Jeff Chimenti
Jeff Chimenti (born October 21, 1968 ) is an American keyboardist who became famous for the rock band Ratdog .
Life
Jeff Chimenti grew up in San Francisco . At the age of four, Chimente took a liking to music when he imitated the church organ player and thus found his way to the piano. At the age of seven he began taking music lessons with Angela Biggio, who was a student of Leonard Bernstein and Rudolf Serkin . During his high school years he joined the South San Francisco HS jazz band. This made one of the teachers aware of him and encouraged him by helping to play at various gigs.
In the tenth grade he played in the jazz band of the College of San Mateo , California . At the same time he was also a member of the “Skyline College Big Band” and the local symphony orchestra.
After graduating from high school in 1984, he enrolled at San Mateo College and took the jazz workshop, where he met Pony Poindexter . A year later he finished his school education. Instead he found a job in Amsterdam . Until the early 1990s he played with various musicians. He accompanied En Vogue and MC Hammer on their first tour. He also played with well-known musicians such as Charnett Moffett , Art Farmer , John Handy and Ernie Watts in jazz clubs. He was an on-demand keyboarder for musicians who were out and about without their house band, and he also took part in the Monterey Jazz Festival for seven years .
About "Dave Ellis's jazz quartet" Chimenti was in May 1997, keyboardist of the band Ratdog of Bob Weir , where he became a regular musician. So far he has recorded two albums with the band. He came through Weir in 2002 as a keyboardist to the Grateful Dead follow-up band The Other Ones , which was renamed The Dead shortly afterwards , where Chimenti continued to play and recorded another album. In 2009 Weir and Phil Lesh founded the band Furthur , in which Jeff Chimenti also played keyboard and is featured on albums.
He was also a member of Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade from Les Claypool from 2000 to 2002 , where he recorded two albums. He recorded other albums with Larry Coryell , Pete Escovedo and Dave Ellis .
In 2015 he was invited to play keyboards in five concerts with the band members who were still alive at the concerts for the 50th band anniversary of the Grateful Dead . He then became a member of Dead & Company . Together with the former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir (guitar), Bill Kreutzmann (drums) and Mickey Hart (drums) as well as John Mayer (guitar) and Oteil Burbridge (bass), the group tours regularly through the United States.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Discography Discogs
- ↑ discography at Allmusic; Retrieved December 19, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chimenti, Jeff |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American keyboardist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |