Jazz Drumming 4 CD - Import

Armed with a 12 string acoustic and a microphone, he discovered San Francisco,leaving New Jersey forlack of a better car. Neva Chonin of the SF Bay Guardian called Ray"...an all around Renaissance kind of guy..." and described"a recording stuffed with a multiplicity of textures". He has worked with Art Alexakis (Everclear)Scott Mathews (he stared as Fluke Starbucker in "Hardware Wars", also wrote a song for Barbara Streisand, and has produced John Hiatt and Roy Orbison).

Ray's influences are varied,blending the vocal stylings of Marvin Gaye,David Bowie,and Chuck D.

with a songwritting style derived from 60's and 70's pop,tossed up in a salad of hip-hop lo-fi soul and punk DIYness.

Ray took up drums at 5, sax at 6, organ at 7,and then quit trying to play music and just listened very carefully. Top 40 and soul music on the east coast am radio controlled Ray's concentration and close-and-play phonograph, his biggest influence was most likely his older cousins for leaving their 45's at the house. AT 15 Ray bought an electric bass after a football accident broke his hand, and wore out the grooves of the first Pretenders LP, teaching himself with his cast on. He then spent the next 10 years bouncing from guitar to drums to bass to keys, jack off all trades masturbater of none.

Then, after he moved to San Francisco, Ray bought a little sampler,and his songs have never been the same.

He has been deeply entrenched in San Francisco's music scene since 1987, playing in several ground breaking bands. His first,Rabbit Season,was a hyper pop,volume fueled post-punk pop band which included Alison Faith Levy on keyboards and vocals,Josh Pollack on Bass and Guitar,and Chris Stohr on drums.

Ray played guitar and bass and made his first bunch of pals. Josh and Ray later went on to form Zircus,an amazing "dorkestra" of genre hopping musical gypsies.