In the collection
4 records
Played with
Mark Knopfler
2 records together
Mark Egan
2 records together
Don Grolnick
2 records together
Lani Groves
2 records together
Patti Austin
2 records together
Hugh McCracken
2 records together
Steve Gadd
2 records together
Anthony Jackson
2 records together
Ralph MacDonald
2 records together
David Sanborn
2 records together
Sting
1 record together
Steely Dan
1 record together
About
American jazz-funk / fusion guitarist and bandleader. Born on 11 September 1955 in Osaka, Japan. Died on 25 July 2008 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
Born in Japan, he returned with his family to Baltimore, Maryland at the age of two. He studied at the University of Miami music college meeting guitarist Pat Metheny and bass players Jaco Pastorius and Will Lee. His work can be heard on Steely Dan’s Gaucho, Paul Simon’s One Trick Pony, Sting’s ...Nothing Like the Sun. Soloist on the cover version of Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing and Billy Joel’s The Stranger. He also worked for Harry Belafonte, Marcus Miller, Carla Bley, Miles Davis, Ruben Rada (on the album Montevideo) and Gil Evans. He recorded three albums with The 24th. Street Band between 1979 and 1981. He also recorded with Michael Shrieve and Klaus Schulze. In 2007 he was diagnosed with throat cancer.
From Discogs.