GEORGEWHITTY 04.01.16
George Whitty
george@ gwhitty.com
310-488-9068 Keyboardist, Producer, Composer
Grammy-award winning 2010, he completed work on been touring the world as keyboardist George Whitty several tracks for Herbie keyboardist with David Sanborn, has spent 20 years playing on the Hancock's CD "The Imagine Chris Minh Doky & the Nomads road with the Brecker Brothers, Project", programming Herbie’s and his own trio Third Rail, David Sanborn, Richard Bona, live rig for the tour as well. In working on several CD projects, Chaka Khan, Sadao Watanabe, August, 2014, George joined conducting clinics and master and a dozen others, and his Herbie, Wayne Shorter, Carlos classes and teaching private resume as a session musician Santana, and Marcus Miller lessons around the world, and includes some of the best-selling playing at the Hollywood Bowl for enjoying life in the mountains records of all time: Santana's the “Concert for Peace”. As a outside Los Angeles with his two "Supernatural" (with Dave composer, he's written for boys. Matthews), Celine Dion's "Falling hundreds of episodes of television Into You" and "These are Special and several award-winning films, "The set kicked off with Times", and more than 100 other composing for a dozen shows 2003's "Comin' Home CDs. As a producer/keyboardist, from "The Road to Stardom with his Grammy-winning streak began Missy Elliot" to "As the World Baby," a spacey, with Chaka Khan's "The Woman I Turns", for whose music he was atmospheric groove that Am" in 1992 and extends through nominated for a 2006 Emmy provided a background to 3 award-winning releases with the award. He was awarded a 2014 showcase Sanborn's wildly Brecker Brothers, most recently Emmy for his work on “All My talented keyboardist and Randy Brecker's "34th and Lex", Children”. George recently organist, George Whitty." - 2004's Grammy-winner for finished the score to the feature Contemporary Jazz Record of the film, "The Getdown”, now in the The Buffalo (NY) News, Year, which he also mixed. In April rotation on Showtime, and has 05.21.07
1 "Sanborn has assembled an able quintet, though none more so than Whitty, whose style WHITTY and technique is at least as highly developed and multitextured as Sanborn's." - The Buffalo News, 05.21.07 GEORGE On YouTube:
“Do A Little Dance”: Third Rail - G Whitty, J Gwizdala, T Brechtlein Live in Cologne ”First Tune of the Set”: Brecker Bros. Band Reunion live at the Blue Note 2011
“Above and Below” The Brecker Brothers
CURRENT PROJECTS as of 04/2014:
Third Rail: George’s trio with Janek Gwizdala on bass and Tom Brechtlein on drums played its second European tour May 22 - June 8, 2014, and released its first CD, “Ignition: Live Across Europe” in May ‘14. Recorded on the band’s first tour of Europe in December 2013, the CD features tunes by George and Janek Gwizdala (bassist on the first tour). For info, click here.
Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter: Arranged several pieces by Herbie and Wayne for full orchestra. The first of these, “Sonrisa” premiered with the Calgary Philharmonic featuring Herbie Hancock, and continued on to the Oregon Symphony and the Seattle Symphony. Also programming keyboards, loops, and backing tracks for Herbie’s solo concert series.
Clinics, Master classes and Workshops: Recent workshops on improvisation, keyboard approaches, production and arranging include: Pop-Akademie, Mannheim, Germany and the Osnabrück Institut für Musik, Osnabrück, Germany. George is the Professor of Jazz Piano at the leading online music resource Artistworks.com
CMD and the Nomads: In their 10th year together, Chris Minh Doky, Dave Weckl, Dean Brown and George released their first live CD, “The Board Tapes” in March of 2014, and are touring extensively in Europe and Scandinavia in 2015 and 20156.
Randy Brecker: Currently playing with Randy Brecker and the Brecker Bros. Reunion Band, featuring Will Lee, Dave Weckl, Mike Stern, and Ada Rovatti. The band played a sold-out week at the Blue Note New York, and filmed a live DVD there on Saturday night, which George mixed. Also producing, arranging, mixing and playing on Randy’s forthcoming CD, featuring David Sanborn.
Drew Zingg: Wrote and arranged several pieces for the debut CD by long-time Steely Dan/Boz Scaggs guitarist Drew Zingg, and played all keyboards on the sessions, featuring Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs, Vinnie Colaiuta, Will Lee, and several other guest artists.
2 SELECTED RECENT CREDITS AND EXPERIENCE:
CD PROJECTS: WHITTY Ignition: Third Rail - keyboards, composer, producer, mix & mastering engineer. The Imagine Project: Herbie Hancock - keyboards, synthesizer orchestration. Supernatural: Carlos Santana and Dave Matthews - keyboards. 34th and Lex: Randy Brecker - Producer, Keyboards/programming, Mix Engineer. 2004 Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz GEORGE Album Falling Into You: Celine Dion - Keyboards, programming, arrangements Till The End Of Forever: Michael Bolton - Keyboards, Mix Engineer These Are Special Times: Celine Dion - Keyboards, Arranger The Woman I Am: Chaka Khan - Producer, Keyboards, Programming, Arranger. Grammy for Best R & B Vocal Performance Time Is Of The Essence: Michael Brecker - Producer. Nominated for 2001 Grammy for Best Instrumental Jazz Album Tales from the Hudson: Michael Brecker - Producer. 1996 Grammy for Best Instrumental Jazz Album Out of the Loop: The Brecker Brothers - Producer, keyboards, arranger. 1995 Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album
TOURS:
David Sanborn: 1999-current Randy Brecker: 1992-current Chris Minh Doky: 2002-current Sadao Watanabe feat. Richard Bona: 2001-2004 The Brecker Brothers: 1992-1997
FILM: 03.11 The Getdown - Scored this feature comedy film, currently playing on ShowTime 11.07 ASCAP's Harold Arlen Award for Orchestral scoring, out of 300+ applicants 07.07 Jinx! (dark comedy) directed by Adam Baran. Bought by the Independent Film Channel 07.07 ASCAP's Film and TV Scoring Workshop - 1 of 12 selected worldwide for this boot camp for the best young composers. 03.07 Cleansing (supernatural thriller) directed by Sean Kreminitskiy 01.07 One (suspense/action/drama) directed by Sean K. Won Gold Medal for Best Score, 2008 Park City Film Music Festival 10.06 Open Season (drama) directed by Joseph Caldwell. Nominated for Best Director, Best Drama, Hollywood DV Film Festival 06.06 Chi (action/martial arts) directed by Chris Vallone. Nominated for Best Action Sequence, Action on Film Festival 02.06 Bad Dream (dark comedy) directed by Eduardo Benchoam. Screened at HBO's NY Int'l Latino Film Festival 06.05 The Cask of Amontillado (horror/drama) directed by Sean K
Several dozen film and TV cues, most with video, are available here: lwww.gwhitty.com
TELEVISION:
The Road to Stardom with Missy Elliot - Reality series MTV's Stankervision - Sketch comedy series The Entertainer - Reality Series Science Times - "Living With Fire" - Discovery Channel Documentary As the World Turns - Nominated for an Emmy for my work on this show The Gorge Games - Adventure/extreme sports competition