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Name:
Max
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Various visual works set to original compositions by Max Vasquez under Maxx Vaxx Music Productions
About Me:
An Award Winning Composer(Los Angeles Music Awards Best Jazz Album and Best Lounge Artist 2006), since 1978, Max embraces all styles of music with a keen instinct for the nuances of each genre he excels in. At the age of nine, he performed with choirs, in musicals and plays, taught himself how to read and write music by the time he was 13, and by age 14 he worked professionally playing trumpet in horn sections of bands all over L.A. and bass with members of punk band Verbal Abuse, whom Rodney Bingenheimer loved He also played with Black Flag members Sam and Henry and met and hung out with The Doors Ray Manzarek and John Doe of X and others at the Whiskey Agogo. He is somewhere in the mosh pit shots from Penelope Spheeris' "Decline of Western Civilization- The Punk Years". In 1984, Jim the Poorman and Swedish Eagel played his demo tape on KROQ when it was easier to give cool DJs your band's tape without needing to sign a mile of legal stuff! Legendary giant Doc Severinsen was amazed and encouraged him to pursue music. Upon having looked over Max's first orchestral jazz arrangement for Big Band, it astounded him that Max was only sixteen when he wrote it! With further training from some of the leading jazz educators/studiomen in Los Angeles, Max went on to play and study with Gary Foster, Clare Fischer, Alan Broadbent, Bobby Bradford, Freddie Hubbard, and even wrote for the Count Basie orchestra! Dick Grove School of Music and Berklee Music Institute taught him greatly the art of writing/arranging and recording engineering respectfully, and Max was among the first pioneers in MIDI and electronic music. In 1982, He joined a group of excellent musicians and called themselves "Water Colours", playing in all the Jazz venues of the day. His performance strengths are trumpet, voice, keyboards, guitar, bass - and the studio, of course. An internship at Group IV Reording Studios led to working on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", The Abyss, and Back To The Future Pt 3 among many more sessions including Will Smith, Sly&Robbie, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, and Jon Hassell's Grammy nominated "Cityscapes". He has also performed with Oingo Boingo members, Mel E Mel&Whipple Whip(Grand Master Flash), The Jazz Crusaders' Stix Hooper and Joe Sample, War and tower of Power sidemen, etc. The list of luminaries Max has worked with is long and accomplished. Manhattan Transfer comissioned one of his pieces. The TV show "Latin Lifestyles" currently uses one of his pieces as its theme song. The latest shows my music is on is "My Name Is Earl"(thank you Mr. Garcia!), and the Spearmint Rhino Amateur Stripper Competition on Pay-Per-View, and TV1 History Special.
Record Label:
Maxx Vaxx Music
Label Type:
Independent
Band Members:
various
Hometown:
Los Angeles
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Performer/Producer/ Composer/Music Business Consultant/Publisher-Administrator Video Director/Editor
Companies:
Maxx Vaxx Music(BMI)
Schools:
Berklee College of Music , Platt College, Dick Grove School Of Music, Sonny Phillips Jazz Workshop
Interests:
New CD! Dawning of The Light Ages http://tinyurl.com/DawningStore
Movies:
Weeds, Dexter, Law&Order, Adult Swim, Family Guy, CNN News, TIVO
Music:
http://www.reverbnation.com/maxxvaxxmusic
Books:
We need your help! New Release Cycle of Life by Jeff Stetson, Produced by Max Vasquez
Thanks so much for your friendship. So glad we're able to connect here. I support all your endeavors right back. After six long years of producing my ailing friend Jeff Stetsons project, Cycle Of Life is finally back from the manufacturers! Due to delays in the manufacturing process, we were unable to release the CD in a timely manner. We thank those of you who have been waiting for this moment to arrive.
Our hope is that the interest from people like you and others will soon monetarily benefit this loving soul's health. So my simple request is this: please buy his new album, "Cycle of Life", and help spread the word upon enjoying it and you'll be helping raise money for Jeff's much needed medicine.
Together with some of our friends, we helped make this project because we believe Jeff is of legendary stature in our generation, yet virtually no one knows who he is, primarily because he's had to struggle all his life to maintain his health. Under Clinton's administration, Jeff finally got excellent health care which went away 7 years ago.
But this is not a political issue. He's been getting worse with a lifelong condition called Crohns Disease. It's horrible, chronic, lifelong and incurable. Imagine being trapped in a torture machine for over fifty hard years enduring yet defiantly battling the pain. There is excellent treatment available, yet out of reach for this kind and humble struggling San Gabriel Valley guitar teacher.
Jeff's illness has unfortunately become more progressive over the last several years. And it's gotten worse in the last month! It is our hope that the medicine he needs will prop him right back up. Jeff also needs to be well in order to take care of his wonderful wife, who suffers from MS. By simply buying a CD, you can truly be a part of Jeff's healing.
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It was an incredible challenge to complete this album, yet it was a labor of love. "Cycle of Life" shows the genius of a man with a unique perspective of this "journey" that we all share. I'm honored to have been allowed to use my own vision to help shape this brilliant man's musical stories. I would love nothing more than to see this wonderful album help raise money for his medication. The treatment would bring my friend and mentor back to the kind of good health necessary to tour, enabling him to share his insights and skills with all of us. We believe Cycle Of Life is his masterpiece! Listen and you might believe too!
As a limited edition incentive, Jeff and I will be autographing, by request, the first 100 CDs purchased - plus "Nowhere Street", a classic 18 song collection of Jeff Stetson basement 4-track tapes, in which Jeff's musical brilliance far outshines the recording quality. Each of these CDs would be double albums back in the day... all for the price of one! Only $15.00 US (shipping included).
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To learn a little more about Jeff and to hear samples of the new tracks (we don't want y'all buyin' something you don't want just to help someone out), go to: http://www.myspace.com/jeffstetsonband
If you'd like to see him in action, we captured Jeff in an MTV Unplugged style performance and turned it into a YouTube show: http://www.youtube.com/jeffstetson
(Our street team, and I volunteer to admin Jeffs profiles. Jeff doesnt use computers. Our
reward will be his good health and success!)
Many Thanks and Blessings,
Max Vasquez
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Albums:
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jazz stylings of Swing legend Patti Kelly
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acoustic performances of original songs by Jeff Stetson, produced by Max Vasquez for Ma...
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Video performances by The Randy Van Horne Singers
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Kingston Ducoeur performs live Produced by Max Vasquez & Carl A. Craig for Maxx Vax...
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We are a group of soul music enthusiasts who spend our time dancing to and collecting c...
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Os canais POETAsec30 e AFVABMDES são do poeta ANTONIO FERNANDO ********** The POETAsec3...
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