serious but there
is a refreshing sense of wackiness in their
work. This band has a bundle of energy."
Option
"Honk, Wail and Moan feature the talents of
six individuals all swinging out. The wonderful
titles [of the originals] only hint at the
creativity of the music. There is a definite
pleasure in playing that comes from the
musicians themselves, which manifests itself
in continual energy." Home Theater
Technology
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"...one of the most inventive groups ever to
make music." Fritz The Niteowl, Short North
Gazette
"The most important thing about this is that it
swings. I don't get to hear a lot lately that
swings. I hear lots of jazz that skronks and jags
from place to place but very little that actually
swings in a head-nodding, foot-tapping,
enveloping fashion." The Aquarian
Weekly
"Their musicianship is dead serious but there
is a refreshing sense of wackiness in their
work. This band has a bundle of energy."
Option
"Honk, Wail and Moan feature the talents of
six individuals all swinging out. The wonderful
titles [of the originals] only hint at the
creativity of the music. There is a definite
pleasure in playing that comes from the
musicians themselves, which manifests itself
in continual energy." Home Theater
Technology
"Roundly entertaining, the creators of the
bravest music this town has heard in years."
The Columbus Dispatch
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