| First Name: |
Dale |
| Last Name: |
Crowley |
| Website: |
http://www.myspace.com/gryphondaleband
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| Location: |
Napa, CA, United States of America |
| Time zone: |
(GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada... |
| Joined: |
Monday, September 7, 2009 |
| Status: |
Active |
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| My Talents |
• Keyboard, Organ
• Keyboard, Piano
• Keyboard, Synthesizer
• Producing
• Remixing
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| About Me |
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Dale is a classically trained pianist and composer, and writes and performs the songs on the albums. At twelve, he played Rhapsody in Blue, and by 14, he was playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto in C with an orchestra. He was also interested in jazz from the age of 12 (influenced by Dave Brubeck records his father played) and started his first jazz band at age 12, in the 6th grade. He studied jazz composition with the likes of Mark Levine at the Berkeley Jazz School and many others in NYC and on the road in Asia. Besides being a musician, he has traveled all over the world seeking enlightened teachers in remote places. He draws his spiritual inspiration from the years he spent living in a Zen Monastery in Asia. He lived and meditated for years at Po Lam Zen Monastery in China, and studied with enlightened Buddhist masters throughout China and Southeast Asia. He still has a daily meditation and yoga practice. Musical Influences: Herbie, Miles, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Dave Stewert, Hiromi, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, and singer/songwriters like The Frames. Spiritual Influences: Zen Buddhism, Thich Nhat Hanh, Deepak Chopra, Yogananda, and The quest for Enlightenment.
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