Sidemen - Sidemen (2021)

Joining leaders Peter Welker and Todd Tribble are; Cliff Hugo (bass player with Supertramp for 20 years), Morris Acevedo (guitar player who received his Master’s degree from the Berklee College of Music) and Steve Steinberg (saxophonist with many bigger name artists including Natalie Cole). The keyboard chair was covered by a rotating group of wonderful players including Frank Martin, who has toured and recorded with Sting, Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston, and Ruben Valtierra, who has been “Weird” Al Yankovic’s music director for the last 25 years.

Joining these SIDEMEN are

Bill Champlin (Chicago), Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel / King Crimson), Pete Levin (Miles Davis / Bob Dylan), Tom Scott (L.A. Express), Steve Morse (Deep Purple / Dixie Dregs), David K. Mathews (Tower Of Power / Santana) and Chris Smith (leader of the Jefferson Starship).

To capture this magic, the band asked another multi-Grammy winning engineer Jim Stern to engineer the process…of which, during his 20 years of being the V.P. of Fantasy, he recorded more than 50 albums for these giants of jazz: Cannonball Adderley, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans, George Duke, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman and many more, including 15 albums for Van Morrison.