JIM
PASSARD — Bandleader, Featured Singer, Rhythm
Guitar
Jim's
tasteful and versatile guitar playing fronts The Lost Cats, while
his smooth voice captures your ear and refuses to let it go!
Born
and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jim’s music
tours have taken him from Alaska through the Pacific Northwest
and
back home to California. His inviting style has endeared
him to club owners and patrons for many years. Audiences appreciate
his wide range of material and the quality of his performance.
His eclectic
repertoire, performed with masterful fluidity,
includes songs with the jazzy elegance of Michael Franks, the
Latin
classics
of Antonio Carlos Jobim, and the great American standards of
Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer.
DAVE
BELL — Guitar and Vocals
Guitarist Dave Bell, originally from the
San Francisco Bay area, is a graduate of Berklee College of Music,
Boston. He studied with many jazz greats, finding inspiration in
the teachings of Gary Burton. He returned to the East Bay where his
search for a place to make noise (bass and drums!) finally resulted
in building his own recording studio in Richmond, California. While
living and working in Richmond, Dave began recording his own material
and soon had requests from his fellow musicians to record their demos
and CDs. When his day jobs dried up in the mid-90s, recording became
his full-time job, and Bellboy Recording was born. Since then it's
been Pro Tools, a drum room addition, and, thankfully, good word
of mouth for Bellboy. Performance wise, Dave has found outlets for
all his musical loves over the years: Bossa Nova with Via Rio, jazz
with the New Moldy Figs and Leann Petersen, and blues/reggae/soul
with powerhouse singer/songwriter Johnny Smith. in 2009 he brought
out a solo guitar Christmas CD, and 2010 completed a ten-year stint
with Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks. The future looks bright, with CD's,
gigs, and tours in the offing.
ANDREW
GRIFFIN — Drums
Andrew is a graduate of Berklee College of Music. He has
taught hundreds of aspiring drummers at his own East Bay
Drummers’ Studio and has taught master classes at the
Jazz School in Berkeley and for the California Percussive
Arts Society. Andrew
has perfromed/recorded with: CAKE, Camper Van Beethoven, Luce,
Vince Welnick(Grateful Dead, Tubes,
Todd Rundgren), Kenny
Margolis (Cracker), Jonathan Richman, Steve Yerkey, Webb Wilder,
Actual Wolf, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter,
Shana Morrison, Satya, Chris Stills, Brad Brooks (MC5), Jesse
DeNatale, David Immergluck (Counting Crows), Rob Hodgkiss & Charlie
Colleen (Train), Roger Rocha (4 Non Blondes), Nate Query (the
Decemberists),
Eric Holden (Josh Groban, the Bodeans), Vicki Randall (Mayvis
Staples),Chris Xefos (King Missile), Duane Jarvis (Lucinda Williams),
Jimmy Prescott (G Love and Special Sauce), Steve Fisk (producer
Nirvana, Soundgarden, the Posies, Soul Coughing), Carol Pope
(Rough Trade), Jeff Bhasker (Grammy winning producer Fun, Kanye
West, Rolling Stones). In addition to drumming, Andrew is also
a singer/songwriter and producer. He currently fronts Oakland-based
Indie rock group Felsen who have just released their fifth album.
ALEX
BAUM —
Bass
Alex Baum, The San Francisco Bay Area
Bassist/composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist, is originally
from Allentown PA and was a student at Berklee College of Music,
Boston. He has performed all
over the world from Osaka to Orvieto and many places in between.
Playing both acoustic stand-up
style or electric
bass, he's helped produce and record three Blue Bucket discs Blues
Volume and Good
To The Damn Bone. He has performed with Blue Bucket at the
Umbria Jazz and the Monterey Jazz festivals. He has played bass
for the Johnny
Nocturne Band and has toured extensively
as a charter member of Dan Hicks and the
Acoustic Warriors and with the ground-breaking world fusion
band Murasaki Ensamble for their releases Magenta and
Birds & Drums.
Working in many styles, he has performed or recorded with Dan
Hicks,
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis,“Sweets” Edison, the Johnny Nocturne Band,
the Murasaki Ensamble, Duke Roballard, Pinetop Perkins, Earl King, Hubert Sumlin,
Mitch Woods' Rocket 88's, Zero, Bob Weir, Clarence Clemmons, Steve Kimock, Johnny
Adams, Jessica Williams, Riche Cole, “Big” Jay McNealy, Liza Silva & Vox
de Brasil, and many others.
*THE
BAND — Contact The Lost Cats
The
Lost Cats can perform as an intimate duo or as a
combination that may include jazz guitar, bass, percussion,
brass and woodwinds, to
create the right sized ensemble for any occasion. The band's
regular venues include The New Zealander (Alameda), Shelby’s (Orinda), Joe’s (Lafayette)
and Rafters (San Rafael). The band's diverse other
venues include The San Francisco Orchid Society Evening
Gala, Deloche
Vinyards (Napa), Two-day Town Music Festival (Livermore)
Union Street Fair
(San Francisco), Armando's (Martinez).
The Lost Cats play jazz, both Latin and vintage,
and rhythm and blues. Get up and dance or just relax and
listen.
Jim says, “I play this kind of music because I like
the rhythm, it moves and I play with great people. I enjoy
when folks are tapping their feet, getting up and dancing,
swaying to the beat. I get to play some of my favorite songs—those
which have meant a lot to me in life and it's a thrill
to present them with my band.”
Please contact
Jim Passard to book the band:
Phone: 415·550·0490
Click to eMail Jim Passard: jpassard@comcast.net
Click
to download The Lost Cats Press packet.
The press
packet is a PDF for viewing or printing. It includes photographs
and information about some of the great musicians who play with
the band.
Click
to download The Lost Cats poster for your show.
The poster is a legal-size Microsoft Word document with type-in entries for
the location, date and time of your event.
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