LOS ANGELES -
May 8, 2020 -
PRLog -- Al's jazz journey began with legendary jazz saxophonist
John Handy. His early studies with the Jazz icon were an inspiration and real benefit during his studies at San Francisco State, where Handy had just been hired to lead the Jazz Studies Dept. Al's pursuit of the jazz flame lead him to Seattle where as a student at Cornish Institute he studied under other noteworthy pillars of the day like,
Gary Peacock,
Art Lande, and
Julian Priester. After graduating
Summe Cum Laude with a
Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, his studies continued in Southern California at
CSU Los Angeles where he completed a
Master of Music in Commercial Music, earning
Special Recognition in Graduate Studies.
Al's work has included tours with saxophonist
Ronnie Laws. As co-founder/keyboardist/
arranger of the Riverside-San Bernardino group
JASPER he wrote original music for that group which featured stellar reed players such as
Gerald Albright,
Everette Harp,
Brandon Fields,
Steve Tavaglione and many others. As vocal accompanist, Daniels has appeared in various jazz clubs around the Los Angeles area with
Cathy-Segal Garcia in piano trio format. Garcia is active with her Vocal Workshops in Los Angeles for jazz singers. In one of her most recent workshops she featured
Cheryl Bentyne from the
Manhattan Transfer and hired Daniels to provide solo piano accompaniment for the 10 singers in the Workshop.
His work has also won recognition in
Jazziz Magazine "Keyboards on Fire Competition" for his original jazz composition
"Intimate Pursuit". That song and nine others, which were part of his album
"Life in the Balance" which was reviewed by jazz journalist Jonathan Widran who wrote,
"...offers out-there improvisations in front of catchy melodies, with rhythmic nods to gospel and, most interestingly, Brazilian music...the album is one of the better artist released indies of the young year." His original tune
"Jazzed Cats" was featured in the magazines CD of the month.
His current 3 year journey to record and release
"Brasiliana" took the longest to create. But when asked about that, he admits that "it was worth all the Time and Money!"
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